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- BFI identifier42908
- Date1955 (Copyright)
1956-04-16 (Release) - Production countryUnited Kingdom
- Production company
- SynopsisFilm adaptation of the play by William Shakespeare. (Synopsis)
- Work historyA credit in the opening titles, immediately after the "by William Shakespeare" credit reads: "With some interpolations by David Garrick, Colley Cibber etc."
- Genre
- CreditsDirected by: Laurence Olivier
©: London Film Productions Ltd
Production Company: Big Ben Films
view all - CastSir Cedric Hardwicke (King Edward IV of England) adherent to the House of York
Nicholas Hannen (archbishop)
Laurence Olivier (Richard, Duke of Gloucester, afterwards King Richard III) adherent to the House of York
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Title
Richard III (Original)
Richard the Third (Help search)
EIDR identifier
10.5240/81C5-1A2A-0775-3352-BC9F-TCategory
FictionThis work is included in the BFI Filmography.
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- Film / Video
16mm Reversal Colour Positive - Safety - Combined - Viewing
view all - Scripts / DocumentsScript - Original story: Based on the play by William Shakespeare - SCR-15158
Ephemera: publicity - PBS-42908
Richard III - Papers relating to Helga Cranston's work on Richard III (1955) including production stills and an extract from her memoir describing her time working on the film - HCR-2
Photograph - Richard III (1955) produced and directed by Laurence Olivier. File containing forty six black and white production stills including: - Laurence Olivier at work behind the scenes on the film - LO in costume and makeup - Salvador Dali's painted impression of LO as Richard III - LO relaxing on the beach topless but with Richard III 'nose' - location and studio shots - battle scenes - Claire Bloom, Mary Kerridge two colour production stills - LO with Ralph Richardson [Buckingham] - LO standing in front of his throne - small black & white photograph of LO and HC arriving at Madrid airport in 1955 for the filming of the battle scenes Note: These items are housed in a Timecare box folder with HCR-1-1 [stills from Hamlet (1948)] - HCR-2-1
'Extract from memoirs 'Richard III' - Extract from memoirs of Helga Cranston Keller, July 2007, Herzlia, Israel in which HC recalls her time working with Olivier on the editing of Richard III (1955), 12 pages, typescript c. 2007 - HCR-2-2
Small pressbook held. See FILM PROGRAMMES. See SIR DAVID CUNYNGHAME Collection (Item 5), and for example of booking form see CINEMA EPHEMERA: REGIONS (Gerrards Cross Essoldo).
view all - Posters / DesignsPolish Poster created in 1957 Dom Slowa Polskiego, zam. 5303 nakl. 3000 B-24 - SPD-7206518
Poster: film - Single Sheet, Landscape, 1017mm X 763mm Poster - PD-1282
Poster: film - Single sheet landscape - PD-1283
Poster: film - Single Sheet, portrait format - PD-1284
Poster: film - Single sheet landscape - PD-17829
view all - StillsPhotograph: print - Landscape - Black and White - bfi-00n-yjz
Photograph: print - Portrait - Black and White - bfi-00n-99r
Photograph: print - Portrait - Black and White - bfi-00n-99q
Photograph: print - Portrait - Black and White - bfi-00n-2nc
Photograph: transparency - Landscape - Colour - bfi-00o-6sr
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Work - 42908 - 1955 (Copyright)
United Kingdom - Film - Fiction
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