Comedy TV Movie
Dame Maggie Smith stars in the 1967 screen version of Franco Zeffirelli's exuberant National Theatre production of Shakespeare's romantic comedy, in which young lovers Hero and Claudio conspire to make sharp-tongued rivals Beatrice and Benedick fall in love with each other.
Directed by
Alan Cooke
Written by
Robert Graves
Ronald Pickup
Don Pedro
Christopher Timothy
Server / Inanimate
Michael Byrne
Claudio
Ron Pember
Second Watchman
John McEnery
A Gentleman
Graham Crowden
Verges
John Hallam
Other Watchman
Robert Stephens
Benedick
Edward Petherbridge
Conrade
Derek Jacobi
Don John
Barry Evans
Coffee Boy
Maggie Smith
Beatrice
Michael Gambon
Other Watchman
Frank Finlay
Dogberry
Caroline John
Hero
David Ryall
The Sexton
David Hargreaves
Borachio
Denis DeMarne
A Lord
Gerald James
Leonato
Carolyn Jones
Margaret
Harry Lomax
Antonio
Wynne Clark
Ursula
Neil Fitzpatrick
Batlthasar
Malcolm Reynolds
The Messenger
Chloe Ashcroft
Woman of Leonato's Household
Mary Griffiths
Woman of Leonato's Household
Roger Kemp
First Watchman
David Belcher
Other Watchman
Paul Curran
Friar Francis

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