The cast included Judi Dench, Kenneth Branagh, Derek Jacobi, and Simon Russell Beale.

In his autobiography Beginning, Kenneth Branagh says that he was one of the finalists for the role of Mozart, but was dropped from consideration when Forman decided to make the film with an American cast.

The movie was written by Loring Mandel, directed by Frank Pierson, and starred an ensemble cast, including Kenneth Branagh as Reinhard Heydrich and Stanley Tucci as Adolf Eichmann.

Other contemporary British film directors include Paul W. S. Anderson, Andrea Arnold, Richard Attenborough, Kenneth Branagh, Danny Boyle, Terence Davies, Mike Figgis, Terry Gilliam, Tom Hooper, Mike Leigh, Ken Loach, Sam Mendes, Alan Parker, Sally Potter, Lynne Ramsay, Guy Ritchie, Michael Winterbottom, Edgar Wright, Joe Wright and Matthew Vaughn.

Shakespeare experts Sir John Gielgud and Kenneth Branagh consider the definitive rendition of the Bard's tragic tale to be the 1964 Russian film Gamlet () based on a translation by Boris Pasternak and directed by Grigori Kozintsev, with a score by Dmitri Shostakovich.

Branagh set the film with late 19th-century costuming and furnishings ; and Blenheim Palace, built in the early 18th century, became Elsinore Castle in the external scenes.

* In the commentary for the 2011 film Thor, director Kenneth Branagh hypothesized that Thor's Hammer is composed of neutronium, since it is explicitly stated in the film that the hammer was forged from a dying star.

The second major film, directed by and starring Kenneth Branagh in 1989, attempts to give a more realistic evocation of the period and lays more emphasis on the horrors of war.

** Henry V ( 1989 film ), a film adaptation of Shakespeare's play, directed by Kenneth Branagh

Sir Kenneth Charles Branagh ( ; born 10 December 1960 ) is an actor and film director from Northern Ireland.

* Kenneth Branagh ( born 1960 ), actor and film director

On 7 September 2006, Kenneth Branagh announced at the Venice Film Festival his new film of the play, with the screenplay by Nobel laureate Harold Pinter.

Peter's Friends is a 1992 British comedy-drama film written by Rita Rudner and her husband Martin Bergman, and directed and produced by Kenneth Branagh.

At the time the film was made, Branagh was married to Thompson, who had also dated Laurie during their university days.

Adapted scenes in flashback from Henry IV are included in the 1989 film version of Henry V ( 1989 ) with Robbie Coltrane portraying Sir John Falstaff and Kenneth Branagh playing the young Prince Hal.

Chaney is the subject of a documentary feature called Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces ( 2000 ), produced by silent film expert Kevin Brownlow and narrated by Kenneth Branagh.

Everett's break came in 1981 at the Greenwich Theatre and later West End production of Another Country, playing a gay schoolboy opposite Kenneth Branagh, followed by a film version in 1984 with Cary Elwes and Colin Firth.

He allowed Kenneth Branagh to film his production of Hamlet at the ducal palace of Blenheim, and appeared in a small cameo in the motion picture.

Significant changes were made to Dr. Loveless ( played by Kenneth Branagh in the film ).

He was offended at the racial aspects of the film, as well as the casting of Branagh as a double amputee, rather than a little-person actor, in the role of Loveless.

* In 2004, a film version was released, starring Kenneth Branagh, Freddie Highmore, Zoë Wanamaker, Jonathan Bailey, and Norman Wisdom, with Eddie Izzard as the voice of the Psammead.

The film Shackleton ( 2002 ) starred Kenneth Branagh and was shot on location in the Arctic winning the BAFTA for Best Series and Best Costume, and the Radio Times Audience award for ‘ Best Drama 2002 ’, it was also nominated for 7 Primetime Emmys, winning for music and photography.

The last film shown at La Charette was a black-tie premiere of Danny Boyle's Alien Love Triangle attended by Kenneth Branagh and organised by Observer film critic Mark Kermode.

Branagh took this insight a step further and turned the play into a musical, going much further in his adaptation of the play than he had ever done in his Shakespeare films, and risking the alienation of both audiences and serious critics.

Flaws ( most of which are minor ) aside, Love's Labour's Lost is an enjoyable trifle, especially for those who don't take their Shakespeare too seriously and those who love the old Hollywood musicals as much as Branagh obviously does.

Finally, three lost both nominations: Beatty ( for Heaven Can Wait ), Branagh, and Welles ( though he did win a Screenplay Oscar for Citizen Kane ).

Branagh has been nominated for five Academy Awards, five Golden Globes, and has won an Emmy and three BAFTAs.

Branagh achieved some early measure of success in his native Northern Ireland for his role as the title character in the BBC's Play for Today trilogy known as the Billy Plays ( 1982 – 84 ), written by Graham Reid and set in Belfast.

Branagh became a major presence in the media and on the British stage when Renaissance collaborated with Birmingham Rep for a 1988 touring season of three Shakespeare plays under the umbrella title of Renaissance Shakespeare on the Road, which also played a repertory season at the Phoenix Theatre in London.

