Julius Caesar
1953: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
This is still considered by many to be the best available production, despite some of its peculiarities and limitations. I’m still not quite ready to see Marlon “I coulda been a contender” Brando in a toga, and for me his flabby diction still gets in the way. But there are some rather capable acting forces here, including the inimitable James Mason and John Gielgud as Brutus and Cassius, respectively. I found relatively little about it to excite me, really, but that may be partly because Julius Caesar is not one of my very favorite Shakespeare plays.
Artemidorus: Morgan Farley
Brutus: James Mason
Calpurnia: Greer Garson
Carpenter, Citizen of Rome: John Doucette
Casca: Edmond O’Brien
Cassius: John Gielgud
Cicero: Alan Napier
Cinna: William Cottrell
Citizen of Rome: Alvin Hurwitz
Citizen of Rome: Ann Tyrrell
Citizen of Rome: David Bond
Citizen of Rome: Donald Elson
Citizen of Rome: Jo Gilbert
Citizen of Rome: John O’Malley
Citizen of Rome: Lawrence Dobkin
Citizen of Rome: Oliver Blake
Citizen of Rome: Paul Guilfoyle
Claudius: Preston Hanson
Clitus: Joseph Waring (as Joe Waring)
Dardanius: Stephen Roberts
Decius Brutus: John Hoyt
Flavius: Michael Pate
Julius Caesar: Louis Calhern
Lepidus: Douglass Dumbrille
Ligarius: Ian Wolfe
Lucilius: Rhys Williams
Lucius: John Hardy
Mark Antony: Marlon Brando
Marullus: George Macready
Messala: Dayton Lummis
Metellus Cimber: Tom Powers
Octavius Caesar: Douglass Watson (as Douglas Watson)
Officer to Octavius: Michael Tolan
Pindarus: Michael Ansara
Popilius Lena: Victor Perry
Portia: Deborah Kerr
Publius: Lumsden Hare
Servant to Antony: William Phipps (as Bill Phipps)
Servant to Caesar): Chet Stratton (as Chester Stratton
Soothsayer: Richard Hale
Strato: Edmund Purdom
Titinius: John Parrish
Trebonius: Jack Raine
Varro: John Lupton
Volumnius: Thomas Browne Henry
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