List of filmed works by William Shakespeare

With over 420 film adaptations of his works that are more or less textual, the English poet and playwright William Shakespeare is the most filmed author in history. Of his numerous stage plays, the tragedies were again most often implemented on film, with Hamlet in first place with over 75 versions and Romeo and Juliet in second place with more than fifty film adaptations.

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tragedies

The tragedies of Shakespeare, and to whom. a. the plays Romeo and Juliet , Hamlet, Prince of Denmark and Othello, the Moor of Venice are among the most famous works of the English poet. Five, and thus almost half of all tragedies ascribed to him, were published in the first complete edition only seven years after the author's death in 1623 : Macbeth , Julius Caesar , Coriolanus , Timon of Athens and Antony and Cleopatra .

Antony and Cleopatra

year	Movie title	Country of production	Director	actor	Remarks
1908	Antony and Cleopatra	United States	James Stuart Blackton , Charles Kent
1913	Marcantonio e Cleopatra	Italy	Enrico Guazzoni	Amleto Novelli (Antonius), Gianna Terribili-Gonzales (Cleopatra), Ignazio Lupi (Octavian)
1972	Antony and Cleopatra	United Kingdom Switzerland Spain	Charlton Heston	Charlton Heston (Antonius), Hildegarde Neil (Cleopatra), Eric Porter (Enobarbus), John Castle (Octavian)	Heston played Mark Antony in a total of three Shakespeare films, two of them in films by Julius Caesar (1950 and 1970).
1981	Antony and Cleopatra	United Kingdom United States	Jonathan Miller	Colin Blakely (Antonius), Jane Lapotaire (Cleopatra), Emrys James (Enobarbus), Ian Charleson (Octavian)	Film in the BBC Television Shakespeare series (1978-1985).

Coriolanus

year	Movie title	Country of production	Director	actor	Remarks
1979	Coriolanus	United States	Wilford Leach	Morgan Freeman (Coriolanus), Earle Hyman (Cominius), CCH Pounder (Valeria)
1984	The Tragedy of Coriolanus	United Kingdom United States	Elijah Moshinsky	Alan Howard (Coriolanus), Patrick Godfrey (Cominius), Joss Ackland (Menenius)	Director Elijah Moshinsky shot five of the 37 Shakespeare films in the BBC Television Shakespeare series.
2011	Coriolanus	United Kingdom	Ralph Fiennes	Ralph Fiennes (Coriolanus), Gerard Butler (Aufidius), Vanessa Redgrave (Volumnia)	Gerard Butler , whose acting career began in 1996 with a theatrical appearance in the same play, plays the antagonist of Coriolanus in Fiennes' directorial debut. Filming began in March 2010.

Hamlet

year	Movie title	Country of production	Director	actor	Remarks
1907	Hamlet	France	Georges Méliès	Georges Méliès (Hamlet)
1908	Hamlet	France	Henri Desfontaines	Jacques Grétillat (Hamlet)
1909	Hamlet	France	Gérard Bourgeois	Jean Mounet-Sully (Hamlet)
1910	Hamlet	United Kingdom	William George Barker	Charles Raymond (Hamlet)
1910	Amleto	Italy	Mario Caserini	Dante Cappelli (Hamlet)
1910	Hamlet	Denmark	August Blom	Alwin Neuss (Hamlet), Emilie Sannom (Ophelia), Aage Hertel (Claudius), Ella La Cour (Gertrude), Einar Zangenberg (Laertes), Oscar Langkilde (Horatio)
1913	Hamlet	United Kingdom	Edward Hay Plumb	Johnston Forbes-Robertson (Hamlet), Gertrude Elliot (Ophelia)
1917	Amleto	Italy	Eleuterio Rodolfi	Ruggero Ruggeri (Hamlet), Helena Makowska (Ophelia)
1921	Hamlet	German Empire	Svend Gade , Heinz Schall	Asta Nielsen (Hamlet), Eduard v. Winterstein (Claudius), Hans Junkermann (Polonius)	Silent film; Prince Hamlet is played by a woman, Asta Nielsen from Denmark .
1935	Khoon Ka Khoon	British India	Sohrab modes	Sohrab Modi (Hamlet), Naseem Banu (Ophelia), Shamshadbai (Gertrude)	Urdu adaptation of Hamlet by Mehdi Ahsan
1948	Hamlet	United Kingdom	Laurence Olivier	Laurence Olivier (Hamlet), Basil Sydney (Claudius), Jean Simmons (Ophelia)	The roles of Rosenkranz, Güldenstern and Fortinbras were dispensed with; was awarded an Oscar in 1949 for “Best Film”.
1960	Hono-o no shiro	Japan	Tai Kato	Hashizo Okawa (Hamlet)	Japanese film adaptation of Hamlet by the Toei Company , which relocates the plot of the play to feudal Japan.
1960	The rest is silence	BR Germany	Helmut Käutner	Hardy Krüger (John H. Claudius), Peter van Eyck (Paul Claudius), Ingrid Andree (Fee von Pohl)	Modernizing the Hamlet story as a political drama set in the United States in the 1950s.
1964	Hamlet	Soviet Union	Grigory Kosinsev	Innokenti Smoktunowski (Hamlet), Michail Naswanow (Claudius), Anastasia Wertinskaja (Ophelia)	Award-winning film at home and abroad; the screenplay is based on the Russian translation of the play provided by Boris Pasternak , the film music was composed by Dmitri Shostakovich .
1964	Hamlet	United States	John Gielgud	Richard Burton (Hamlet), Alfred Drake (Claudius), Linda Marsh (Ophelia)
1969	Hamlet	United States	Tony Richardson	Nicol Williamson (Hamlet), Anthony Hopkins (Claudius), Marianne Faithfull (Ophelia)
1976	Hamlet	United Kingdom	Celestino Coronado	Tony Meyer (Hamlet), Helen Mirren (Ophelia / Gertrude), Barry Stanton (Claudius), Quentin Crisp (Polonius)	The film is only 65 minutes long and is markedly surreal.
1980	Hamlet	United Kingdom United States	Rodney Bennett	Derek Jacobi (Hamlet), Patrick Stewart (Claudius), Lalla Ward (Ophelia)	Film in the BBC Television Shakespeare series (1978-1985).
1987	Hamlet goes business	Finland	Aki Kaurismäki	Pirkka-Pekka Petelius (Hamlet), Esko Salminen (Klaus, d. I. Claudius), Kati Outinen (Ophelia), Esko Nikkari (Polonius)	The action is set in Finland in the 20th century. The Danish royal family appears in Kaurismäki's adaptation as a Finnish industrial dynasty.
1990	Hamlet	United States United Kingdom Italy	Franco Zeffirelli	Mel Gibson (Hamlet), Alan Bates (Claudius), Glenn Close (Gertrude), Ian Holm (Polonius)	As in Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet , the dialogues were adopted unchanged.
1996	Hamlet	United Kingdom	Kenneth Branagh	Kenneth Branagh (Hamlet), Derek Jacobi (Claudius), Kate Winslet (Ophelia)	With a running time of more than 240 minutes the most complete Hamlet film adaptation.
2000	Hamlet	United States	Michael Almereyda	Ethan Hawke (Hamlet), Kyle MacLachlan (Claudius), Diane Venora (Gertrude), Bill Murray (Polonius)	The action took place in New York on the 20th / 21st Century (among other things, the Kingdom of Denmark became Denmark Corporation ).