It featured directorial debuts for Judi Dench with Much Ado About Nothing ( starring Branagh and Samantha Bond

Alexander portrayed Eleanor Roosevelt in two television productions, Eleanor and Franklin ( 1976 ) and Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years ( 1977 ); and she played FDR's mother, Sara Delano Roosevelt, in HBO's Warm Springs ( 2005 ) with Kenneth Branagh and Cynthia Nixon, a role which garnered her an Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actress.

Some critics thought Kenneth Branagh portrayed Iago as a homosexual, thus giving a possible motive of sexual desire for Othello, jealousy of Desdemona, and rage at the impossibility of his love for Othello being requited.

Kenneth Branagh landed the lead role in The Billy Trilogy, in the BBC Play for Today series, after it was advertised in the paper.

One of the most recent was The Lady ’ s Not For Burning for Yorkshire TV, starring Kenneth Branagh, in 1987.

Roger Ebert, noted critic of the Chicago Sun-Times, gave the film a glowing four star review, drawing comparisons to the works of Orson Welles and Alfred Hitchcock, stating, " Dead Again is Kenneth Branagh once again demonstrating that he has a natural flair for bold theatrical gesture.

Online critic James Berardinelli highly praised the film, giving it three-and-a-half out of four stars, stating, " No current film maker appears to love and understand Shakespeare as well as Branagh, and never has his affection for the Bard been more apparent than here.

Faceless Killers has also been adapted into a 90-minute television episode for the BBC's Wallander series starring Kenneth Branagh as Wallander.

Branagh won an Emmy Award for Best Actor, and Tucci was awarded a Golden Globe for his supporting role as Eichmann.

Peter's friends are Andrew ( Branagh ), now a writer in Hollywood ; married jingle writers Roger ( Laurie ) and Mary ( Staunton ); glamorous costume designer Sarah ( Emmanuel ); and eccentric Maggie ( Thompson ), who works in publishing.

He attended RADA in the late 1970s, studying alongside Kenneth Branagh ; the two would work together on many occasions later in their careers.

The released version retains only about a quarter of Shakespeare's lines ; although Branagh managed to include all seventeen of the original speaking roles, some ( most notably among the lower-class characters ) are cut almost to nothing.

She starred with Judi Dench, Michael Gambon and Kenneth Branagh in a 1987 BBC adaptation of the Henrik Ibsen play Ghosts ; with Maggie Smith and Rob Lowe in a 1993 BBC adaptation of Suddenly, Last Summer by Tennessee Williams ; portrayed Zelda Fitzgerald in the 1993 television movie Zelda ; and starred in Haven ( 2001 ) on CBS and The Mastersons of Manhattan ( 2007 ) on NBC.

As it happened, her renown and readership developed substantially after her death ; a television serialisation of Fortunes of War starring Emma Thompson and Kenneth Branagh finally came to fruition in 1987, bringing her work to a wider audience.

At the Young Vic he directed A Servant To Two Masters ( national & international tour & West End ), As I Lay Dying, Twelfth Night, Blood Wedding, The Jungle Book, Grimm Tales (& international tour ), More Grimm Tales (& Broadway ), The Slab Boys Trilogy, Oedipus ; for the National Theatre: Haroun and the Sea of Stories, The Epic of Gilgamesh, Billy Liar ( national tour ), Accidental Death of an Anarchist ( national tour ), Whale, Romeo and Juliet, The Villains Opera ; for the RSC: Midnight ’ s Children ( Barbican, national tour & Apollo Theatre, New York ), Love in a Wood, Tales from Ovid ( Young Vic ), The Comedy of Errors ( national / international tour & Young Vic ), Spring Awakening: for Kenneth Branagh ’ s Renaissance Theatre Company: Coriolanus ( with Branagh, Judi Dench, Richard Briers and Iain Glenn ) and Traveling Tales.

Since 1991, Briggs has worked steadily as a " writer for hire " on largely studio-based productions, including Freddy vs. Jason, Judge Dredd, the original period version of The War of the Worlds ( which had two abortive attempts at production ; the first with Kenneth Branagh in 1995 ; and then later with Tom Cruise's production company in 1998, both of which were thwarted by legal reasons ), and numerous other projects.

Ripley's early television and film career was characterised by minor roles as prostitutes or mistresses ; in what was to be her film debut, she filmed two scenes as a prostitute in the film Frankenstein ( Kenneth Branagh, 1994 ).

Although Renaissance received no public funding, it partnered in 1988 with John Adams and the Birmingham Rep on a touring season of plays launched as Renaissance Shakespeare on the Road, with three classical actors making their directing debuts: Judi Dench with Much Ado About Nothing ; Geraldine McEwan with As You Like It ; and Derek Jacobi with Hamlet, which featured Branagh in the title role.

A long career in TV followed seeing him play a wide variety of characters including ' Marcus Bannerman ' in the World War I era drama series by Russell T. Davies The Grand in 1999 ; ' Joseph Bazalgette ' the great Victorian industrial engineer in the award winning factual drama / doc Seven Great Industrial Wonders of the World in 2002 ; and ' Tom Crean ' the Irish companion of Ernest Shackleton in Shackleton opposite Kenneth Branagh ; and ' Niven Craig ' in Peter Medak's Let Him Have It.