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William Shakespeare

Playwright / Poet / Writer / Actor / Dramaturge | * 04/23/1564 († 52, 04/23/1616) | Baptised Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire (United Kingdom (UK))
William Shakespeare (bapt.Tooltip baptised 26 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon" (or simply "the Bard"). His extant works, including collaborations, consist of some 39 plays, 154 sonnets, three long narrative poems, and a few other verses, some of uncertain authorship. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright. Shakespeare remains arguably the most influential writer in the English language, and his works continue To Be studied and reinterpreted. Shakespeare was born and raised in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire. At the age of 18, he married Anne Hathaway, with whom he had three children: Susanna, and twins Hamnet and Judith. Sometime between 1585 and 1592, he began a successful career in London as an actor, writer, and part-owner ("sharer") of a playing company called the Lord Chamberlain's Men, later known as The King's Men after the as... ()
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Movies with William Shakespeare as Crew(481)

Writing/Theatre Play2024 Hamlet
Writing/Writer2023 Live at the Porpentine
Writing/Author2023 Richard II
Writing/Author2023 Hamlet
Writing/Theatre Play2023 King Lear
Writing/Original Story2023 'Amlet
Writing/Original Story2023 The Metropolitan Opera: Falstaff
Writing/Writer2023 Mayaa
Writing/Theatre Play2023 Mayaa
Writing/Story2023 Hamlet
Writing/Writer2022 Curse of the Macbeths
Writing/Original Concept2022 Cirkus
Writing/Adaptation2022 Tybalt and Mercutio
Writing/Theatre Play2021 Romeo & Juliet
Writing/Writer2021 Love in Eternity
Writing/Theatre Play2021 The Tragedy of Macbeth
Writing/Author2021 Sycorax
Writing/Theatre Play2021 R#J
Writing/Theatre Play2020 Rosalinda
Writing/Writer2020 Othello
Writing/Writer2020 Rómulo y Julita
Writing/Story2020 Shakespeare’s Shitstorm
Writing/Adaptation2020 Edgar
Writing/Theatre Play2020 Measure for Measure
Writing/Writer2019 Coriolanus
Writing/Original Story2019 The King
Writing/Author2019 The Tempest
Writing/Story2019 César
Writing/Author2018 RSC Live: Macbeth
Writing/Writer2018 Twelfth Night
Writing/Writer2018 Hamlet in the Golden Vale
Writing/Author2018 RSC Live: Romeo and Juliet
Writing/Writer2018 Twelfth Night
Writing/Theatre Play2018 National Theatre Live: Julius Caesar
Writing/Theatre Play2018 Hamlet
Writing/Writer2018 Hamlet
Writing/Writer2018 RSC Live: Twelfth Night
Writing/Characters2018 Sherlock Gnomes
Writing/Theatre Play2018 King Lear
Writing/Author2018 Timon of Athens
Writing/Author2018 Romeo and Juliet
Writing/Writer2018 Lear's Shadow
Writing/Book2018 Glyndebourne: Hamlet
Writing/Theatre Play2017 Julius Caesar
Writing/Theatre Play2017 National Theatre Live: Twelfth Night
Writing/Author2017 RSC Live: The Tempest
Writing/Writer2017 Hamlet
Writing/Author2017 Stratford Festival: Macbeth
Writing/Writer2017 Ambition's Debt
Writing/Author2017 Love's Labour's Lost
Writing/Author2017 RSC Live: Antony & Cleopatra
Writing/Theatre Play2017 A Midsummer Night's Dream
Writing/Writer2017 A Midsummer Night's Dream
Writing/Novel2017 Ophelia
