Macbeth on screen

William Shakespeare's Macbeth has been screened numerous times featuring many of the biggest names from stage, film and television.

Performances

*Macbeth, 1908 film directed by J. Stuart Blackton.
**William V. Ranous as Macbeth
**Louise Carver as Lady Macbeth
*Macbeth (USA, 1916 B&W, Silent, [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0006995/ imdb] )
**John Emerson
**Herbert Beerbohm Tree as Macbeth
**Constance Collier as Lady Macbeth
*Macbeth (USA, 1948)
**Orson Welles director and as Macbeth
**Jeanette Nolan as Lady Macbeth
*Hallmark Hall of Fame "Macbeth" (USA, TV, 1954, [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047198/ imdb] )
**Maurice Evans as Macbeth
**Judith Anderson as Lady Macbeth
*Hallmark Hall of Fame "Macbeth" (1960 [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055112/ imdb] ) emmy award winning remake, featuring an all-British supporting cast, and filmed on location in England and Scotland.
**Maurice Evans as Macbeth
**Judith Anderson as Lady Macbeth
*Macbeth (USA and UK, 1971)
**Roman Polanski director
**Jon Finch as Macbeth
**Francesca Annis as Lady Macbeth
*Macbeth (UK, 1978) film of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Other Place production.
**Trevor Nunn director
**Ian McKellen as Macbeth
**Judi Dench as Lady Macbeth
*Macbeth (UK, 1981)
**Arthur Allan Seidelman director
**Jeremy Brett as Macbeth
**Piper Laurie as Lady Macbeth
*BBC Television Shakespeare Macbeth (TV, UK, 1983) - Released in the USA as part of the "Complete Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare" series.
**Jack Gold director
**Nicol Williamson as Macbeth
**Jane Lapotaire as Lady Macbeth
*The Animated Shakespeare Macbeth (TV, Russia and UK, 1992)
**Nicolai Serebryakov director
**Brian Cox as the voice of Macbeth
**Zoe Wanamaker as the voice of Lady Macbeth
*Macbeth (UK, 1997)
**Jeremy Freeston and Brian Blessed directors
**Jason Connery as Macbeth
**Helen Baxendale as Lady Macbeth
*Macbeth (TV, UK, 1998)
**Michael Bogdanov director
**Sean Pertwee as Macbeth
**Greta Scacchi as Lady Macbeth
*Macbeth (Video, UK, 2001). Film of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Swan production.
**Greg Doran director
**Antony Sher as Macbeth
**Harriet Walter as Lady Macbeth
*Macbeth (Australia, 2006) film set against the backdrop of a violent gang war in Melbourne, Australia.
**Geoffrey Wright director
**Sam Worthington as Macbeth
**Victoria Hill as Lady Macbeth

Adaptations

*Joe MacBeth (UK, 1955) is a film noir resetting of the story as a gang war in Chicago
**Ken Hughes director
**Paul Douglas as Joe MacBeth
**Ruth Roman as Lily Macbeth
*Throne of Blood (aka Cobweb Castle or Kumonosu-jo) (Japan, 1957) is an adaptation of the Macbeth story to a Japanese setting.
**Akira Kurosawa director
**Toshiro Mifune
**Isuzu Yamada
*The first series of The Black Adder (TV, UK, 1983), written by Richard Curtis and Rowan Atkinson, is a parody of Shakespeare’s plays, particularly Macbeth, Richard III and Henry V.
*Men of Respect (USA, 1991) is a retelling of the Macbeth story as a Mafia power struggle in New York, in modern English, but closely tracking the original plot.
**William Reilly director
**John Turturro as Mike Battaglia
**Katherine Borowitz as Ruthie Battaglia
*Scotland, Pa. (USA, 2001) is set in and around a fast food restaurant in the 1970s.
**Billy Morrissette writer/director
**Maura Tierney as Pat McBeth
**James LeGros as Joe "Mac" McBeth
**Christopher Walken as Lieutenant McDuff
**Kevin Corrigan as Anthony "Banko" Banconi
**Andy Dick, Timothy "Speed" Levitch, and Amy Smart as the three bohemians
*Maqbool (India, 2004) is a Macbeth adaptation set in the Mumbai underworld.
**Vishal Bharadwaj director
**Irfan Khan as Mian Maqbool (the Macbeth character)
**Tabu as Nimmi (the Lady Macbeth character)
*ShakespeaRe-Told Macbeth (UK, TV, 2005) is a modern adaptation by Peter Moffat, set in a Glasgow restaurant.
**James McAvoy as Joe Macbeth
**Keeley Hawes as Ella (the Lady Macbeth character)