Macbeth on screen

Film versions of the play Macbeth

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

Performances

  • Duel Scene from Macbeth (1905, United States, silent)[1][2]
    • Billy Bitzer, cinematographer
  • Macbeth (United States, 1908, silent)[3]
    • J. Stuart Blackton, director
    • William V. Ranous as Macbeth
    • Louise Carver as Lady Macbeth
  • Macbeth (Italy, 1909, silent)[4]
    • Mario Caserini, director
    • Dante Cappelli as Macbeth
    • Maria Caserini as Lady Macbeth
  • Macbeth (France, 1909, silent)[5]
    • André Calmettes, director
    • Paul Mounet as Macbeth
    • Jeanne Delvair as Lady Macbeth
  • Macbeth (United Kingdom, 1911, silent)[6][7]
    • Will Barker, director
    • Frank Benson as Macbeth
    • Constance Benson as Lady Macbeth
  • Macbeth (Germany, 1913, silent)[8]
    • Arthur Bourchier, director and as Macbeth
    • Violet Vanbrugh as Lady Macbeth
  • Macbeth (France, 1915, silent)[9][3]
    • Séverin-Mars as Macbeth
    • Georgette Leblanc as Lady Macbeth
  • Macbeth (United States, 1916, silent, IMDB)
    • John Emerson, director
    • Herbert Beerbohm Tree as Macbeth
    • Constance Collier as Lady Macbeth
  • Macbeth (United Kingdom, 1922, silent)
  • Macbeth (Germany, 1922)[10]
    • Heinz Schall, director
  • Macbeth (United Kingdom, 1945)[11]
  • Macbeth (United States, 1946)[12]
    • Thomas A. Blair, director
    • David Bradley as Macbeth
    • Jain Wilimovsky as Lady Macbeth
  • Macbeth (United States, 1948)
  • Macbeth (United States, 1951)[12]
    • Katherine Stenholm, director
    • Bob Jones Jr. as Macbeth
    • Barbara Hudson Sowers as Lady Macbeth
  • Hallmark Hall of Fame Macbeth (TV, United States, 1954, IMDB)
  • Macbeth (France, 1959)[13]
  • Hallmark Hall of Fame Macbeth (1960, 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 (TV, Australia, 1960)
  • Macbeth (TV, Canada, 1961)[14]
  • Macbeth (TV, Australia, 1965)
    • Alan Burke, director
    • Wynn Roberts as Macbeth
    • Terri Aldred as Lady Macbeth
  • Play of the Month: Macbeth (United Kingdom, TV, 1970; United States, TV, 1975)
  • Macbeth (United Kingdom, 1970)[15] - a 5-part adaption released for ITV School's Drama series.
  • Macbeth (United States and United Kingdom, 1971)
  • Macbeth (TV, United Kingdom, 1979) – film of the Royal Shakespeare Company's Other Place production.
  • Macbeth (United Kingdom, 1981)[16]
    • Joan Ashworth, director
  • Macbeth (United Kingdom, 1981)
  • Macbeth (TV, Hungary, 1982)
  • BBC Television Shakespeare Macbeth (TV, United Kingdom, 1983) – released in the United States as part of the Complete Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare series.
  • Shakespeare: The Animated Tales Macbeth (TV, Russia and United Kingdom, 1992)
    • Nicolai Serebryakov, director
    • Brian Cox as the voice of Macbeth
    • Zoë Wanamaker as the voice of Lady Macbeth
  • Macbeth (Australia, 1996)[17]
    • Thomas R. Gough, producer
    • Julia Reece, Macbeth
    • Julienne Horsman, Lady Macbeth
  • Macbeth (United Kingdom, 1997)
  • Macbeth (Belarus, 1997)[18]
    • Mikhail Ptashuk, director
    • Oleg Garbuz, Macbeth
    • Tatjana Zhdanova, Lady Macbeth
  • Macbeth Horror Suite di Carmelo Bene Da William Shakespeare (TV, Italy, 1997)[19]
    • Carmelo Bene, director
    • Carmelo Bene as Macbeth
    • Silvia Pasella as Lady Macbeth
  • Macbeth (TV, United Kingdom, 1998)
  • Macbeth (United States, 1998)[3]
    • Paul Winarski, director
    • Stephen J. Lewis as Macbeth
    • Dawn Winarski as Lady Macbeth
  • Macbeth (Video, United Kingdom, 2001) – film of the Royal Shakespeare Company's Swan production.
  • Macbeth (United States, 2003)[20]
    • Bryan Enk, director
    • Peter J. Brown as Macbeth
    • Moira Stone as Lady Macbeth
  • Macbeth (Sweden, 2004)[21]
    • Alex Scherpf and Bo Landin, directors
  • Macbeth (TV, United Kingdom, 2010) – television adaptation of Royal Shakespeare Company's stage production.
  • Wee Willie Macbeth (Canada, 2011)[22]
    • Paul Lenart, director
  • Macbeth (Paraguay, 2011)[23]
    • Horacio Ojeda Lacognata, director and as Macbeth
    • Alicia Ávalos as Lady Macbeth
  • The Soliloquy (United States, 2012)[24]
    • Josh Murray, director and as Macbeth
    • Kate Foster as Lady Macbeth
  • Macbeth (United Kingdom, 2013) - Shakespeare's Globe - The Globe on Screen's stage production
  • Macbeth (United Kingdom, 2015)
  • Macbeth (United Kingdom, 2018)
    • Kit Monkman, director
    • Mark Rowley as Macbeth
    • Akiya Henry as Lady Macbeth
  • Macbeth (Russia, 2020)
    • Sergei Tsimbalenko, producer/director
    • Sergei Tsimbalenko as Macbeth
  • The Tragedy of Macbeth (United States, 2021)
  • Macbeth (United States, 2022)
    • Christopher Carter Sanderson, director
    • Sean Kenin as Macbeth
    • Meaghan Bloom Fluitt as Lady Macbeth