Writing/Story2017 The Bank of Broken Hearts
Writing/Author2017 Richard III - version 3.0
Writing/Writer2017 Romeo and Juliet in Harlem
Writing/Screenplay2017 Hamlet
Writing/Author2017 RSC Live: Titus Andronicus
Writing/Writer2016 A Caribbean Dream
Writing/Author2016 The Taming of the Shrew
Writing/Writer2016 More Strange Than True
Writing/Novel2016 Hemanta
Writing/Writer2016 Othello
Writing/Author2016 King Lear
Writing/Writer2016 A Midsummer Night's Dream
Writing/Author2016 Gardaab
Writing/Theatre Play2016 Rahm
Writing/Original Story2016 Veeram
Writing/Author2016 RSC Live: Hamlet
Writing/Adaptation2016 Korol Lir
Writing/Author2016 The Adventures of Pericles
Writing/Author2016 Hamlet
Writing/Writer2016 The Complete Walk: Cymbeline
Writing/Original Story2015 Verdi: Otello
Writing/Writer2015 King Lear
Writing/Theatre Play2015 National Theatre Live: Hamlet
Writing/Teleplay2015 Hamlet: Son of a Kingpin
Writing/Theatre Play2015 Macbeth
Writing/Theatre Play2015 Verdi: Macbeth
Writing/Writer2015 Hamlet
Writing/Author2015 RSC Live: Othello
Writing/Original Story2015 The Moving Forest
Writing/Theatre Play2014 Cymbeline
Writing/Author2014 Down the Rabbit Hole
Writing/Theatre Play2014 Down the Rabbit Hole
Writing/Author2014 A Midsummer Night's Dream
Writing/Theatre Play2014 National Theatre Live: King Lear
Writing/Story2014 Hrid Majharey
Writing/Writer2014 Romeo and Juliet
Writing/Original Story2014 The Winter's Tale (The Royal Ballet)
Writing/Theatre Play2014 Haider
Writing/Theatre Play2013 Romeo & Juliet
Writing/Writer2013 Taming of the Shrew
Writing/Theatre Play2013 National Theatre Live: Macbeth
Writing/Writer2012 Twelfth Night
Writing/Story2012 Caesar Must Die
Writing/Original Story2012 Caesar Must Die
Writing/Theatre Play2012 To Be
Writing/Dialogue2012 To Be
Writing/Theatre Play2012 Much Ado About Nothing
Writing/Author2012 Much Ado About Nothing
Writing/Original Story2012 The Metropolitan Opera: Otello
Writing/Writer2012 Twelfth Night
Writing/Original Story2012 The Metropolitan Opera: The Tempest
Writing/Original Story2011 Private Romeo
Writing/Original Story2011 Verdi: Falstaff
Writing/Writer2011 Much Ado About Nothing
Writing/Author2011 Gnomeo & Juliet
Writing/Theatre Play2011 Coriolanus
Writing/Author2011 The Merry Wives of Windsor
Writing/Theatre Play2010 As You Like It
Writing/Theatre Play2010 Verona
Writing/Writer2010 Thomas: Hamlet
Writing/Writer2010 As You Like It
Writing/Original Story2010 Julius Caesar
Writing/Theatre Play2010 The Tempest
Writing/Theatre Play2010 Macbeth
Writing/Theatre Play2009 Doubt
Writing/Writer2009 Romeo & Julio
Writing/Writer2009 Hamlet
Writing/Original Story2009 A Midsummer Night's Dream
Writing/Original Story2009 Falstaff
Writing/Writer2009 Shakespeare’s Sonnets
Writing/Author2009 Macbeth
Writing/Writer2008 Gounod: Romeo et Juliette
Writing/Author2008 King Lear
Writing/Original Story2008 Verdi: Otello
Writing/Writer2007 Henry V
Writing/Writer2007 Village People Radio Show
Writing/Book2006 Rome and Juliet
Writing/Author2006 As You Like It
Writing/Theatre Play2006 Omkara
Writing/Writer2006 Omkara
Writing/Original Story2006 Macbeth
Writing/Theatre Play2006 Macbeth
Writing/Writer2005 Macbeth
Writing/Theatre Play2005 Midsummer Dream
Writing/Theatre Play2005 Much Ado About Nothing