Julius Caesar

year	Movie title	Country of production	Director	actor	Remarks
1908	Julius Caesar	United States	James Stuart Blackton , William V. Ranous	Charles Kent (Julius Caesar), Earle Williams (Brutus), William V. Ranous (Cassius)
1950	Julius Caesar	United States	David Bradley	Harold Tasker (Julius Caesar), Charlton Heston (Antonius), David Bradley (Brutus), Grosvenor Glenn (Cassius)
1953	Julius Caesar	United States	Joseph L. Mankiewicz	Louis Calhern (Julius Caesar), Marlon Brando (Antonius), James Mason (Brutus), John Gielgud (Cassius)
1970	Julius Caesar	United Kingdom	Stuart Burge	John Gielgud (Julius Caesar), Charlton Heston (Antonius), Jason Robards (Brutus), Richard Johnson (Cassius)
1979	Julius Caesar	United Kingdom United States	Herbert Wise	Charles Gray (Julius Caesar), Keith Michell (Antonius), Richard Pasco (Brutus), David Collings (Cassius)	Film in the BBC Television Shakespeare series (1978-1985).

King Lear

year	Movie title	Country of production	Director	actor	Remarks
1909	King Lear	United States	James Stuart Blackton , William V. Ranous	William V. Ranous (King Lear)
1910	Re Lear	Italy	Gerolamo Lo Savio	Ermete Novelli (King Lear) Francesca Bertini (Cordelia)
1969	King Lear	Soviet Union	Grigory Kosinsev	Jüri Järvet (King Lear), Elza Radzina (Goneril), Galina Woltschek (Regan), Valentina Schendrikowa (Cordelia)	Boris Pasternak translated the Shakespeare play (as did Hamlet and Macbeth ) into Russian and thus provided the template for the script; Dmitri Shostakovich composed the film music.
1971	King Lear	United Kingdom of Denmark	Peter Brook	Paul Scofield (King Lear), Irene Worth (Goneril), Susan Engel (Regan), Anne-Lise Gabold (Cordelia)
1982	King Lear	United Kingdom United States	Jonathan Miller	Michael Hordern (King Lear), Gillian Barge (Goneril), Penelope Wilton (Regan), Brenda Blethyn (Cordelia)	Director Jonathan Miller shot six, and thus most of the 37 Shakespeare films in the BBC Television Shakespeare series alongside Jane Howell .
1983	King Lear	United Kingdom	Michael Elliott	Laurence Olivier (King Lear), Dorothy Tutin (Goneril), Diana Rigg (Regan), Anna Calder-Marshall (Cordelia)
1985	Ran	Japan	Akira Kurosawa	Tatsuya Nakadai (Hidetora Ichimonji, d. I. King Lear)	The action is set in 16th century Japan; according to Kurosawa, it is not a direct adaptation of the Lear , but many elements have been adopted.
2002	King of Texas	United States	Uli Edel	Patrick Stewart (Lear), Marcia Gay Harden (Susannah, d. I. Goneril), Lauren Holly (Rebecca, d. I. Regan), Julie Cox (Claudia, d. I. Cordelia)	The action was set in 19th century Texas ; Lear appears as a large landowner.

