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
Linda Marsh
Ophelia
Eileen Herlie
Gertrude
George Voskovec
Player King
John Gielgud
Ghost (voice)
William Redfield
Guildenstern
George Rose
First Gravedigger
Barnard Hughes
Marcellus / Priest
Gerome Ragni
Attendant
Hume Cronyn
Polonius
John Cullum
Laertes
Richard Burton
Hamlet
Alfred Drake
Claudius
Philip Coolidge
Voltimand