Writing/Theatre Play2004 Huapango
Writing/Theatre Play2004 Souli
Writing/Theatre Play2004 The Merchant of Venice
Writing/Theatre Play2004 Macbeth
Writing/Original Story2003 Romeu e Julieta
Crew/Additional Dialogue2003 Replay
Writing/Writer2003 Hamlet
Writing/Theatre Play2003 Maqbool
Writing/Writer2003 Maqbool
Writing/Original Story2003 Twelfth Night, or What You Will
Writing/Original Story2003 As Alegres Comadres
Writing/Writer2002 The Street King
Writing/Writer2002 The Tragedy of Hamlet
Writing/Theatre Play2001 Makibefo
Writing/Writer2001 I’m Going Home
Writing/Writer2001 Scotland, PA
Writing/Screenplay2001 Rave Macbeth
Writing/Writer2001 The Merchant of Venice
Writing/Theatre Play2001 My Kingdom
Writing/Writer2001 Othello
Writing/Original Story2001 Otello
Writing/Author2000 Hamlet
Writing/Author2000 Hamlet
Writing/Author2000 The King Is Alive
Writing/Theatre Play2000 Love's Labour's Lost
Writing/Author2000 Love's Labour's Lost
Writing/Writer2000 Falstaff
Writing/Author1999 A Midsummer Night's Dream
Writing/Theatre Play1999 Titus
Writing/Story1999 A Midsummer Night's Dream
Writing/Writer1998 Stormen
Writing/Writer1998 King Lear
Writing/Theatre Play1998 Macbeth
Writing/Theatre Play1998 The Tempest
Writing/Writer1997 Richard II
Writing/Theatre Play1997 Macbeth Horror Suite
Writing/Writer1997 Macbeth
Writing/Original Story1997 Macbeth
Writing/Theatre Play1996 Tromeo & Juliet
Writing/Original Story1996 Looking for Richard
Writing/Theatre Play1996 Love Is All There Is
Writing/Author1996 Romeo + Juliet
Writing/Writer1996 A Midsummer Night's Dream
Writing/Theatre Play1996 Hamlet
Writing/Author1996 Hamlet
Writing/Theatre Play1996 Twelfth Night
Writing/Novel1996 Egyptian Lobster
Writing/Theatre Play1995 Richard III
Writing/Author1995 Richard III
Writing/Writer1995 Henry IV
Writing/Theatre Play1995 Othello
Writing/Author1994 Measure for Measure
Writing/Author1994 Romeo and Juliet
Writing/Author1993 Much Ado About Nothing
Writing/Writer1993 Romeo & Juliet
Writing/Theatre Play1992 As You Like It
Writing/Original Story1992 Otello
Writing/Writer1992 Macbeth
Writing/Original Story1992 Macbeth
Writing/Theatre Play1991 Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
Writing/Author1991 Men Of Respect
Writing/Theatre Play1991 Prospero's Books
Writing/Author1990 Hamlet
Writing/Theatre Play1990 En midsommarnattsdröm
Writing/Author1990 William Shakespeare's Hamlet
Writing/Writer1990 Othello
Writing/Author1989 Henry V
Writing/Theatre Play1989 Henry V
Writing/Writer1989 Othello
Writing/Theatre Play1988 Twelfth Night, or What You Will
Writing/Original Story1987 Verdi: Macbeth
Writing/Author1987 King Lear
Writing/Author1987 Macbeth
Writing/Theatre Play1987 Hamlet Goes Business
Writing/Writer1987 Twelfth Night
Writing/Novel1986 Otello
Writing/Theatre Play1986 Sen noci Svatojánské
Writing/Author1985 Love's Labour's Lost
Writing/Theatre Play1985 Titus Andronicus
Writing/Author1985 The Angelic Conversation
Writing/Book1985 Hamlet
Writing/Theatre Play1985 Ran
Writing/Writer1984 Romeo and Juliet
Writing/Theatre Play1984 The Life and Death of King John
Writing/Author1984 Much Ado About Nothing
Writing/Theatre Play1984 The Tragedy of Coriolanus
Writing/Author1984 Pericles, Prince of Tyre
Writing/Theatre Play1983 King Lear