Macbeth

year	Movie title	Country of production	Director	actor	Remarks
1908	Macbeth	United States	James Stuart Blackton	William V. Ranous (Macbeth), Louise Carver (Lady Macbeth), Paul Panzer (Macduff), Charles Kent (Duncan)
1909	Macbeth	France	André Calmettes	Paul Mounet (Macbeth), Jeanne Delvair (Lady Macbeth)
1909	Macbeth	Italy	Mario Caserini	Dante Capelli (Macbeth), Maria Caserini (Lady Macbeth)
1913	Macbeth	Germany	Arthur Bourchier	Arthur Bourchier (Macbeth), Violet Vanbrugh (Lady Macbeth)
1916	Macbeth	United States	John Emerson	Herbert Beerbohm Tree (Macbeth), Constance Collier (Lady Macbeth), Wilfred Lucas (Macduff), Spottiswoode Aitken (Duncan), Ralph Lewis (Banquo), Mary Alden (Lady Macduff)
1948	Macbeth - The Kingslayer	United States	Orson Welles	Orson Welles (Macbeth), Jeanette Nolan (Lady Macbeth), Dan O'Herlihy (Macduff)
1957	The castle in the cobweb forest	Japan	Akira Kurosawa	Toshirō Mifune (Taketori Washizu, d. I. Macbeth), Isuzu Yamada (Asaji, d. I. Lady Macbeth)	The plot has been moved to medieval Japan. The figure of Macduff is omitted.
1971	Macbeth	United States United Kingdom	Roman Polanski	Jon Finch (Macbeth), Francesca Annis (Lady Macbeth), Terence Bayler (Macduff)	In Polański's version, contrary to tradition, Macbeth and his wife are played by very young actors.
1983	Macbeth	United Kingdom United States	Jack Gold	Nicol Williamson (Macbeth), Jane Lapotaire (Lady Macbeth), Tony Doyle (Macduff)	Film in the BBC Television Shakespeare series (1978-1985).
1987	Macbeth	France FR Germany	Claude d'Anna	Shirley Verrett (Lady Macbeth), Leo Nucci (Macbeth)	Production by the Teatro Comunale Bologna
2003	Maqbool	India	Vishal Bharadwaj	Irrfan Khan (Maqbool, d. I. Macbeth), Tabu (Nimmi, d. I. Lady Macbeth), Ankur Vikal (Riyaz Boti, d. I. Macduff)	Macbeth adaptation moved to today's India . Maqbool (i.e. Macbeth) appears as a Mumbai Mafia boss.
2006	Macbeth	Australia	Geoffrey Wright	Sam Worthington (Macbeth), Victoria Hill (Lady Macbeth)	A modern adaptation in the original language, relocated to contemporary Australian Melbourne.
2015	Macbeth	United Kingdom United States France	Justin Kurzel	Michael Fassbender (Macbeth), Marion Cotillard (Lady Macbeth)

Othello

year	Movie title	Country of production	Director	actor	Remarks
1908	Othello	United States	William V. Ranous	William V. Ranous (Othello), Julia Swayne Gordon (Desdemona), Hector Dion (Iago), Paul Panzer (Cassio), John G. Adolfi (Roderigo)
1922	Othello	Germany	Dimitri Buchowetzki	Emil Jannings (Othello), Ica von Lenkeffy (Desdemona), Werner Krauss (Jago)
1952	Orson Welles' Othello	United States Italy France Morocco	Orson Welles	Orson Welles (Othello), Suzanne Cloutier (Desdemona), Micheál MacLiammóir (Iago)	The Moor Othello is played by Orson Welles , who has a dark make-up and who is also the director.
1955	Othello	Soviet Union	Sergei Yutkevich	Sergej Bondarchuk (Othello), Irina Skobzewa (Desdemona), Andrej Popow (Iago)
1965	Othello	United Kingdom	Stuart Burge	Laurence Olivier (Othello), Maggie Smith (Desdemona), Frank Finlay (Iago)
1968	Othello	BR Germany	Franz Peter Wirth	Wolfgang Reichmann (Othello), Heidelinde Weis (Desdemona)
1969	Othello	BR Germany	Georg F. Mielke		Screenplay by Walter Felsenstein .
1981	Othello	United Kingdom	Jonathan Miller	Anthony Hopkins (Othello), Penelope Wilton (Desdemona), Bob Hoskins (Iago)	Film in the BBC Television Shakespeare series (1978-1985).
1986	Otello	Italy United States	Franco Zeffirelli	Plácido Domingo (Othello), Katia Ricciarelli (Desdemona), Justino Díaz (Iago)	Film adaptation of the opera of the same name by Giuseppe Verdi, which is based on Shakespeare's tragedy and premiered in 1887.
1990	Othello	United Kingdom	Trevor Nunn	Willard White (Othello), Imogen Stubbs (Desdemona), Ian McKellen (Iago)
1995	Othello	United States United Kingdom	Oliver Parker	Laurence Fishburne (Othello), Irène Jacob (Desdemona), Kenneth Branagh (Jago)
2001	Othello	United Kingdom United States Canada	Geoffrey Sax	Eamonn Walker (John Othello, d. I. Othello), Keeley Hawes (Dessie Brabant, d. I. Desdemona), Christopher Eccleston (Ben Iago, d. I. Iago)
2001	O - trust, seduction, betrayal	United States	Tim Blake Nelson	Mekhi Phifer (Odin James, d. I. Othello), Julia Stiles (Desi Brable, d. I. Desdemona), Josh Hartnett (Hugo Goulding, d. I. Iago)	Modern variation of the piece: The film is set in 2000, at a high school in the southern United States; Names have been changed.
2006	Omkara	India	Vishal Bharadwaj	Ajay Devgan (Omkara, d. I. Othello), Kareena Kapoor (Dolly, d. I. Desdemona), Saif Ali Khan (Ishwar 'Langda' Tyagi, d. I. Iago)	Modern variation of the piece: the film takes place in a gangster milieu in today's India; Names have been changed.

