Macbeth on screen
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William Shakespeare's Macbeth has been screened numerous times.
[edit] Performances
- Macbeth, 1908 film directed by J. Stuart Blackton.
- William V. Ranous as Macbeth
- Louise Carver as Lady Macbeth
- Macbeth (USA, 1916 B&W, Silent, imdb)
- John Emerson
- Herbert Beerbohm Tree as Macbeth
- Constance Collier as Lady Macbeth
- Macbeth (USA, 1948)
- Orson Welles director and as Macbeth
- Jeanette Nolan as Lady Macbeth
- Hallmark Hall of Fame Macbeth (USA, TV, 1954, imdb)
- Maurice Evans as Macbeth
- Judith Anderson as Lady Macbeth
- Hallmark Hall of Fame Macbeth (1960 imdb) emmy award winning remake, featuring an all-British supporting cast, and filmed on location in England and Scotland.
- Maurice Evans as Macbeth
- Judith Anderson as Lady Macbeth
- Macbeth (USA and UK, 1971)
- Roman Polanski director
- Jon Finch as Macbeth
- Francesca Annis as Lady Macbeth
- Macbeth (UK, 1978) film of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Other Place production.
- Trevor Nunn director
- Ian McKellen as Macbeth
- Judi Dench as Lady Macbeth
- Macbeth (UK, 1981)
- Arthur Allan Seidelman director
- Jeremy Brett as Macbeth
- Piper Laurie as Lady Macbeth
- BBC Television Shakespeare Macbeth (TV, UK, 1983) - Released in the USA as part of the "Complete Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare" series.
- Jack Gold director
- Nicol Williamson as Macbeth
- Jane Lapotaire as Lady Macbeth
- The Animated Shakespeare Macbeth (TV, Russia and UK, 1992)
- Nicolai Serebryakov director
- Brian Cox as the voice of Macbeth
- Zoe Wanamaker as the voice of Lady Macbeth
- Macbeth (UK, 1997)
- Jeremy Freeston and Brian Blessed directors
- Jason Connery as Macbeth
- Helen Baxendale as Lady Macbeth
- Macbeth (TV, UK, 1998)
- Michael Bogdanov director
- Sean Pertwee as Macbeth
- Greta Scacchi as Lady Macbeth
- Macbeth (Video, UK, 2001). Film of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Swan production.
- Greg Doran director
- Antony Sher as Macbeth
- Harriet Walter as Lady Macbeth
- Macbeth (Australia, 2006) film set against the backdrop of a violent gang war in Melbourne, Australia.
- Geoffrey Wright director
- Sam Worthington as Macbeth
- Victoria Hill as Lady Macbeth
[edit] Adaptations
- Joe MacBeth (UK, 1955) is a film noir resetting of the story as a gang war in Chicago
- Ken Hughes director
- Paul Douglas as Joe MacBeth
- Ruth Roman as Lily Macbeth
- Throne of Blood (aka Cobweb Castle or Kumonosu-jo) (Japan, 1957) is an adaptation of the Macbeth story to a Japanese setting.
- Akira Kurosawa director
- Toshiro Mifune
- Isuzu Yamada
- The first series of The Black Adder (TV, UK, 1983), written by Richard Curtis and Rowan Atkinson, is a parody of Shakespeare’s plays, particularly Macbeth, Richard III and Henry V.
- Men of Respect (USA, 1991) is a retelling of the Macbeth story as a Mafia power struggle in New York, in modern English, but closely tracking the original plot.
- William Reilly director
- John Turturro as Mike Battaglia
- Katherine Borowitz as Ruthie Battaglia
- Scotland, Pa. (USA, 2001) is set in and around a fast food restaurant in the 1970s.
- Billy Morrissette writer/director
- Maura Tierney as Pat McBeth
- James LeGros as Joe "Mac" McBeth
- Christopher Walken as Lieutenant McDuff
- Kevin Corrigan as Anthony "Banko" Banconi
- Andy Dick, Timothy "Speed" Levitch, and Amy Smart as the three bohemians
- Maqbool (India, 2004) is a Macbeth adaptation set in theMumbai underworld.
- Vishal Bharadwaj director
- Irfan Khan as Mian Maqbool (the Macbeth character)
- Tabu as Nimmi (the Lady Macbeth character)
- ShakespeaRe-Told Macbeth (UK, TV, 2005) is a modern adaptation by Peter Moffat, set in a Glasgow restaurant.
- James McAvoy as Joe Macbeth
- Keeley Hawes as Ella (the Lady Macbeth character)