Unfinished

Adaptations

  • When Macbeth Came To Snakeville (United States, 1914, silent)[25]
  • The Real Thing at Last (United Kingdom, 1916, silent)[26]
  • Jwala (India, 1938)[27]
    • Vinayek, director
    • Chandramohan, Angar (Macbeth)
    • Ratnaprabha, Mangala (Lady Macbeth)
  • Marmayogi (India, 1951)[28]
  • Crimson Curtain (France, 1952)[29]
  • Marmayogi (India, 1964)
  • Joe MacBeth (United Kingdom, 1955) is a film noir resetting of the story as a gang war in Chicago
  • Throne of Blood (a.k.a. Cobweb Castle or Kumonosu-jo) (Japan, 1957) is an adaptation of the Macbeth story to a Japanese setting.
  • Teenage Gang Debs (United States, 1966), setting the theme around a teenage girl who joins a street gang.
    • Sande N. Johnsen, director
    • Diane Conti as Terry (the Lady Macbeth character)
  • The first series of The Black Adder (TV, United Kingdom, 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 (United States, 1991) is a retelling of the Macbeth story as a Mafia power struggle in New York City, in modern English, but closely tracking the original plot.
  • Scenes from Macbeth (Canada, 1992)[30]
    • Chris Philpott, director
  • In The Flesh (Hungary and United States, 1997) - Pornographic adaption of the play.[3]
    • Antonio Passolini and Stuart Canterbury, directors
    • Mike Horner as Lord Macbeth
    • Kylie Ireland as Lady Macbeth
  • Star Wars: Macbeth (United States, 1997)[3]
    • Bien Conception and Donald Fitz-Roy, directors
  • Macbeth On The Estate (United Kingdom, 1997)[3]
    • Penny Woolcock, director
    • James Frain as Macbeth
    • Susan Vidler as Lady Macbeth
  • The Scottish Tale (United States, 1997), romantic-comedy adaption of the play.[3]
    • Mack Polhelmus, director
    • Josiah Polhemus as Mack
    • Ann Boehkle as Beth
  • Naked Frailties (Canada, 1998)[3]
    • Larry Reese, director
  • Macbeth in Manhattan (United States, 1999)[3]
    • Greg Lombardo. director
    • Nick Gregory as William (Macbeth)
    • Gloria Reuben as Claudia (Lady Macbeth)
  • Borough of Kings (United States, 2000)[3]
    • Elyse Lewin, director
  • Rave Macbeth (Canada and Germany, 2001)[3]
  • Macbeth: The Comedy (United States, 2001)[3]
    • Allison L. LiCalsi, director
    • Erika Burke as Macbeth
    • Juliet Furness as Lady Macbeth
  • Scotland, PA (United States, 2001) is set in and around a fast food restaurant in the 1970s.
  • Makibefo (Madagascar, 2001)[31]
  • Mad Dawg: Running Wild In The Streets (United States, 2001)[3]
    • Greg Salman, director
    • Lamic Blake as Mac
    • Lunden De’Leon as Lady Mac
  • Yellamma (India, 2001)[3]
    • Mohan Koda, director
  • Sangrador (Venezuela, 2003) is an adaptation set in the 1900s Andean Venezuelan mountains
    • Leonardo Henríquez, director
    • Daniel Alvarado, as Max (the Macbeth character)
    • Karina Gómez, as Mileidi (the Lady Macbeth character)
  • Maqbool (India, 2004) is a Macbeth adaptation set in the Mumbai underworld.
    • Vishal Bhardwaj, director
    • Irfan Khan as Mian Maqbool (the Macbeth character)
    • Tabu as Nimmi (the Lady Macbeth character)