Romeo and Juliet

year	Movie title	Country of production	Director	actor	Remarks
1908	Romeo and Juliet	United States	James Stuart Blackton	Paul Panzer (Romeo), Florence Lawrence (Juliet)
1912	Romeo and Juliet	Italy	Ugo Falena	Gustavo Serena (Romeo), Francesca Bertini (Juliet)
1936	Romeo and Juliet	United States	George Cukor	Leslie Howard (Romeo), Norma Shearer (Juliet), John Barrymore (Mercutio)	Romeo actor Howard and Juliet actress Shearer were z. At the time of filming, they were already over 40 or 30 years old and therefore significantly older than the lovers in the play.
1954	Romeo and Juliet	United Kingdom of Italy	Renato Castellani	Laurence Harvey (Romeo), Susan Shentall (Juliet)
1955	The last dance of Romeo and Juliet	Soviet Union	Leo Oskarowitsch Arnstam	Yuri Zhdanov (Romeo), Galina Ulanowa (Juliet)
1968	Romeo and Juliet	United Kingdom of Italy	Franco Zeffirelli	Leonard Whiting (Romeo), Olivia Hussey (Juliet)	Award-winning film: received u. a. 1969 the Oscar for “ Best Camera ” and “ Best Costume Design ”.
1978	Romeo and Juliet	United Kingdom	Alvin Rakoff	Patrick Ryecart (Romeo), Rebecca Saire (Juliet)	The first Shakespeare film adaptation of the 37-part BBC Television Shakespeare project; Julia is played by the then 14-year-old young actress Rebecca Saire .
1996	Romeo + Juliet	United States	Baz Luhrmann	Leonardo DiCaprio (Romeo), Claire Danes (Juliet)	The plot was shifted to the present (20th / 21st century) and enriched with pop culture elements.

Timon of Athens

year	Movie title	Country of production	Director	actor	Remarks
1981	Timon of Athens	United Kingdom	Jonathan Miller	Jonathan Pryce (Timon), John Shrapnel (Alkibiades), Norman Rodway (Apemantus)	Film in the BBC Television Shakespeare series (1978-1985).

Titus Andronicus

year	Movie title	Country of production	Director	actor	Remarks
1985	Titus Andronicus	United Kingdom	Jane Howell	Trevor Peacock (Titus), Eileen Atkins (Tamora), Michael Crompton (Chiron), Neil McCaul (Demetrius)	The last film in the 37-part Shakespeare television series of the BBC , which began in 1978 with a film adaptation of Romeo and Juliet .
1999	Titus	United States Italy	Julie Taymor	Anthony Hopkins (Titus), Jessica Lange (Tamora), Jonathan R. Meyers (Chiron), Matthew Rhys (Demetrius)

Comedies

Comedies take up much of Shakespeare's work. In addition to plays such as The Merchant of Venice , Much Ado About Nothing and A Midsummer Night's Dream, they also include more difficult to classify, sometimes tragic dramas (so-called problem plays ) such as B. Troilus and Cressida and all's well that ends well . The third category within Shakespeare's comedies are the romances (including the late works Cymbeline and The Tempest ).

