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Hamlet - Act V: Scene 1 (Nicol Williamson) Gravedigger scene

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Uploaded by on Jul 19, 2008

by William Shakespeare

Roger Livesey ... Gravedigger
Nicol Williamson ... Hamlet
Gordon Jackson ... Horatio
Michael Pennington ... Laertes
Robert Murch ... Priest
Judy Parfitt ... Gertrude
Anthony Hopkins ... Claudius

go here to see Kevin Kline in the Gravedigger scene:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAx_q6be3pE

go here to see Roger Livesey as Billy Rice in "The Entertainer" (1960) with Laurence Olivier:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quUGIMchORc

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  • RIP Nicol

  • Saw this on stage NYC when I was in high school. His portrayal a favorite for me. Same English teacher Mr. Scott, Westfield, NJ) took us to see "Great White Hope."

  • An outstanding clip.

  • @al1936ful best screen hamlet? Burton's videotaped, theatrically released performance directed by John Gilgude strikes me as a more venerable, done-on-stage option with Dick being all he can be, including comedic, in his performance!

  • @al1936ful branagh certainly is best and he directed.

  • @paulm396 I agree. I think his performance is perfect. I find Olivier's, by comparison, to be melodramatic and stagey. I love this film version of Hamlet and wish it would find its way to DVD.

  • He is unquestionably the best screen Hamlet ; head and shoulders above the rest. Both his delivery and his empathy with the playwright are perfect. A great actor and an astonishing performance.

  • Good actor but he did a terrible hamlet. He's about as convincing in the role as Basil Brush.

  • @al1936ful You're funny!

  • @CassandroJMR And you obviously don't know what you're talking about if you claim so many of those Hamlets are garbage.

    Nicol Williamson is far from being the best Hamlet. Branagh is the best, and Kline is the best American-born Hamlet there is, as well as the finest American Shakespeare actor alive right now.

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