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Much Ado About Nothing

5.5 130 mins Comedy   TV Movie   1967
BBC TV   National Theatre  
Director(s): Alan Cooke

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.

Casts of Much Ado About Nothing

Maggie Smith

as Beatrice

Robert Stephens

as Benedick

Frank Finlay

as Dogberry

Michael Byrne

as Claudio

Caroline John

as Hero

Derek Jacobi

as Don John

Ronald Pickup

as Don Pedro

Denis DeMarne

as A Lord

Gerald James

as Leonato

Harry Lomax

as Antonio

Wynne Clark

as Ursula

Carolyn Jones

as Margaret

Edward Petherbridge

as Conrade

David Hargreaves

as Borachio

Neil Fitzpatrick

as Batlthasar

Malcolm Reynolds

as The Messenger

Chloe Ashcroft

as Woman of Leonato's Household

Mary Griffiths

as Woman of Leonato's Household

Barry Evans

as Coffee Boy

John McEnery

as A Gentleman

Graham Crowden

as Verges

David Ryall

as The Sexton

Roger Kemp

as First Watchman

Ron Pember

as Second Watchman

David Belcher

as Other Watchman

Michael Gambon

as Other Watchman

John Hallam

as Other Watchman

Paul Curran

as Friar Francis

Christopher Timothy

as Server / Inanimate

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