William Shakespeare Screen Adaptations

All's Well That Ends Well (TV, UK, 1968)
Directors:
John Barton
Claude Whatham
Starring:
Lynn Farleigh
Ian Richardson
Catherine Lacey

All's Well That Ends Well (TV, USA, 1978)
Director:
Wilford Leach
Starring:
Pamela Reed
Marc Linn
Elizabeth Wilson

BBC TV All's Well That Ends Well (TV, UK, 1981)
Director:
Elijah Moshinsky
Starring:
Angela Down
Ian Charleson
Celia Johnson

All's Well That Ends Well (TV, UK, 2009)
Director:
Marianne Elliott
Starring:
Michelle Terry
George Rainsford
Claire Higgings

As You Like It (USA, 1912)
Directors:
J. Stuart Blackton
Charles Kent
James Young
Starring:
Rose Coghlan
Maurice Costello
Rosemary Theby

Love in a Wood (UK, 1915)
Director:
Maurice Elvey
Starring:
Elisabeth Risdon
Gerald Ames
Vera Cunningham

As You Like It (USA, 1936)
Director:
Paul Czinner
Starring:
Elisabeth Bergner
Laurence Olivier
Sophie Stewart

As You Like It (TV, UK, 1963)
Directors:
Michael Elliott
Ronald Eyre
Starring:
Vanessa Redgrave
Patrick Allen
Rosalind Knight

BBC TV As You Like It (TV, UK, 1978)
Director:
Basil Coleman
Starring:
Helen Mirren
Brian Stirner
Angharad Rees

As You Like It (TV, Canada, 1983)
Director:
Herb Roland
Starring:
Roberta Maxwell
Andrew Gillies
Rosemary Dunsmore

As You Like It (UK, 1992)
Director:
Christine Edzard
Starring:
Emma Croft
Andrew Tiernan
Celia Bannerman

Shakespeare: The Animated Tales As You Like It (TV, Russia, UK, 1994)
Director:
Alexei Karaev
Starring:
Sylvestra Le Touzel
John McAndrew
Maria Miles

As You Like It (UK, 2006)
Director:
Kenneth Branagh
Starring:
Bryce Dallas Howard
David Oyelowo
Romola Garai

As You Like It (TV, CA, 2010)
Directors:
Robert Budreau
Des McAnuff
Starring:
Andrea Runge
Paul Nolan
Brent Carver

As You Like It (Video, UK, 2010)
Starring:
Naomi Frederick
Jack Laskey
Laura Rogers

The Boys from Syracuse (USA, 1940)
Director:
A. Edward Sutherland
Starring:
Allan Jones
Joe Penner

Festival The Comedy of Errors (TV, UK, 1967)
Directors:
Peter Duguid
Clifford Williams
Starring:
Ian Richardson
Alec McCowen
Clifford Rose
Barry MacGregor

The Comedy of Errors (TV, UK, 1978)
Director:
Philip Casson
Starring:
Mike Gwilym
Roger Rees
Nickolas Grace
Michael Williams

Angoor (Hindi, India, 1982)
Director:
Gulzar
Starring:
Sanjeev Kumar
Deven Verman

BBC TV The Comedy of Errors (TV, UK, 1983)
Director:
James Cellan Jones
Starring:
Michael Kitchen
Roger Daltrey

The Comedy of Errors (TV, USA, 1987)
Director:
Robert Woodruff
Starring:
Howard Jay Patterson
Paul David Magid
Randy Nelson
Samuel Ross Williams

The Comedy of Errors (TV, CA, 1989)
Director:
Richard Monette
Starring:
Geordie Johnson
Keith Dinicol 

Cymbeline (USA, 1913)
Director:
Lucius Henderson
Starring:
William Russell
Florence La Badie 

BBC Television Shakespeare Cymbeline (TV, UK, 1982)
Director:
Elijah Moshinsky
Starring:
Richard Johnson
Helen Mirren 

Play of the Month Love's Labour's Lost (TV, UK, 1975)
Director:
Basil Coleman
Starring:
Martin Shaw
Lorna Heilbron 

BBC Television Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost (TV, UK, 1985)
Director:
Elijah Moshinsky
Starring:
Jonathan Kent
Maureen Lipman 

Love's Labour's Lost (UK, 2000) - a musical adaptation
Director:
Kenneth Branagh
Starring:
Alessandro Nivola
Alicia Silverstone