Cymbeline

year	Movie title	Country of production	Director	actor	Remarks
1913	Cymbeline	United States	Lucius Henderson	Florence La Badie (Imogen), James Cruze (Leonatus), William Garwood (Iachimo), William Russell (King Cymbeline)
1925	Cymbeline	Germany	Ludwig Berger
1982	Cymbeline	United Kingdom	Elijah Moshinsky	Richard Johnson (Cymbeline), Claire Bloom (Queen), Helen Mirren (Imogen), Robert Lindsay (Iachimo), Hugh Thomas (Cornelius)
2000	Cymbelin	Germany	Dieter Dorn	Irene Clarin (Queen), Sunnyi Melles , Gisela Stein

The merchant of Venice

year	Movie title	Country of production	Director	actor	Remarks
1908	The Merchant of Venice	United States	James Stuart Blackton	Julia Swayne Gordon (Portia), William V. Ranous (Shylock), Florence Turner (Jessica)
1911	Il Mercante di Venezia	Italy	Gerolamo Lo Savio	Ermete Novelli (Shylock), Francesca Bertini (Jessica), Olga Giannini Novelli (Portia)
1914	The merchant of Venice	United States	Phillips Smalley , Lois Weber	Phillips Smalley (Shylock), Lois Weber (Antonio), Douglas Gerrard (Bassanio)	Silent film; first feature film in film history to be directed by a woman.
1923	The merchant of Venice	German Empire	Peter Paul Felner	Werner Krauß (Shylock), Carl Ebert (Antonio), Harry Liedtke (Bassanio)
1980	The Merchant of Venice	United Kingdom	Jack Gold	Warren Mitchell (Shylock), John Franklyn-Robbins (Antonio), John Nettles (Bassanio)	In addition to The Merchant of Venice , Jack Gold also shot a 1983 version of Macbeth for the BBC Television Shakespeare series .
2004	The merchant of Venice	United States Italy Luxembourg United Kingdom	Michael Radford	Al Pacino (Shylock), Jeremy Irons (Antonio), Joseph Fiennes (Bassanio)

The comedy of errors

year	Movie title	Country of production	Director	actor	Remarks
1965	Comedy of errors	BR Germany	Hans-Dieter Schwarze	Claus Biederstaedt (Antipholus v. S.), Erik Schumann (Antipholus v. E.), Manfred Lichtenfeld (Dromio v. S.), Klaus Schwarzkopf (Dromio v. E.)
1983	The Comedy of Errors	United Kingdom United States	James Cellan Jones	Cyril Cusack (Ageon), Michael Kitchen (Antipholus Brothers), Roger Daltrey (Dromio Brothers)	Film in the BBC Television Shakespeare series (1978-1985).

The merry women of Windsor

year	Movie title	Country of production	Director	actor	Remarks
1950	The merry women of Windsor	German Democratic Republic	Georg Wildhagen	Paul Esser (Falstaff), Sonja Ziemann (Mrs. Fluth), Camilla Spira (Mrs. Page)	Music film based on Shakespeare's comedy The Merry Wives of Windsor and Otto Nicolai 's opera of the same name .
1982	The Merry Wives of Windsor	United Kingdom	David Hugh Jones	Richard Griffiths (Falstaff), Judy Davis (Mrs. Fluth), Prunella Scales (Mrs. Page)	Film in the BBC Television Shakespeare series (1978-1985).

The storm

year	Movie title	Country of production	Director	actor	Remarks
1905	The Tempest	United Kingdom		Basil Gill (Ferdinand), Lyn Harding (Antonio), Viola Tree (Ariel)
1908	The Tempest	United Kingdom	Percy Stow
1911	The Tempest	United States	Edwin Thanhouser	Ed Genung (Ferdinand), Florence La Badie (Miranda)
1956	Alert in space (Forbidden Planet)	United States	Fred M. Wilcox	Walter Pidgeon (Dr. Morbius), Anne Francis (Altaira Morbius), Leslie Nielsen (Captain Adams)	Idiosyncratic science fiction interpretation of Shakespeare's "The Tempest"
1960	The storm	United States	George Schaefer	Maurice Evans (Prospero), Lee Remick (Miranda), Richard Burton (Caliban),
1979	The storm	United Kingdom	Derek Jarman	Heathcote Williams (Prospero), Toyah Willcox (Miranda), Jack Birkett (Caliban)
1991	Prospero's books	United Kingdom	Peter Greenaway	John Gielgud (Prospero), Isabelle Pasco (Miranda), Michael Clark (Caliban)	Prospero actor John Gielgud planned to film the material as early as the 1960s (with Orson Welles as director, among others ), but funding for the project failed.
2010	The Tempest	United States	Julie Taymor	Helen Mirren (Prospera), Felicity Jones (Miranda), Djimon Hounsou (Caliban), Ben Whishaw (Ariel), Alfred Molina (Stephano)

The Taming of the Shrew

year	Movie title	Country of production	Director	actor	Remarks
1929	The Taming of the Shrew	United States	Sam Taylor	Mary Pickford (Katharina), Douglas Fairbanks (Petruchio), Clyde Cook (Grumio)
1967	The Taming of the Shrew	United States Italy	Franco Zeffirelli	Elizabeth Taylor (Katharina), Richard Burton (Petruchio), Michael York (Lucentio)	The dialogues of Lucentios and Biancas have been shortened in order to better characterize Katharinas and Petruchios.
1980	The tamed unruly	Italy	Franco Castellano , Giuseppe Moccia	Ornella Muti (Lisa Silvestri), Adriano Celentano (Elia Codogno)

