Derek Jacobi as Hamlet

Claire Bloom as Gertrude

Patrick Stewart as Claudius

Eric Porter as Polonius

Lalla Ward as Ophelia

David Robb as Laertes

Robert Swann as Horatio

Patrick Allen as Ghost of Hamlet's Father

Emrys James as Player King

Jason Kemp as Player Queen

Geoffrey Beevers as Third Player / Lucianus

Bill Homewood as Player King in the mime

Peter Richard as Player Queen in the mime

Terence McGinity as Player Lucianus in the mime

Peter Burroughs as Player

Stuart Fell as Player

Ian Charleson as Fortinbras

Tim Wylton as First Gravedigger

Peter Benson as Second Gravedigger

Paul Humpoletz as Marcellus

Niall Padden as Bernardo

Christopher Baines as Francisco

John Humphry as Voltimand

John Sterland as Cornelius

Peter Gale as Osric

Raymond Mason as Reynaldo

Dan Meaden as Norwegian Captain

Iain Blair as Sailor

Reginald Jessup as Messenger

Michael Poole as Priest

Geoffrey Bateman as Guildenstern

David Henry as English Ambassador

Jonathan Hyde as Rosencrantz