The motion picture of all time ... for all time!
Winner of four Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Actor, Sir Laurence Olivier’s Hamlet continues to be the most compelling version of Shakespeare’s beloved tragedy. Olivier is at his most inspired—both as director and as the melancholy Dane himself—as he breathes new life into the words of one of the world’s greatest dramatists.
$750,000
December 10, 1948
Two Cities Films, J. Arthur Rank Organisation
25 people
Laurence Olivier
Hamlet - Prince of Denmark / Voice of Ghost
Acting
Basil Sydney
Claudius - The King
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Eileen Herlie
Gertrude - The Queen
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Norman Wooland
Horatio - His Friend
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Felix Aylmer
Polonius - Lord Chamberlain
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Jean Simmons
Ophelia
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Terence Morgan
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Osric
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Stanley Holloway
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Russell Thorndike
Priest
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John Laurie
Francisco
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Esmond Knight
Bernardo
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