BBC Television Shakespeare

1978    2h 30mDrama, Comedy
8.0
BBC adaptations of all 37 plays wholly and authoritatively credited to William Shakespeare.

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7 Seasons

  • Season 1
    Season 137 Episodes
  • Season 2
    Season 26 Episodes
  • Season 3
    Season 36 Episodes
  • Season 4
    Season 43 Episodes
  • Season 5
    Season 57 Episodes
  • Season 6
    Season 65 Episodes
  • Season 7
    Season 74 Episodes

Cast of BBC Television Shakespeare

  • Michael Byrne
  • Peter Benson
  • Robert Lindsay
  • Anthony Pedley
  • Michael HordernCapulet
  • Trevor Peacock
  • Bernard Hill
  • Charles GrayDuke of York
  • Julia Foster
  • Ron Cook
  • Mark Wing-Davey
  • Claire Bloom
  • Jon FinchHenry Bolingbroke
  • Frank Middlemass
  • Brenda Bruce
  • Vernon DobtcheffApothecary
  • Mike Gwilym
  • Tenniel Evans
  • Gordon Gostelow
  • Helen Mirren
  • David Gwillim
  • Annette Crosbie
  • Arthur Hewlett
  • Norman Rodway
  • Ian Charleson
  • Bryan Pringle
  • Esmond KnightOld Capulet
  • David Neal
  • John Benfield
  • Paul Jesson
  • Alec McCowen
  • Bruce Purchase
  • Rosemary Leach
  • Wendy HillerDuchess of York
  • Emrys James
  • Pippa Guard
  • Frank Williams
  • Brenda Blethyn
  • Anna Calder-Marshall
  • John Barron
  • Clive Swift
  • Patrick Allen
  • James Bolam
  • Clifford RoseBishop of Carlisle
  • Derek Farr
  • Patsy Smart
  • Jeremy Kemp
  • John Franklyn-Robbins
  • Joanna McCallum
  • Jane Lapotaire
  • David Burke
  • Jeffrey HollandDuke of Surrey
  • John Wells
  • Geoffrey Burridge
  • Hugh Quarshie
  • John Woodnutt
  • Darien Angadi
  • Anton Lesser
  • Geoffrey Chater
  • Valentine Dyall
  • Anthony Quayle
  • Graham Crowden
  • Celia JohnsonNurse
  • Julian Glover
  • Michele Dotrice
  • John Burgess
  • Elizabeth Spriggs
  • Penelope Wilton
  • Geoffrey Lumsden
  • John Bird
  • Nicholas Gecks
  • Noel Johnson
  • Tim Wylton
  • Jeremy Dimmick
  • Michael Kitchen
  • Tony Steedman
  • Tim Pigott-Smith
  • Richard Pasco
  • Kevin Stoney
  • Mary MorrisDuchess of Gloucester
  • John PaulMontague
  • Harry Waters, Jr.
  • Howard Goorney
  • John Sterland
  • Robert Brown
  • Derek JacobiKing Richard II
  • John GielgudJohn of Gaunt
  • John Nettleton
  • Richard OwensThomas Mowbray
  • Rob Edwards
  • Ian Puleston-Davies
  • Christopher StrauliBenvolio
  • Christopher Blake
  • Nicholas Young
  • Frank Thornton
  • Judy Davis
  • Kate Nelligan
  • David Rintoul
  • Nicky Henson
  • Phyllida Law
  • Edward Hardwicke
  • Bob Hoskins
  • Tony Church
  • Edward Petherbridge
  • David Daker
  • Jonathan Pryce
  • Frances Cuka
  • Eamon Boland
  • Alan DavidSolanio
  • Colin McCormack
  • Jonathan Scott-Taylor
  • Oliver Cotton
  • Keith Drinkel
  • David Dixon
  • Don Estelle
  • Alan RickmanTybalt
  • John Thaw
  • Barbara Rhoades
  • Prunella Scales
  • Andrew Burt
  • Kenneth Colley
  • Nickolas Grace
  • Joe Gladwin
  • Kenneth Haigh
  • Alan Howard
  • James Cossins
  • Maurice Roëves
  • Robert Eddison
  • John Grillo
  • Tessa Peake-Jones
  • Brian Glover
  • John Fortune
  • Lee Montague
  • Eileen Atkins
  • David Kelly
  • Christopher Guard
  • Nigel Terry
  • John Stride
  • Jacqueline HillLady Capulet
  • Ian Barritt
  • Eileen Way
  • Anna Quayle
  • David Prowse
  • Jonathan Hyde
  • John Clegg
  • Anthony Hopkins
  • Ralph Michael
  • Diana Dors
  • Susan Penhaligon
  • Benjamin Whitrow
  • Tony Doyle
  • John SavidentFriar John
  • Lynn Farleigh
  • Clive Dunn
  • Lalla Ward
  • Enn Reitel
  • John Castle
  • Thorley Walters
  • Paul Brooke
  • Jenny Agutter
  • Patrick RyecartRomeo
  • Adrienne Corri
  • Cyril Cusack
  • Tony Haygarth
  • Patrick Stewart
  • Colin Blakely
  • Gavin Richards
  • Mark Dignam
  • Andrew Sachs
  • Angus Lennie
  • Timothy West
  • Kenneth Cranham
  • Edward Hibbert
  • Charles KeatingDuke of Aumerle
  • John Welsh
  • Ben Kingsley
  • Sinéad Cusack
  • Cyril Luckham
  • Amanda Redman
  • Trevor Baxter
  • Jonathan Cecil
  • John McEnery
  • Ingrid Pitt
  • Nicol Williamson
  • Patricia Hayes
  • Richard Easton
  • David Waller
  • Ann Pennington
  • Douglas Wilmer
  • Michael Robbins
  • Cherie Lunghi
  • Frank Barrie
  • Jeremy BullochHenry Percy
  • Maureen Lipman
  • Roger Daltrey
  • Zoë Wanamaker
  • John Bailey
  • David Buck
  • Joss Ackland
  • Warren Clarke

 

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