A midsummer night's dream

year	Movie title	Country of production	Director	actor	Remarks
1909	A Midsummer Night's Dream	United States	Charles Kent , James Stuart Blackton	William V. Ranous (Niklaus Zettel), Florence Turner (Titania), Walter Ackerman (Demetrius), Maurice Costello (Lysander), Gladys Hulette (Puck), Dolores Costello (Fee), Helene Costello (Fee)
1925	A midsummer night's dream	German Empire	Hans Neumann	Werner Krauß (Niklaus Zettel), Theodor Becker (Theseus), Lori Leux (Titania), Charlotte Ander (Hermia)
1935	A midsummer night's dream	United States	Max Reinhardt , William Dieterle	James Cagney (Niklaus Zettel), Olivia de Havilland (Hermia), Mickey Rooney (Puck)	The film was banned in Nazi Germany due to the German-Jewish origins of the director Reinhardt and the Mendelssohn film music .
1968	A midsummer night's dream	United Kingdom	Peter Hall	Derek Godfrey (Theseus), Judi Dench (Titania), Helen Mirren (Hermia), Ian Holm (Puck)
1981	A Midsummer Night's Dream	United Kingdom	Elijah Moshinsky	Brian Glover (Nicklaus Zettel), Nigel Davenport (Theseus), Helen Mirren (Titania), Phil Daniels (Puck)	Film in the BBC Television Shakespeare series (1978-1985).
1982	A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy (A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy)	United States	Woody Allen	Woody Allen (Andrew Hobbs), Mia Farrow (Ariel Weymouth), José Ferrer (Leopold Sturgis), Julie Hagerty (Dulcy)
1983	A midsummer night's dream	Italy	Gabriele Salvatores	Alberto Lionello (Theseus), Erika Blanc (Ippolita)	Rock musical
1996	A midsummer night's dream	United Kingdom	Adrian Noble	Alex Jennings (Theseus, Oberon), Lindsay Duncan (Titania, Hippolyta), Finbar Lynch (Puck), Kevin Doyle (Demetrius)
1999	A midsummer night's dream	United States United Kingdom Italy	Michael Hoffman	Kevin Kline (Niklaus Zettel), Michelle Pfeiffer (Titania), Stanley Tucci (Puck)

A winterstory

year	Movie title	Country of production	Director	actor	Remarks
1981	The Winter's Tale	United Kingdom	Jane Howell	Jeremy Kemp (Leontes), Anna Calder-Marshall (Hermione), Robert Stephens (Polixenes)	Director Jane Howell shot six, and alongside Jonathan Miller, most of the 37 Shakespeare films in the BBC Television Shakespeare series.

All's well that ends well

year	Movie title	Country of production	Director	actor	Remarks
1981	All's Well That Ends Well	United Kingdom	Elijah Moshinsky	Ian Charleson (Bertram), Angela Down (Helena), Donald Sinden (King of France)	Film in the BBC Television Shakespeare series (1978-1985).

Measure for measure

year	Movie title	Country of production	Director	actor	Remarks
1958	Measure for measure	BR Germany	Ludwig Berger	Alexander Kerst (Duke Vincentio), Herbert Tiede (Angelo), Ina Halley (Isabella)
1979	Measure for Measure	United Kingdom	Desmond Davis	Kenneth Colley (Duke Vincentio), Tim Pigott-Smith (Angelo), Kate Nelligan (Isabella)	Film in the BBC Television Shakespeare series (1978-1985).

Troilus and Cressida

year	Movie title	Country of production	Director	actor	Remarks
1981	Troilus and Cressida	United Kingdom	Jonathan Miller	Anton Lesser (Troilus), Suzanne Burden (Cressida), Charles Gray (Pandarus)	Film in the BBC Television Shakespeare series (1978-1985).

Lost labor of love

year	Movie title	Country of production	Director	actor	Remarks
1985	Love's Labor's Lost	United Kingdom	Elijah Moshinsky	Jonathan Kent (King Ferdinand of Navarra), Maureen Lipman (Princess of France), Jenny Agutter (Rosaline)	Film in the BBC Television Shakespeare series (1978-1985).
2000	Lost labor of love	United States United Kingdom Canada	Kenneth Branagh	Alessandro Nivola (King Ferdinand of Navarra), Alicia Silverstone (Princess of France), Natascha McElhone (Rosaline)	Kenneth Branagh , who has already appeared in numerous Shakespeare film adaptations, took on both the direction and the role of Berowne in this musical-like film adaptation.

A lot of noise about nothing

year	Movie title	Country of production	Director	actor	Remarks
1964	A lot of noise about nothing	German Democratic Republic	Martin Hellberg	Christel Bodenstein (Beatrice), Martin Flörchinger (Leonato), Arno Wyzniewski (Claudio)
1983	Lyubovju sa Lyubov	Soviet Union	Tatiana Berezonzeva	Larissa Udowitschenko (Beatrice), Aristarch Liwanow (Don Juan), Algis Arlauskas (Claudio)
1993	A lot of noise about nothing	United States United Kingdom	Kenneth Branagh	Kenneth Branagh (Benedikt), Keanu Reeves (Don Juan), Emma Thompson (Beatrice), Denzel Washington (Don Pedro von Aragon)
2012	A lot of noise about nothing	United States	Joss Whedon	Alexis Denisof (Benedikt), Sean Maher (Don Juan), Amy Acker (Beatrice), Reed Diamond (Don Pedro von Aragon)

