William Hobbs (choreographer)

William Hobbs (born January 29, 1939 in Hampstead, London) is a choreographer of staged fights. He has arranged some of the most notable scenes of cinematic fencing from the 1960s to the 2000s, including those in:

• H.M.S. Defiant (1962)
• Othello (1965)
• The Tragedy of Macbeth (1971)
• The Three Musketeers (1973)
• The Four Musketeers (1974)
• The Duellists (1977)
• Flash Gordon (1980)
• Excalibur (1981)
• Ladyhawke (1985)
• Brazil (1985)
• Willow (1988)
• Dangerous Liaisons (1988)
• Cyrano de Bergerac (1990)
• Hamlet (1990)
• Robin Hood (1991)
• Rob Roy (1995)
• Shakespeare in Love (1998)
• The Man in the Iron Mask (1998)
• The Count of Monte Cristo (2003)
• Casanova (2005)

Publications

• 1995, Fight Direction for Stage and Screen, Heinemann, ISBN 978-0-435-08680-0.

External links

• William Hobbs at the Internet Movie Database
• New York Times Article on William Hobbs work on the 2008 Broadway production of Hamlet