  • ShakespeaRe-Told Macbeth (United Kingdom, TV, 2005) is a modern adaptation by Peter Moffat, set in a Glasgow restaurant.
  • Macbeth 3000: This Time, It’s Personal (Canada, 2005)[32]
    • Geoff Warren Meech, director
    • Bill Stepee as Macbeth
    • Kate Hortop as Lady Macbeth
  • Macbeth (Australia, 2006) – film set against the backdrop of a violent gang war in Melbourne, Australia.
  • Macbeth (United States, 2006)[33]
    • Michael T. Starks. director
    • Clyde Sacks as Macbeth
    • Karilyn T. Starks as Lady Macbeth
  • Mickey B (United Kingdom, 2006)[34]
  • The Banquet (China, 2006), Chinese adaption (that also borrows elements of Hamlet) set during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period.[35]
  • Max & Beth (United Kingdom, 2008)[36]
  • Macbeth’s Disciple (United Kingdom, 2008)[37]
    • Jasmin Tempest, director
    • Roger Barclay as Macbeth
  • Macbeth (United States, 2009), apocalyptic adaption.[38]
    • Brandon Arnold, director
    • Hans Totterer as Macbeth
    • Chrissy Ellison as Lady Macbeth
  • Macbeth No More (United Kingdom, 2010)[39]
  • Bill Shakespeare in Hollywood (United States, 2011)
    • Jocelyn Ranne, director and as Lady Macbeth
  • Shakespeare Must Die (Thailand, 2012)[40]
    • Ing Kanjanavanit, director
  • Macbett (The Caribbean Macbeth) (United States, 2012)[41]
  • The Tragedy of Macbeth (United States, 2012), CGI adaption of Macbeth with a sci-fi setting.[42]
    • Don Gallagher, director
  • Macbeth Unhinged (United States, 2016). A revised version of the film was released in 2022, titled Curse of the Macbeths.
  • Veeram (India, 2016) is a Malayalam language adaptation set in 13th century India.[43]
  • Il maledetto (Italy, 2017), Italian gangster adaption of Macbeth.[44]
    • Giulio Base, director
    • Nicola Nocella as Michele (Macbeth)
    • Ileana D'Ambra as Leda (Lady Macbeth)
  • Joji (India, 2021) is a Malayalam language crime drama based on Macbeth.[45]
  • Mandaar (India, 2021) is an Indian Bengali language crime thriller adaptation set in a fishing village in West Bengal, released as a web series and is available on Hoichoi.
  • Mayaa (India, 2023)[46]
    • Raajhorshee De, director

Theatrical performances within films

Another way in which filmmakers use Shakespearean texts is to feature characters who are actors performing those texts, within a wider non-Shakespearean story. In Opera, the 1987 Italian giallo horror film written and directed by Dario Argento and starring Cristina Marsillach, Urbano Barberini, and Ian Charleson; young opera singer Betty (Marsillach) is reluctantly thrust into the lead role in Verdi's Macbeth. During her first performance, a murder takes place in one of the opera boxes. Mysterious murders continue throughout the film as Betty is stalked and those around her meet their unfortunate end. During the final performance of the opera, the killer is revealed, and Betty must confront her past in a terrifying climax.

In Thane of East County, a 2015 American black and white film, actors in a production of Macbeth mirror the actions of the characters they portray.

See also

References

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