What you want

year	Movie title	Country of production	Director	actor	Remarks
1910	Twelfth Night	United States	Charles Kent Eugene Mullin	Florence Turner (viola), Charles Kent (Malvolio), Julia Swayne Gordon (Olivia), Tefft Johnson (Orsino)
1955	What you want	Soviet Union	Jan Frid	Klara Lutschko (viola and Sebastian), Vadim Medwedew (Orsino), Alla Larionowa (Olivia)	Actress Lutschko played the role of viola as well as that of her twin brother Sebastian.
1962	What you want	BR Germany	Franz Peter Wirth	Ingrid Andree ((viola and Sebastian)), Fritz Wepper (Valentin)
1963	What you want	German Democratic Republic	Lothar Bellag	Christel Bodenstein (viola), Hans-Günter Schmidt (Sebastian), Hannjo Hasse (Malvolio)
1964/ 1965	Nothing but sin	German Democratic Republic	Hanuš burger	Helga Cocková (viola), Annekathrin Bürger (Olivia), Brigitte Krause (Maria)	musical
1988	Twelfth Night, or What You Will	United Kingdom	Paul Kafno	Frances Barber (viola), Christopher Hollis (Sebastian), Anton Lesser (Feste), Caroline Langrishe (Olivia)
1996	What you want	United Kingdom Ireland United States	Trevor Nunn	Imogen Stubbs (viola), Steven Mackintosh (Sebastian), Ben Kingsley (Feste), Helena B. Carter (Olivia)	Trevor Nunn , who staged many Shakespeare's plays for the theater, adapted the template to modern times and let the events take place in the 1920s.

As you Like It

year	Movie title	Country of production	Director	actor	Remarks
1936	As you Like It	United Kingdom	Paul Czinner	Laurence Olivier (Orlando), Elisabeth Bergner (Rosalind)
1958	As you Like It	BR Germany	Ludwig Berger	Walter Ueding (Orlando), Luitgard Im (Rosalind)
1978	As You Like It	United Kingdom	Basil Coleman	Richard Pasco (Jacques), Helen Mirren (Rosalind), Brian Stirner (Orlando),	Film in the BBC Television Shakespeare series (1978-1985).
2006	As you Like It	United States United Kingdom	Kenneth Branagh	Kevin Kline (Jacques), Bryce Dallas Howard (Rosalind), Brian Blessed (Herzog Senior)	Branagh's Shakespeare adaptation is set in 19th century Japan.

Two gentlemen from Verona

year	Movie title	Country of production	Director	actor	Remarks
1966	The two gentlemen from Verona	BR Germany	Harald Benesch	Jürgen Kloth (Valentin), Lothar Berg (Proteus), Anne-Marie Lermon (Julia), Carola Regnier (Silvia)
1983	The Two Gentlemen of Verona	United Kingdom	Don Taylor	John Hudson (Valentin), Tyler Butterworth (Proteus), Tessa Peake-Jones (Julia), Joanne Pearce (Silvia)	Film in the BBC Television Shakespeare series (1978-1985).

Histories

Although real people from contemporary history (Macbeth, Julius Caesar and Cleopatra) are the focus of many of Shakespeare's plays, the pieces are usually referred to as historical dramas (or histories ) that were classified accordingly in the first folio edition of 1623: King John , Richard II. , Heinrich IV. (Two parts) and Heinrich the Fifth , Heinrich VI. (three parts), Richard III. , Henry VIII. Edward III. whose authorship has not been established beyond doubt, is also attributed to Shakespeare.

These pieces cover the history of England from the 12th to the 16th centuries and are named after the respective monarch who ruled the English kingdom at the time.

King Johann

year	Movie title	Country of production	Director	actor	Remarks
1899	King John	United Kingdom	William KL Dickson	Herbert Beerbohm Tree (King Johann)	First film recording of a Shakespeare play
1936	Saeed-e Havas	British India	Sohrab modes	Sohrab Modi (King John)	Urdu adaptation of King John by Aga Hashr Kashmiri
1984	The Life and Death of King John	United Kingdom United States	David Giles	Leonard Rossiter (King John), Luc Owen (Arthur), Charles Kay (King Philip)	Film in the BBC Television Shakespeare series (1978-1985).

