--- title: 'Hamlet (1948)' type: 'film' director: 'Laurence Olivier' released: '1948-01-01' runtime_minutes: 150 genres: - 'Drama' countries: - 'United Kingdom' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/hamlet-1948' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040416/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # Hamlet (1948) 1948 · 150 min · Drama · United Kingdom ## Synopsis Hamlet is a 1948 British film adaptation of the play of the same name by William Shakespeare. It was adapted, directed by and starring Laurence Olivier and was his second film as director, as well as the second of the three Shakespeare films he directed. ## Credits - **Director:** [Laurence Olivier](https://cinepixo.com/people/laurence-olivier) - **Screenplay:** [Laurence Olivier](https://cinepixo.com/people/laurence-olivier) - **Producer:** [Laurence Olivier](https://cinepixo.com/people/laurence-olivier) - **Original Music Composer:** [William Walton](https://cinepixo.com/people/william-walton) - **Director of Photography:** [Desmond Dickinson](https://cinepixo.com/people/desmond-dickinson) - **Editor:** [Helga Keller](https://cinepixo.com/people/helga-keller) ## Cast - [Norman Wooland](https://cinepixo.com/people/norman-wooland) as Horatio - [Patrick Troughton](https://cinepixo.com/people/patrick-troughton) as Player King - [Peter Cushing](https://cinepixo.com/people/peter-cushing) as Osric - [Laurence Olivier](https://cinepixo.com/people/laurence-olivier) as The Ghost - [Russell Thorndike](https://cinepixo.com/people/russell-thorndike) as Priest - [John Gielgud](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-gielgud) - [Felix Aylmer](https://cinepixo.com/people/felix-aylmer) as Polonius - [Anthony Bushell](https://cinepixo.com/people/anthony-bushell) - [Desmond Llewelyn](https://cinepixo.com/people/desmond-llewelyn) - [Jean Simmons](https://cinepixo.com/people/jean-simmons) as Ophelia - [Esmond Knight](https://cinepixo.com/people/esmond-knight) as Bernardo - [Christopher Lee](https://cinepixo.com/people/christopher-lee) as a guard - [Anthony Quayle](https://cinepixo.com/people/anthony-quayle) as Marcellus - [Harcourt Williams](https://cinepixo.com/people/harcourt-williams) as First Player - [Stanley Holloway](https://cinepixo.com/people/stanley-holloway) as Gravedigger ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/hamlet-1948 Film facts: Wikidata (Q27178); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.