A Midwinter's Tale

Henry Wakefield (Claudius, the Ghost, and the Player King)

Molly

Margaretta D'Arcy

Tom Newman (Laertes, Fortinbras, and messengers)

Vernon Spatch (Polonius, Marcellus, and First Gravedigger)

Carnforth Greville (Rosencrantz, Guildenstern, Horatio, and Barnardo)

Fadge

Joe Harper (Hamlet)

Nancy Crawford

Nina Raymond (Ophelia)

Mrs. Branch

Tim

Mortimer

Tap Dancer

Young Actor

Scotsman

Mule Train Man

Audience Member

Nina's Father

Mad Puppet Woman (uncredited)

According to Kenneth Branagh "one of the greatest pleasures I has was when we had a screening on a Sunday morning in the West End. And most of the crew and cast came, including Joan Collins. I'd paid for the film myself with the money I made from Frankenstein, and we sold it at a profit. The books were completely open. And as they left the cinema that morning, we had all the envelopes laid out and we gave everybody a cheque - including Joan Collins, who nearly fell over. She said, 'I've been in the business for quite a long time, and this has never happened.' She opened it and she said, 'F**king hell!' Because it was not inconsiderable."

Jimmy Yuill was offered a key role but had to pass because of his commitments to Wycliffe (1994).

Shot in only 21 days.

Tom Newman: The fight! If it all goes wrong, drop the sword, take this off, and throw it at me. Then I say, "The boot! The boot was poisoned!" and die.

Tom Newman: Hamlet isn't just Hamlet. Oh no, no, no. Oh, no. Hamlet is me. Hamlet is Bosnia. Hamlet is this desk. Hamlet is the air. Hamlet is my grandmother. Hamlet is everything you ever though about sex, about geology...

Audience Member: Any ice cream?