He took tap-dancing lessons and made his stage debut as a chorus boy in The Five O'Clock Girl at the Ever ambitious, he relocated to London in His father was a headmaster of a village school in Suffolk, where Mills was raised.Īfter secondary school, he worked as a clerk in a corn merchant's office while acting in amateur dramatic societies. He was 97.īorn Lewis Ernest Watts Mills in Norfolk, England on February 22, 1908. Sir John Mills, the Oscar®-winning actor whose film career spanned over 70 years, died on April 23 of natural causes in London. He was arguably the most refined, and versatile of all English film stars in the history of British cinema. Maloney (Laertes), John Mills (Old Norway). (Player Queen), Charlton Heston (Player King), Michael (Polonius), Nicholas Farrell (Horatio), Rosemary Harris (Claudius), Brian Blessed (Ghost), Richard Briers (Gertrude), Kate Winslet (Ophelia), Derek Jacobi Screenplay: Kenneth Branagh, from William ShakespeareĬast: Kenneth Branagh (Hamlet), Julie Christie Roles, Branagh peppers his film with guest appearancesįrom the likes of John Gielgud, Judi Dench, RichardĪttenborough, Gerard Depardieu, Jack Lemmon and Billy In addition to an all-star cast in principal
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Shakespeare's full text ' leaving little need forĪdaptation. Nomination was a source of controversy, since this was theįirst of the more than 20 film versions of Hamlet to use Nomination was for Branagh's adapted screenplay. Himself in the title role, Hamlet's only other Oscar® Kate Winslet, Julie Christie, Derek Jacobi and Branagh Spite of the highly praised performances, especially by The second-longest major Hollywood production, clocking inĪ mere minute shorter than Cleopatra (1963). In its full length of 238 minutes, Branagh's Hamlet became Observing) and allows for intrigue (some of the mirrorsĪre two-way, and lead to concealed chambers and Of the action onstage (members of the court are constantly London].' In The Chicago Sun Times, RogerĮbert wrote, 'The movie's very sets emphasize the role of Interiors filmed at Shepperton [Studios in
In for Elsinore) and the mirror-laden, secret-revealing That Harvey 'makes superb thematic use of both the icyĮxteriors shot at Oxfordshire's Blenheim Palace (standing The action of Shakespeare's 1602 tragedy to a 19th-centuryĬritic Kim Williamson wrote in Box Office magazine For Hamlet, the first film shot in 70mm sinceįar and Away (1992), adapter-director-star Branagh moved Striking designs to Branagh's films Henry V (1989),ĭead Again (1991), Peter's Friends (1992), MuchĪdo About Nothing (1993), Frankenstein (1994), Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet (1996) is a constantĬollaborator with the wunderkind of British theater and, Production designer Tim Harvey, an Oscar® nominee for
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