BBC Television Shakespeare (1978)
The BBC Television Shakespeare is a series of British television adaptations of the plays of William Shakespeare, created by Cedric Messina and produced by BBC Television. It was transmitted in the UK from 3 December 1978 to 27 April 1985 and spanned seven series. Development of the series began in 1975 when Messina saw that Glamis Castle would make a perfect location for an adaptation of Shakespeare's play As You Like It. On returning to London, he envisioned an entire series devoted exclusively to the dramatic works of Shakespeare. After encountering numerous problems trying to produce the series, Messina eventually pitched the idea to the BBC’s departmental heads and the series was greenlighted. The series as a whole received generally negative reviews from critics.
- Release Date: 1978-12-03
- Views: 1186
- Country: GB
- Language: English
- Runtime: 150
Alan Rickman
Anthony Hopkins
Patrick Stewart
Ben Kingsley
Julian Glover
Jonathan Pryce
Anton Lesser
Helen Mirren
Jenny Agutter
Michael Byrne
Maureen Lipman
Bernard Hill
Graham Crowden
Jonathan Hyde
Geoffrey Beevers
Michael Gough
David Warner
Sinéad Cusack
Derek Jacobi
Bob Hoskins
Kenneth Colley
Hugh Quarshie
Jeremy Bulloch
Tim Pigott-Smith
Donald Sumpter
Robert Stephens
Patricia Hayes
Charles Gray
Judy Davis
Joss Ackland
Kenneth Cranham
David Kelly
Charles Kay
John Gielgud
Tony Haygarth
Maurice Roëves
Juliet Stevenson
John Cleese
Zoë Wanamaker
Sarah Badel
Patrick Ryecart
Phyllida Law
David Buck
Christopher Guard
Adrienne Corri
Warren Mitchell
Warren Clarke
Peter Vaughan
Michael Kitchen
Nigel Hawthorne
John Rhys-Davies
Robert Hardy
John Thaw
Michael Hordern
Eric Porter
Nigel Davenport
Ron Cook
Michael Elphick
Andrew Sachs
Roger Daltrey
Claire Bloom
Eileen Atkins
Esmond Knight
David Burke
Laurence Naismith
Timothy West
Rosemary Leach
James Bolam
Penelope Wilton
John Woodvine
Patsy Kensit
Alun Armstrong
Geoffrey Palmer
Ralph Brown
Nicol Williamson
Vernon Dobtcheff
Gemma Jones
Edward Hardwicke
Ingrid Pitt
Paul Brooke
Susan Penhaligon
Robert Brown
Danny Webb
Anthony Quayle
John Nettles
Kate Nelligan
Margaret Tyzack
Diana Dors
Robin Sachs
Paul Daneman
Robert Lindsay
Amanda Redman
Jill Baker
Wendy Hiller
Douglas Wilmer
Cyril Cusack
Patrick Allen
Anthony Andrews
Clifford Rose
John Castle
Richard Griffiths
Jeffrey Holland
Colin Blakely
Ronald Pickup
Alan Howard
Derek Farr
Brian Glover
Angus Lennie
John Barron
Frank Thornton
Enn Reitel
Tim Wylton
Timothy Bateson
Neil McCarthy
Charles Keating
Bryan Marshall
Tessa Peake-Jones
Thorley Walters
Brenda Blethyn
John Welsh
Anna Calder-Marshall
Phil Daniels
Alec McCowen
Julia Foster
Robert Morris
Michael Pennington
Jeremy Kemp
David Daker
Cherie Lunghi
Norman Rodway
Prunella Scales
Joan Hickson
Jane Lapotaire
Brian Deacon
Edward Hibbert
John Bird
Jon Finch
Mike Gwilym
Marius Goring
John Savident
John Fortune
Virginia McKenna
Nicky Henson
David Prowse
Richard Johnson
Ian Charleson
Clive Swift
James Cossins
John Grillo
Annette Crosbie
David Rintoul
Jacqueline Pearce
David Robb
John Abineri
Anna Quayle
Christopher Blake
Brenda Bruce
John McEnery
Geoffrey Burridge
Paul Jesson
Mary Morris
Lalla Ward
Keith Michell
John Moulder-Brown
Michele Dotrice
Arnold Diamond
Kenneth Haigh
Jonathan Cecil
Alan Bennett
Tony Doyle
Clive Francis
Oliver Cotton
Nigel Terry
Harry Waters, Jr.
Valentine Dyall
Clive Dunn
Tony Steedman
Tenniel Evans
Leonard Rossiter
John Stride
Barbara Rhoades
Richard Pasco
Barbara Kellerman
Frank Middlemass
Celia Johnson
Dominic Jephcott
Anthony Hopkins
Ralph Michael
Lynn Farleigh
Arthur Hewlett
William Simons
Angharad Rees
Trevor Peacock
Jenny Laird
James Hazeldine
Jonathan Scott-Taylor
Lee Montague
Michael Bryant
Gavin Richards
Ian Hogg
Ronnie Stevens
Richard Morant
Michael Robbins
Bryan Pringle
Benjamin Whitrow
Rebecca Saire
Nickolas Grace
Alan David
Patsy Smart
Edward Petherbridge
Peter Jeffrey
Robert Gwilym
Andrew MacLachlan
John Nettleton
Cyril Luckham
Joe Gladwin
Leon Lissek
John Woodnutt
Kevin Stoney
Frances Cuka
John Clegg
Yolande Palfrey
Charles Lloyd Pack
Susan Jameson
Eamon Boland
David Dixon
Richard Owens
Keith Drinkel
Andrew Burt
John Franklyn-Robbins
Richard O'Callaghan
Trevor Baxter
Richard Wordsworth
Christopher Ettridge
Bruce Purchase
Don Estelle
Ellis Jones
Mark Wing-Davey
Geoffrey Chater
Colin McCormack
Petra Markham
David Neal
Danny Schiller
Christopher Strauli
Nicholas Young
Victoria Plucknett
Eileen Way
Peter Whitbread
Katharine Levy
Estelle Kohler
Howard Goorney
