- Author:
- William Shakespeare
- Production:
- John Richmond
- Unknown:
- Stephen Williams
- Gentlemen of the Guard - Bernando:
- Richard Williams
- Gentlemen of the Guard - Francisco:
- Stanley Groome
- Horatio, Hamlet's friend:
- Sebastian Shaw
- Marcellus, Officer of the Royal Guard:
- Anthony Jacobs
- Claudius, King of Denmark, brother of the late King:
- Andrew Cruickshank
- Voltimand, a courtier:
- Hugh Manning
- Laertes, Polonius' son:
- Hugh Burden
- Polonius, chief of the King's counsellors:
- Baliol Holloway
- Hamlet, son of the late and nephew of the present King:
- John Gielgud
- Gertrude, Queen of Denmark, Hamlet's mother:
- Marian Spencer
- Ophelia, Polonius' daughter:
- Celia Johnson
- Ghost of the late king:
- Leon Quartermaine
- Reynaldo, servant to Polonius:
- Frank Atkinson
- Courtiers, formerly fellow-students of Hamlet -ÃÂ Rosencrantz:
- Bryan Coleman
- Courtiers, formerly fellow-students of Hamlet -ÃÂ Guildenstern:
- John Chandos
- First player:
- Hugh Griffith
- Player queen:
- Denise Bryer
- Fortinbras, Prince of Norway:
- Andrew Faulds
- A captain of the Norwegian army:
- Denis McCarthy
- Gravediggers:
- Charles Leno
- Gravediggers:
- Preston Lockwood
- A priest:
- Arthur Ridley
- Osric a fantastic:
- Esme Percy
- A gentleman:
- Alastair Duncan
- Ambassador from England:
- Victor Lucas
- Narrator:
- Duncan Carse
