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Hamlet

Hamlet
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1996
 242 minutes (4 hrs 02 mins)

Production Country

United Kingdom • United States

Director and Cast Quickview

Directed by

Kenneth Branagh

Starring

Rizz Abbasi · Richard Attenborough · David Blair · Brian Blessed · Kenneth Branagh · Richard Briers

Full cast & crew

Release dates

US release date US release: 25th December 1996
United States release date United States release: 25th December 1996
Cameroon release date Cameroon release: 27th December 1996

Box Office Quickview

UK box office

  • Debut box office: 14th Feb '97
  • Debut position: 7
  • Highest position: 7
  • Debut gross: £450.3 Thousand
  • Total chart weeks: 6

US box office

  • Box Office debut: 27th Dec '96
  • Debut position: 23
  • Highest position: 23
  • Debut gross: $147.3 Thousand
  • Total chart weeks: 2

Chart position history

UK box office

14 Feb, 1997
7
21 Feb, 1997
10
28 Feb, 1997
12
7 Mar, 1997
12
14 Mar, 1997
14
21 Mar, 1997
14

US box office

Global box office

Certificates

US
PG-13

12

K-12

G

13

Total grosses

UK total gross
United Kingdom Flag  £1.1 Million
US total gross
United States Flag  $4.7 Million
Global total gross
Global Flag  $5.7 Million

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Directed By

Director
Role
Kenneth Branagh
Directed By

Starring

Actor
Character
Rizz Abbasi
Attendant to Claudius
Richard Attenborough
English Ambassador
David Blair
Attendant to Claudius
Brian Blessed
Ghost of Hamlet's Father
Kenneth Branagh
Hamlet
Richard Briers
Polonius
Michael Bryant
Priest
Peter Bygott
Attendant to Claudius
Julie Christie
Gertrude
Billy Crystal
First Gravedigger
Charles Daish
Stage Manager
Judi Dench
Hecuba
Gérard Depardieu
Reynaldo
Reece Dinsdale
Guildenstern
Ken Dodd
Yorick
Angela Douglas
Attendant to Gertrude
Rob Edwards
Lucianus
Nicholas Farrell
Horatio
Ray Fearon
Francisco
Yvonne Gidden
Doctor
John Gielgud
Priam
Rosemary Harris
Player Queen
Charlton Heston
Player King
Ravil Isyanov
Cornelius
Derek Jacobi
Claudius
Rowena King
Attendant to Gertrude
Jeffery Kissoon
Fortinbras's Captain
Sarah Lam
Attendant to Gertrude
Jack Lemmon
Marcellus
Ian McElhinney
Barnardo
Michael Maloney
Laertes
John Spencer-Churchill
Fortinbras's Captain
John Mills
Old Norway
Jimi Mistry
Sailor Two
Sian Radinger
Prologue
Melanie Ramsay
Prostitute
Simon Russell Beale
Second Gravedigger
Andrew Schofield
Young Lord
Rufus Sewell
Fortinbras
Timothy Spall
Rosencrantz
Thomas Szekeres
Young Hamlet
Ben Thom
First Player
Don Warrington
Voltimand
Perdita Weeks
Second Player
Robin Williams
Osric
Kate Winslet
Ophelia
David Yip
Sailor One
Kenneth W Caravan
Laertes Mob
Mark Chapman
Courtier
John Lanasis
Ophelias Jailer
Anthony Maddalena
Elsinore Courtier
Arnold Montey
Boatman
Frank Morgan
Pyrrhus
Orlando Seale
Boatman
Jimmy Yuill
Alexander