Hamlet Film Adaptations

Oh'Phelia (UK, 1919)
Anson Dyer, director

To Be or Not To Be (USA, 1942)
Ernst Lubitsch, director
Jack Benny as Joseph Tura
Carole Lombard as Maria Tura

The Bad Sleep Well (aka Warui yatsu hodo yoku nemuru) (Japan, 1960)
Akira Kurosawa, director
Toshiro Mifune as Koichi Nishi

Acting Hamlet in the Village of Mrdusa Donja (Yugoslavia, 1974)
Krsto Papić, director
Rade Šerbedžija as Joco / Hamlet

Angel of Revenge/Female Hamlet (Turkey, 1976)
Metin Erksan, director
Fatma Girik as a female Hamlet

Hamlet Goes Business (Hamlet liikemaailmassa) (Finland, 1981).
Aki Kaurismäki, director
Pirkka-Pekka Petelius as Hamlet

To Be or Not To Be (USA, 1983)
Mel Brooks director and as Frederick Bronski
Anne Bancroft as Anna Bronski

Strange Brew (Canada, 1983)
Dave Thomas co-director and as Doug McKenzie
Rick Moranis co-director and as Bob McKenzie

Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (USA, 1990)
Tom Stoppard, director
Gary Oldman as Rozencrantz (or Guildenstern)
Tim Roth as Guildenstern (or Rozencrantz)
Richard Dreyfuss as the Player King

Renaissance Man (USA, 1994)
Penny Marshall, director
Danny DeVito as Bill

The Lion King (USA, 1994)
Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff, directors
Matthew Broderick as the voice of Simba (the Hamlet character)
James Earl Jones as the voice of Mufasa (the Old Hamlet character)
Jeremy Irons as the voice of Scar (the Claudius character)

In The Bleak Midwinter (aka “A Midwinter’s Tale”) (UK, 1996)
Kenneth Branagh, director 
Michael Maloney as Joe (Hamlet)
Julia Sawalha as Nina (Ophelia) 

Let the Devil Wear Black (USA, 1999)
Stacy Title director
Jonathan Penner as Jack Lyne (Hamlet )
Jamey Sheridan as Carl Lyne (Claudius) 
Mary-Louise Parker as Julia Hirsch (Ophelia)

The Banquet (China, 2006)
Feng Xiaogang, director 
Zhang Ziyi as Empress Wan (Gertrude) 
Daniel Wu as Prince Wu Luan (Hamlet) 
Zhou Xun as Qing Nu (Ophelia)
Ge You as Emperor Li (Claudius)