Writing/Theatre Play1983 Macbeth
Writing/Theatre Play1983 Macbeth
Writing/Theatre Play1983 The Two Gentlemen of Verona
Writing/Theatre Play1983 The Comedy of Errors
Writing/Author1983 The Comedy of Errors
Writing/Theatre Play1983 Dream of a Summer Night
Writing/Author1983 Henry VI Part 3
Writing/Author1983 Henry VI Part 2
Writing/Author1983 Henry VI Part 1
Writing/Author1983 The Tragedy of Richard III
Writing/Author1983 As You Like It
Writing/Theatre Play1983 The Tempest
Writing/Writer1982 Angoor
Writing/Theatre Play1982 King Lear
Writing/Writer1982 The Taming of the Shrew
Writing/Author1982 The Merry Wives of Windsor
Writing/Story1982 Black Commando
Writing/Writer1982 The Tempest
Writing/Theatre Play1982 Tempest
Writing/Author1982 Cymbeline
Writing/Author1981 Othello
Writing/Theatre Play1981 Timon of Athens
Writing/Writer1981 Macbeth
Writing/Theatre Play1981 Othello
Writing/Theatre Play1981 A Midsummer Night's Dream
Writing/Original Story1981 A Midsummer Night's Dream
Writing/Theatre Play1981 Riccardo III
Writing/Author1981 All's Well That Ends Well
Writing/Theatre Play1981 The Winter's Tale
Writing/Theatre Play1981 Troilus & Cressida
Writing/Author1981 Antony & Cleopatra
Writing/Theatre Play1980 Twelfth Night
Writing/Author1980 The Tempest
Writing/Theatre Play1980 The Taming of the Shrew
Writing/Author1980 Hamlet
Writing/Author1980 The Merchant of Venice
Writing/Theatre Play1980 Othello
Writing/Writer1979 La fierecilla domada
Writing/Author1979 Measure for Measure
Writing/Writer1979 Macbeth
Writing/Theatre Play1979 Henry VIII
Writing/Theatre Play1979 Julius Caesar
Writing/Author1979 Henry V
Writing/Theatre Play1979 The Tempest
Writing/Theatre Play1979 William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night
Writing/Theatre Play1979 Henry IV Part 1
Writing/Author1979 Henry IV Part 2
Writing/Author1978 All's Well That Ends Well
Writing/Author1978 Romeo & Juliet
Writing/Author1978 As You Like It
Writing/Author1978 Richard II
Writing/Writer1978 Comedy of mistakes
Writing/Story1976 Hamlet
Writing/Writer1976 The Taming of the Shrew
Writing/Theatre Play1975 Love's Labour's Lost
Writing/Writer1975 Antony and Cleopatra
Writing/Theatre Play1974 Sen noci svatojánské
Writing/Writer1974 King Lear
Writing/Theatre Play1974 Catch My Soul
Writing/Writer1973 The Merchant of Venice
Writing/Theatre Play1973 Much Ado About Nothing
Writing/Theatre Play1973 One Hamlet Less
Writing/Theatre Play1973 Otello
Writing/Theatre Play1973 III. Richárd
Writing/Author1973 La Nuit des rois
Writing/Original Story1972 O Jogo da Vida e da Morte
Writing/Novel1972 Viola and Sebastian
Writing/Theatre Play1972 Antony and Cleopatra
Writing/Theatre Play1971 Macbeth
Writing/Theatre Play1971 Macbeth
Writing/Theatre Play1971 Faustão
Writing/Theatre Play1971 King Lear
Writing/Writer1970 Julius Caesar
Writing/Author1970 The Inheritance
Writing/Theatre Play1970 King Lear
Writing/Theatre Play1970 Hamlet
Writing/Theatre Play1969 A Midsummer Night's Dream
Writing/Author1969 The Merchant of Venice
Writing/Theatre Play1969 Twelfth Night
Writing/Author1969 Twelfth Night
Writing/Original Story1969 Hamlet
Writing/Theatre Play1968 Romeo and Juliet
Writing/Writer1968 Was Ihr wollt
Writing/Writer1968 A Midsummer Night's Dream
Writing/Theatre Play1968 What Are the Clouds?
