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Julius Caesar (1951, Leonard Brett)

TitleJulius Caesar
Year1951
Release LocationsGB
DirectorLeonard Brett
MediumVideo
Length2 hrs, 7 mins
Play ConnectionsJulius Caesar (teleplay)

Description

Another ambitious televised version of Julius Caesar on which the producers lavished nearly £2,000 and for which they enlisted the services of some 63 actors, principals and extras. By 1951 television audiences were sufficiently large so that Mr. Harrison expected to receive "shoals of letters from clever viewers pointing out the anachonisms" in his production, which he of course deliberately employed (WAC [TS/272] Feb. 28, 1951). After all one of the most often cited anachronisms in the canon appears in this play—the clock that strikes long before clocks were invented

Description from Shakespeare on Screen : an International Filmography and Videography by Kenneth S. Rothwell and Annabelle Henkin Melzer. ©1990 Kenneth S. Rothwell. Cited by permission. — Added 2008-11-14

Cast Overview

Julius CaesarWalter Hudd
Mark AntonyAnthony Hawtrey
OctaviusRichard Bebb
LepidusEric Berry
CalpurniaMary Hinton
Popilius/PlebeianJohn Dunbar
BrutusPatrick Barr
Decius Brutus/ClitusJohn Gatrell
CassiusClement McCallin
CascaMichael Brennan
Trebonius/VolumniusPeter Bathurst
Cimber/TiminiusEdmund Purdom
Cinna/LuciliusTom Colmer
PortiaMargaret Diamond
Flavius/VolumniusPeter Bathurst
MarullusEric Berry
Artemidorus/PindarusAlan Reid
SoothsayerJohn Vere
Cinna, A Poet/DardaniusTerence Greenidge
Messala/ServantAnthony Oliver
Strato/ServantJohn Arnold
More Citizensnot specified

Production Team and Crew Overview

DirectorLeonard Brett
ProducerStephen Harrison

Production information courtesy of: Kenneth Rothwell