BBC TV Measure For Measure (TV, UK, 1979)
Director:
Desmond Davis
Starring:
Kenneth Colley
Kate Nelligan 

Measure for Measure (TV, UK, 1995)
Director:
David Thacker
Starring:
Tom Wilkinson
Juliet Aubrey 

The Merchant of Venice (UK, 1922)
Director:
Challis Sanderson
Starring:
Ivan Berlyn
Sybil Thorndike 

The Merchant of Venice (TV, UK, 1947)
Director:
George More O'Ferrall
Starring:
Abraham Sofaer
Margaretta Scott

Sunday Night Theatre The Merchant of Venice (TV, UK, 1955)
Director:
Hal Burton
Starring:
Michael Hordern
Rachel Gurney 

Play of the Month The Merchant of Venice (TV, UK, 1972)
Director:
Cedric Messina
Starring:
Frank Finlay
Maggie Smith 

The Merchant of Venice (USA, 1973)
Director:
John Sichel
Starring:
Laurence Olivier
Joan Plowright 

The Merchant of Venice (TV, CA, 1976)
Director:
John Sichel
Starring:
Antony Holland
Trish Grange

BBC TV The Merchant of Venice (TV, UK, 1980)
Director:
Jack Gold
Starring:
Warren Mitchell
Gemma Jones 

The Merchant of Venice (TV, UK, 1996)
Director:
Alan Horrox
Starring:
Bob Peck
Haydn Gwynne 

Masterpiece Theatre The Merchant of Venice (TV, UK, 2001)
Directors:
Chris Hunt
Trevor Nunn
Starring:
Henry Goodman
Derbhle Crotty 

The Maori Merchant of Venice (NZ, 2002)
Director:
Don Selwyn
Starring:
Waihoroi Shortland
Ngarimu Daniels 

The Merchant of Venice (USA, 2004)
Director:
Michael Radford
Starring:
Al Pacino
Lynn Collins 

Sunday Night Theatre The Merry Wives of Windsor (TV, UK, 1952)
Director:
Julian Amyes
Starring:
Robert Atkins
Betty Huntley-Wright 

Chimes at Midnight (USA, 1967)
Director:
Orson Welles
Starring:
Orson Welles
Keith Baxter 

The Merry Wives of Windsor (TV, USA, 1970)
Director:
Jack Manning
Starring:
Leon Charles
Valerine Seelie-Snyder 

BBC TV Shakespeare The Merry Wives of Windsor (TV, UK, 1982)
Director:
Christian Ebil
Starring:
Richard Griffiths
Judy Davis 

ShakespeaRe-Told A Midsummer Night's Dream (TV, UK, 2005)
Director:
Peter Bowker
Starring:
Sharon Small
Lennie James
Johnny Vegas 

ShakespeaRe-Told Much Ado About Nothing (UK, TV, 2005)
Director:
David Nicholls
Starring:
Sarah Parish
Damian Lewis
Billie Piper 

Much Ado About Nothing
Director:
Joss Whedon
Starring:
Amy Acker
Alexis Denisof
Fran Kranz

Kiss Me, Kate (USA, 1948)
Starring:
Howard Keel
Kathryn Grayson
Ann Miller

10 Things I Hate about You (USA, 1999)
Starring:
Julia Stiles
Heath Ledger
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Larisa Oleynik

ShakespeaRe-Told The Taming of The Shrew (UK, TV, 2005)
Director:
Sally Wainwright
Starring:
Shirley Henderson
Rufus Sewell

Yellow Sky (USA, 1948)
Director:
William A. Wellman
Starring:
Gregory Peck

Forbidden Planet (USA, 1956)
Director:
Fred M. Wilcox
Starring:
Walter Pidgeon
Anne Francis
Leslie Nielsen

Tempest (USA, 1982)
Director:
Paul Mazursky
Starring:
John Cassavetes
Molly Ringwald
Susan Sarandon

Prospero's Books (UK)
Director:
Peter Greenaway
Starring:
John Gielgud

The Tempest (USA, 1998)
Director:
Jack Bender
Starring:
Peter Fonda

She's the Man (US, 2006)
Director:
Andy Fickman
Starring:
Amanda Bynes
Channing Tatum

Kannaki (India, Malayalam, 2002)
Director:
Jayaraaj
Starring:
Lal
Siddique
Nandita Das

Coriolanus (Film, UK, 2012)
Starring:
Ralph Fiennes
Gerard Butler
Vanessa Redgrave