Richard II

year	Movie title	Country of production	Director	actor	Remarks
1950	The Tragedy of King Richard II	United Kingdom	Royston Morley	Alan Wheatley (Richard II)
1954	Richard II	United States	George Schaefer	Maurice Evans (Richard II)
1978	King Richard the Second	United Kingdom	David Giles	Derek Jacobi (Richard II.)
1982	Richard II	United States	William Woodman
1997	Richard II	United Kingdom	Deborah Warner	Fiona Shaw (Richard II.)
1997	Richard II	BR Germany	Claus Peymann	Michael Maertens (Richard II.)
2003	Richard II	United Kingdom		Mark Rylance (Richard II)
2012	Richard II	United Kingdom		Ben Whishaw (Richard II) Patrick Stewart (Gaunt)	Part of the BBC TV series "The Hollow Crown"

Henry IV.

year	Movie title	Country of production	Director	actor	Remarks
2012	Henry IV Part 1	United Kingdom	Richard Eyre	Jeremy Irons (Henry IV), Tom Hiddleston (Prince Hal), Simon Russell Beale (Falstaff)	Part of the BBC TV series "The Hollow Crown"
2012	Henry IV Part 2	United Kingdom	Richard Eyre	Jeremy Irons (Henry IV), Tom Hiddleston (Prince Hal), Simon Russell Beale (Falstaff)	Part of the BBC TV series "The Hollow Crown"

Henry V.

year	Movie title	Country of production	Director	actor	Remarks
1944	Henry V.	United Kingdom	Laurence Olivier	Laurence Olivier (Henry V), Felix Aylmer (Archbishop of Canterbury)	Most expensive British film at the time of completion; four times Oscar- nominated.
1989	Henry V.	United Kingdom	Kenneth Branagh	Kenneth Branagh (Henry V), Derek Jacobi (choir), Simon Shepherd (Gloucester)	Award-winning film: received u. a. 1990 the Oscar for “ Best Costume Design ”.
2012	Henry V	United Kingdom	Thea Sharrock	Tom Hiddleston (Henry V)	Part of the BBC TV series "The Hollow Crown"

Henry VI.

year	Movie title	Country of production	Director	actor	Remarks
2016	Henry VI Part 1	United Kingdom	Dominic Cooke	Hugh Bonneville (Gloucester), Sophie Okonedo (Queen Margaret)	Part of the BBC TV series "The Hollow Crown". Filming of parts 1 and 2 of the drama
2016	Henry VI Part 2	United Kingdom	Dominic Cooke	Hugh Bonneville (Gloucester), Sophie Okonedo (Queen Margaret), Benedict Cumberbatch (Richard III)	Part of the BBC TV series "The Hollow Crown". Filming of part 3 of the drama

Richard III

year	Movie title	Country of production	Director	actor	Remarks
1908	Richard III	United States	James Stuart Blackton , William V. Ranous	William V. Ranous (Richard III.)
1911	Richard III	United Kingdom	Frank R. Benson	Frank R. Benson (Richard III.)	Recording from the Shakespeare Memorial Theater
1912	Richard III	France United States	André Calmettes , James Keane	Frederick Warde (Richard III), Robert Gemp (Edward IV), Carey Lee (Queen Elisabeth)	Silent film; oldest American feature film still in existence.
1955	Richard III	United Kingdom	Laurence Olivier	Laurence Olivier (Richard III.), Cedric Hardwicke (Edward IV.), Ralph Richardson (Buckingham)
1964	King Richard III	BR Germany	Fritz Umgelter	Wolfgang Kieling (Richard III.), Maria Becker (Queen Margarethe)
1995	Richard III	United Kingdom United States	Richard Loncraine	Ian McKellen (Richard III.), Annette Bening (Elisabeth), Jim Broadbent (Buckingham)	Adaptation of Shakespeare relocated to modern times (England in the 1930s).
1996	Al Pacino's Looking for Richard	United States	Al Pacino	Al Pacino (Richard III), Alec Baldwin (Clarence), Kevin Spacey (Buckingham)	Documentation about Shakespeare and Richard III. with staged scenes from the play.
2016	Richard III	United Kingdom	Dominic Cooke	Benedict Cumberbatch (Richard III.)	Part of the BBC TV series "The Hollow Crown"

literature

• Judith Buchanan Shakespeare films . In Richard Abel: Encyclopedia of Early Cinema , New York 2010, pp. 588 ff. ISBN 0-415-77856-5

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Mark Young (Ed.): The Guinness Book of Records 1999 , Bantam Books, p. 358.
2. ^ Eckart Voigts-Virchow: Janespotting and Beyond: British Heritage Retrovisions Since the Mid-1990s , Gunter Narr Verlag, p. 92.
3. ↑ Roland Kraft (ed.): Guinness Book of Records 1998 , Guinness Verlag, Hamburg 1998, p. 194.
4. ↑ Bill Bryson: Shakespeare as I see him , Wilhelm Goldmann Verlag, Munich 2008, p. 159.
5. ↑ Gerard Butler plays in Shakespeare's "Coriolanus" ( Memento of the original from January 15, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . cineastentreff.de, accessed on January 12, 2010. 
6. ^ Hamlet goes business . cinema.de, accessed on January 20, 2010.
7. ↑ Focus on Bollywood: Maqbool - The Godfather of Mumbai ( Memento of the original from January 13, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . arte.tv, accessed on January 14, 2010. 
8. ^ Film: Placido Domingo in Zeffirelli's 'Otello' . nytimes.com, accessed January 13, 2010.
9. ^ BFI Screenonline: Romeo and Juliet (1978) . screenonline.org.uk, accessed January 17, 2010.
10. ↑ Greencine - Women in Film ( Memento of the original from October 21, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . greencine.com, accessed January 20, 2010. 

Web links

• Shakespeare in Performance: Film Productions