The BBC Television Shakespeare is a series of British television adaptations of the plays of William Shakespeare, created by Cedric Messina and produced by BBC Television. It was transmitted in the UK from 3 December 1978 to 27 April 1985 and spanned seven series. Development of the series began in 1975 when Messina saw that Glamis Castle would make a perfect location for an adaptation of Shakespeare's play As You Like It. On returning to London, he envisioned an entire series devoted exclusively to the dramatic works of Shakespeare. After encountering numerous problems trying to produce the series, Messina eventually pitched the idea to the BBC’s departmental heads and the series was greenlighted. The series as a whole received generally negative reviews from critics.
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Robert Lindsay
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Ron Cook
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Claire Bloom
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Frank Middlemass
Brenda Bruce
Vernon Dobtcheff
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Anna Calder-Marshall
John Barron
Clive Swift
Patrick Allen
James Bolam
Clifford Rose
Derek Farr
Patsy Smart
Jeremy Kemp
John Franklyn-Robbins
Joanna McCallum
Jane Lapotaire
David Burke
Jeffrey Holland
John Wells
Geoffrey Burridge
Hugh Quarshie
John Woodnutt
Darien Angadi
Anton Lesser
Geoffrey Chater
Valentine Dyall
Anthony Quayle
Graham Crowden
Celia Johnson
Julian Glover
Michele Dotrice
John Burgess
Elizabeth Spriggs
Penelope Wilton
Geoffrey Lumsden
John Bird
Nicholas Gecks
Noel Johnson
Tim Wylton
Jeremy Dimmick
Michael Kitchen
Tony Steedman
Tim Pigott-Smith
Richard Pasco
Kevin Stoney
Mary Morris
John Paul
Harry Waters, Jr.
Howard Goorney
John Sterland
Robert Brown
Derek Jacobi
John Gielgud
John Nettleton
Richard Owens
Rob Edwards
Ian Puleston-Davies
Christopher Strauli
Christopher Blake
Nicholas Young
Frank Thornton
Judy Davis
Kate Nelligan
David Rintoul
Nicky Henson
Phyllida Law
Edward Hardwicke
Bob Hoskins
Tony Church
Edward Petherbridge
David Daker
Jonathan Pryce
Frances Cuka
Eamon Boland
Alan David
Colin McCormack
Jonathan Scott-Taylor
Oliver Cotton
Keith Drinkel
David Dixon
Don Estelle
Alan Rickman
John Thaw
Barbara Rhoades
Prunella Scales
Andrew Burt
Kenneth Colley
Nickolas Grace
Joe Gladwin
Kenneth Haigh
Alan Howard
James Cossins
Maurice Roëves
Robert Eddison
John Grillo
Tessa Peake-Jones
Brian Glover
John Fortune
Lee Montague
Eileen Atkins
David Kelly
Christopher Guard
Nigel Terry
John Stride
Jacqueline Hill
Ian Barritt
Eileen Way
Anna Quayle
David Prowse
Jonathan Hyde
John Clegg
Anthony Hopkins
Ralph Michael
Diana Dors
Susan Penhaligon
Benjamin Whitrow
Tony Doyle
John Savident
Lynn Farleigh
Clive Dunn
Lalla Ward
Enn Reitel
John Castle
Thorley Walters
Paul Brooke
Jenny Agutter
Patrick Ryecart
Adrienne Corri
Cyril Cusack
Tony Haygarth
Patrick Stewart
Colin Blakely
Gavin Richards
Mark Dignam
Andrew Sachs
Angus Lennie
Timothy West
Kenneth Cranham
Edward Hibbert
Charles Keating
John Welsh
Ben Kingsley
Sinéad Cusack
Cyril Luckham
Amanda Redman
Trevor Baxter
Jonathan Cecil
John McEnery
Ingrid Pitt
Nicol Williamson
Patricia Hayes
Richard Easton
David Waller
Ann Pennington
Douglas Wilmer
Michael Robbins
Cherie Lunghi
Frank Barrie
Jeremy Bulloch
Maureen Lipman
Roger Daltrey
Zoë Wanamaker
John Bailey
David Buck
Joss Ackland
Warren Clarke
Virginia McKenna
Juliet Stevenson
Robert Stephens
Angharad Rees
Richard Johnson
Richard O'Callaghan
Damien Thomas
Warren Mitchell
Paul Daneman
Phil Daniels
Leonard Rossiter
Petra Markham
Anthony Andrews
Ralph Brown
Robert Gwilym
Nigel Hawthorne
Jacqueline Pearce
John Nettles
Margaret Tyzack
John Woodvine
Timothy Bateson
Michael Gough
John Cleese
Jack May
Robert Hardy
Dominic Jephcott
Deddie Davies
William Simons
Bryan Marshall
Laurence Naismith
Ronnie Stevens
Leon Lissek
Richard Morant
Peter McEnery
Peter Whitbread
Charles Lloyd Pack
Christopher Ellison
Sarah Badel
Peter Jeffrey
Declan Mulholland
Charles Kay
David Warner
Joan Hickson
Peter Vaughan
Geoffrey Palmer
Christopher Ettridge
Seymour Green
James Hazeldine
Ronald Forfar
John Moulder-Brown
Suzanne Burden
Gemma Jones
John Abineri
Alan Bennett
Peter Salmon
Clive Francis
John Abbott
Richard Wordsworth
Barbara Kellerman
Ian Hogg
Joolia Cappleman
Danny Webb
Susan Jameson
Eric Porter
Robin Sachs
Michael Elphick
Donald Sumpter
Keith Michell
David Robb
John Rhys-Davies
Marius Goring
Andrew MacLachlan
Ronald Pickup
Nigel Davenport
Patsy Kensit
Katharine Levy
Estelle Kohler
Michael Bryant
David Lloyd Meredith
Arnold Diamond
Brian Deacon
Jill Baker
Jenny Laird
Alun Armstrong
George Howe
Paul Henry
Sylvia Coleridge
Michael Pennington
Marc Zuber
Stuart Fell
Ellis Jones
Victoria Plucknett
Brian Stirner
Richard Griffiths
Robert Morris
Jack McKenzie
Geoffrey Beevers
Nigel Lambert
Danny Schiller
Rebecca Saire
Mohammad Shamsi
Neil McCarthy
Simon Chandler
Jimmy Gardner
Felicity Kendal
Paul Kelly
Yolande Palfrey
Joseph O'Conor
Christopher Northey
Roger Davidson
Zulema Dene
David Swift
Jonathan Adams
Janet Maw
Alan Dalton
Status:
Ended
Original Language:
English
Type:
Scripted
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