Writing/Author1968 All's Well That Ends Well
Writing/Writer1967 Trettondagsafton
Writing/Original Story1967 Much Ado About Nothing
Writing/Theatre Play1967 The Taming of the Shrew
Writing/Writer1967 El mercader de Venecia
Writing/Theatre Play1966 Dva šlechtici z Verony
Writing/Author1965 Le roi Lear
Writing/Theatre Play1965 Julio César
Writing/Theatre Play1965 Othello
Writing/Theatre Play1965 Chimes at Midnight
Writing/Story1965 Nichts als Sünde
Writing/Writer1965 The Wars of the Roses
Writing/Writer1964 Hamlet at Elsinore
Writing/Writer1964 Hamile: The Tongo Hamlet
Writing/Theatre Play1964 A Midsummer Night's Dream
Writing/Story1964 Bloody Castle
Writing/Story1964 Viel Lärm um nichts
Writing/Theatre Play1964 Romeo e Giulietta
Writing/Theatre Play1964 Hamlet
Writing/Novel1963 Antonius und Cleopatra
Writing/Author1963 As You Like It
Writing/Original Story1961 MacBeth
Writing/Author1961 Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
Writing/Novel1961 The Taming of the Shrew
Writing/Writer1960 The Tempest
Writing/Writer1960 The Ballet of Othello
Writing/Theatre Play1960 Little Hamlet
Writing/Story1960 Castle of Flames
Writing/Theatre Play1959 A Midsummer Night's Dream
Writing/Writer1959 The Rest Is Silence
Writing/Writer1958 Kiss Me, Kate
Writing/Theatre Play1957 Throne of Blood
Writing/Story1955 Othello
Writing/Theatre Play1955 Twelfth Night
Writing/Theatre Play1955 Richard III
Writing/Theatre Play1955 Joe Macbeth
Writing/Book1955 Romeo & Juliet
Writing/Story1955 Fitna and Hassan
Writing/Writer1955 Othello
Writing/Writer1954 Romeo and Juliet
Writing/Theatre Play1953 Kiss Me Kate
Writing/Theatre Play1953 Julius Caesar
Writing/Theatre Play1953 The Merchant of Venice
Writing/Writer1951 Romeo at Julieta
Writing/Theatre Play1951 Othello
Writing/Author1951 Othello
Writing/Novel1950 Julius Caesar
Writing/Story1950 The Merry Wives of Windsor
Writing/Novel1948 Cartas Marcadas
Writing/Novel1948 Macbeth
Writing/Author1948 Hamlet
Writing/Theatre Play1944 Henry V
Writing/Writer1943 Kata, the Shrew
Writing/Theatre Play1943 Romeo y Julieta
Writing/Theatre Play1936 Romeo and Juliet
Writing/Writer1936 Romeo and Juliet
Writing/Writer1936 As You Like It
Writing/Theatre Play1935 A Midsummer Night's Dream
Writing/Theatre Play1935 The Immortal Gentleman
Writing/Writer1933 Twelfth Night
Writing/Theatre Play1933 Hamlet, Act I: Scenes IV and V
Writing/Theatre Play1931 A Spray of Plum Blossoms
Writing/Writer1929 The Taming of the Shrew
Writing/Theatre Play1925 Ein Sommernachtstraum
Writing/Theatre Play1923 The Merchant of Venice
Writing/Original Story1923 The Taming of the Shrew
Writing/Novel1921 Hamlet
Writing/Original Story1920 Othello
Writing/Original Story1919 Romeo and Juliet
Writing/Original Story1919 The Merchant of Venice
Writing/Theatre Play1918 Othello
Writing/Original Story1917 Hamlet
Writing/Theatre Play1916 Romeo and Juliet
Writing/Author1916 The Real Thing at Last
