Hamlet
Richard Burton's Hamlet from the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre
A stage production of Hamlet filmed at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre in New York. It was deliberately staged in the style of a "dress rehearsal", but performed in front of a live audience.
Director John Gielgud
Cast
Barnard Hughes
Marcellus / Priest
Linda Marsh
Ophelia
John Cullum
Laertes
Gerome Ragni
Attendant
Hume Cronyn
Polonius
George Rose
First Gravedigger
George Voskovec
Player King
Alfred Drake
Claudius
Philip Coolidge
Voltimand
John Gielgud
Ghost (voice)
Richard Burton
Hamlet
Eileen Herlie
Gertrude
William Redfield
Guildenstern