Hamlet (Germany, 1920)
Directors:
Svend Gade
Heinz Schall

Hamlet (UK, 1948)
Director:
Laurence Olivier 

Hamlet, Prinz von Dänemark (West Germany, 1961)
Director:
Franz Peter Wirth 

Hamlet (aka Gamlet) (Russia, 1964)
Director:
Grigori Kozintsev 

Hamlet (aka Richard Burton's Hamlet) (1964)
Directors:
Bill Colleran
John Gielgud 

Hamlet at Elsinore (TV, UK, 1964)
Director:
Philip Saville 

Hamlet (UK, 1969)
Director:
Tony Richardson 

BBC Television Shakespeare Hamlet (TV, UK, 1980)
Director:
Rodney Bennett 

Hamlet (USA, 1990)
Director:
Franco Zeffirelli 

The Animated Shakespeare Hamlet (TV, Russia and UK, 1992)
Director:
Natalia Orlova 

Hamlet (UK, 1996)
Director:
Kenneth Branagh 

Hamlet (USA, 2000)
Director:
Michael Almereyda 

The Tragedy of Hamlet Prince of Denmark (2007) (AUS, 2007)
Director:
Oscar Redding 

King Lear (Bahamas/USA, 1987)
Director:
Jean-Luc Godard
Starring:
Burgess Meredith
Molly Ringwald
Peter Sellars

Ran (Japan, 1985)
Director:
Akira Kurosawa
Starring:
Tatsuya Nakadai 

A Thousand Acres (USA, 1997)
Director:
Jocelyn Moorhouse
Starring:
Jason Robards
Jessica Lange

King of Texas (TV, USA, 2002)
Director:
Uli Edel
Starring:
Patrick Stewart

Macbeth (USA, 1948)
Director:
Orson Welles 

Macbeth (TV, USA, 1954)
Director:
George Schaefer

Macbeth (Film, UK, 1960)
Director:
George Schaefer 

'Play of the Month' Macbeth (1965 TV, UK)
Director:
John Gorrie 

Macbeth (USA and UK, 1971)
Director:
Roman Polanski 

Macbeth (UK, 1978, Royal Shakespeare Company)
Director:
Philip Casson 

Macbeth (UK, 1981)
Director:
Arthur Allan Seidelman 

Macbeth (UK, 1997)
Directors:
Jeremy Freeston
Brian Blessed 

Macbeth (TV, UK, 1998)
Director:
Michael Bogdanov 

The Animated Shakespeare Macbeth (TV, Russia and UK, 1992)
Director:
Nicolai Serebryakov 

Macbeth (Video, UK, 2001, Royal Shakespeare Company)
Director:
Greg Doran 

Macbeth (Film, Australia, 2006)
Director:
Geoffrey Wright 

Macbeth (Film, UK, 2010)
Director:
Rupert Goold 

A Double Life (USA, 1947)
Director:
George Cukor
Starring:
Ronald Colman 

All Night Long (UK, 1962)
Director:
Basil Dearden
Starring:
Patrick McGoohan
Keith Michell
Paul Harris 

Catch My Soul (USA, 1974)
Director:
Patrick McGoohan
Starring:
Richie Havens
Lance LeGault
Season Hubley 

Kaliyattam (India, Malayalam, 1997)
Director:
Jayaraaj
Starring:
Suresh Gopi
Lal
Biju Menon 

O (USA 2001)
Director:
Tim Blake Nelson
Starring:
Mekhi Phifer
Josh Hartnett
Julia Stiles 

Omkara (India, 2006)
Director:
Vishal Bharadwaj
Starring:
Ajay Devgan
Saif Ali Khan
Vivek Oberoi

BBC TV Timon of Athens (TV, UK, 1981)
Director:
Jonathan Miller
Starring:
Jonathan Pryce
Norman Rodway

Chimes at Midnight (aka "Falstaff") (USA, 1967)
Director:
Orson Welles
Starring:
Keith Baxter
John Gielgud

My Own Private Idaho (USA, 1991)
Director:
Gus Van Sant
Starring:
River Phoenix
Keanu Reeves

Looking for Richard (USA, 1996)
Starring:
Al Pacino
Winona Ryder
Alec Baldwin
Kevin Spacey

Get Over It (2001)

A Midsummer Night's Rave (2002)

Deliver Us from Eva (USA, 2003)

BBC TV The Two Gentlemen of Verona (TV, UK, 1984)

Othello (TV, UK, 2001)