Writing/Theatre Play1916 Romeo and Juliet
Writing/Theatre Play1916 Macbeth
Writing/Theatre Play1916 King Lear
Writing/Author1915 Love in a Wood
Writing/Theatre Play1914 Othello
Writing/Theatre Play1914 The Merchant of Venice
Writing/Writer1913 Hamlet
Writing/Theatre Play1913 Šaty dělají člověka
Writing/Theatre Play1913 Cymbeline
Writing/Author1912 As You Like It
Writing/Novel1912 Romeo e Giulietta
Writing/Theatre Play1912 Indian Romeo and Juliet
Writing/Theatre Play1911 The Merchant of Venice
Writing/Theatre Play1910 Cléopâtre
Writing/Theatre Play1910 King Lear
Writing/Theatre Play1910 Twelfth Night
Writing/Theatre Play1910 The Winter's Tale
Writing/Theatre Play1909 A Midsummer Night's Dream
Writing/Theatre Play1909 Romeo Turns Bandit
Writing/Theatre Play1909 Macbeth
Writing/Theatre Play1908 The Taming of the Shrew
Writing/Theatre Play1908 Richard III
Writing/Theatre Play1908 Julius Caesar, an Historical Tragedy
Writing/Theatre Play1908 The Tempest
Writing/Writer1905 Duel Scene from Macbeth
Writing/Theatre Play1899 King John

TV Shows/Series with William Shakespeare as Crew(8)

Writing/Theatre Play2012 The Hollow Crown
Writing/Theatre Play2005 ShakespeaRe-Told
Writing/Original Story1992 Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
Writing/Writer1984 Playing Shakespeare
Writing/Original Story1984 Playing Shakespeare
Writing/Writer1972 ABC Afterschool Special
Writing/Writer1971 Great Performances
Writing/Writer1950 Sunday Night Theatre

Full Name: William Shakespeare
Born: Thursday, 04/23 1564 (April) in Baptised Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire (United Kingdom (UK))
Died: Saturday, 04/23 1616 (April) in Stratford-upon-Avon (aged: 52)
Zodiac sign: Taurus (Chinese zodiac sign: Rat)
Languages: English (EN), British English, Early Modern English
Educated at: King Edward VI School, Stratford-upon-Avon
Spouses (current/former): Anne Hathaway
Children: Susanna Hall, Hamnet Shakespeare, Judith Quiney
Siblings: Joan Shakespeare, Edmund Shakespeare, Gilbert Shakespeare, Richard Shakespeare, Anne Shakespeare, Margaret Shakespeare
Father: John Shakespeare
Mother: Mary Shakespeare
Influenced by/Role models: Plautus, Plutarch, Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Kyd, Ovid, Seneca
Other names for William Shakespeare (nicknames, foreign languages etc.):
"William Shakespare"
"William 'Budd' Shakespeare"
"Will Shakespeare"
"Уильям Шекспир"
"W. Shakespeare"
"The Bard of Avon" (Nickname)
William Shakespeare frequently works together with these people:
Kenneth Branagh (27x, Actor)
Carmelo Bene (22x, Crew)
Orson Welles (21x, Actor)
Barry Avrich (18x, Crew)
Laurence Olivier (17x, Actor)
Vishal Bhardwaj (14x, Crew)
Giuseppe Verdi (14x, Crew)
John Gielgud (12x, Actor)
George Roulston (11x, Crew)
Giuseppe Cannas (11x, Crew)
Patrick Doyle (10x, Crew)
Marius Goring (8x, Actor)
WatchPlayStream ID: PEOPLE:5780, Added: 03/23/2018, Last updated: 04/08/2024