
1967
Dame Maggie Smith stars in the 1967 screen version of Franco Zeffirelli's exuberant National Theatre production of Shakespeare's romantic comedy, in which young lovers Hero and Claudio conspire to make sharp-tongued rivals Beatrice and Benedick fall in love with each other.

Maggie Smith
Beatrice

Robert Stephens
Benedick

Frank Finlay
Dogberry

Michael Byrne
Claudio

Caroline John
Hero

Derek Jacobi
Don John

Ronald Pickup
Don Pedro

Denis DeMarne
A Lord

Gerald James
Leonato

Harry Lomax
Antonio

Wynne Clark
Ursula

Carolyn Jones
Margaret

Edward Petherbridge
Conrade

David Hargreaves
Borachio

Neil Fitzpatrick
Batlthasar

Malcolm Reynolds
The Messenger

Chloe Ashcroft
Woman of Leonato's Household

Mary Griffiths
Woman of Leonato's Household

Barry Evans
Coffee Boy

John McEnery
A Gentleman

Graham Crowden
Verges

David Ryall
The Sexton

Roger Kemp
First Watchman

Ron Pember
Second Watchman

David Belcher
Other Watchman

Michael Gambon
Other Watchman

John Hallam
Other Watchman

Paul Curran
Friar Francis

Christopher Timothy
Server / Inanimate

National Theatre Live : A Small Family Business

Tricicle: Manicomic

Impossible Catherine

Blue Little Sillies

Death of a Salesman

The Last of Mrs. Lincoln

Peter Pan

Rent: Filmed Live on Broadway

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Romance/Romance

National Theatre Live: Twelfth Night

National Theatre Live: Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead

Kinky Boots: The Musical

Company

Into the Woods

National Theatre Live: The Wife of Willesden

The Gin Game

National Theatre Archive: I Want My Hat Back

National Theatre Live: The Fifth Step