Much Ado About Nothing
Much Ado About Nothing
Release: 1967-02-05
·Runtime: 130m
·★ 5.5
Comedy
TV Movie
Dame Maggie Smith stars in the 1967 screen version of Franco Zeffirelli's exuberant National Theatre production of Shakespeare's romantic comedy, in which young lovers Hero and Claudio conspire to make sharp-tongued rivals Beatrice and Benedick fall in love with each other.
Production Countries
United Kingdom
Production Companies
BBC TV
National Theatre
Cast
Michael Gambon
as Other Watchman
Frank Finlay
as Dogberry
Carolyn Jones
as Margaret
Graham Crowden
as Verges
Ron Pember
as Second Watchman
Ronald Pickup
as Don Pedro
John Hallam
as Other Watchman
Barry Evans
as Coffee Boy
John McEnery
as A Gentleman
Derek Jacobi
as Don John
David Ryall
as The Sexton
Christopher Timothy
as Server / Inanimate
Michael Byrne
as Claudio
Gerald James
as Leonato
Caroline John
as Hero
Denis DeMarne
as A Lord
Edward Petherbridge
as Conrade
David Hargreaves
as Borachio
Maggie Smith
as Beatrice
Robert Stephens
as Benedick