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Julius Caesar (1970, Stuart Burge)

TitleJulius Caesar
Year1970
Release LocationsGB
DirectorStuart Burge
MediumColor video
Length1 hrs, 57 mins
Audiencegeneral public
Play ConnectionsJulius Caesar (interpretation)

Description

This was a film that grew out of Stuart Burge's experience in directing a BBC television Julius Caesar that was transmitted on May 5, 1959 (see 218), as well as with a subsequent London stage production

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 CaesarJohn Gielgud
AntonyCharlton Heston
Octavius CaesarRichard Chamberlain
LepidusDavid Dodimead
CalpurniaJill Bennett
CiceroAndre Morell
PubliusEdward Finn
Popilius LenaJohn Moffatt
BrutusJason Robards
CassiusRichard Johnson
CascaRobert Vaughn
TreboniusPreston Lockwood
Decius BrutusDerek Godfrey
Metellus CimberMichael Gough
CinnaDavid Neal
PortiaDiana Rigg
FlaviusThomas Heathcote
MarullusAlan Browning
ArtemidorusChristopher Lee
Cinna The PoetPeter Eyre
LucilliusRobert Keegan
TitiniusNorman Bowler
MessalaPaul Hardwick
VolumniusAndrew Crawford
ClitusJohn Tate
StratoEwan Hooper
LuciusSteven Pacey
PindarusDamien Thomas
CastDerek Hardwicke
CarpenterLaurence Harrington
CastKen Hutchinson
CastMichael Keating
CobblerRon Pember
CastMichael Wynne

Production Team and Crew Overview

DirectorStuart Burge
ProducerPeter Snell
EditorEric Boyd Perkins
ComposerMichael Lewis
Adaptor/TranslatorRobert Furnival
CameraKen Higgins
ProductionJulia Trevelyan Oman
ProductionMaurice Pelling

Production information courtesy of: Kenneth Rothwell