Film and Television
Edward has been played on film and television by:
- Alfred Brydone in the silent short Richard III (1911), dramatising a part of Shakespeare's play
- Robert Gemp in the silent Shakespeare adaptation Richard III (1912)
- Roy Travers in the silent film Jane Shore (1915), an adaptation of the play The Tragedy of Jane Shore by Nicholas Rowe
- Ian Hunter in Tower of London (1939), a horror film loosely dramatising the rise to power of Richard III
- Cedric Hardwicke in Richard III, with Laurence Olivier
- Julian Glover in the BBC series An Age of Kings (1960), which contained all the history plays from Richard II to Richard III
- Justice Watson in the remake of Tower of London (1962)
- Benno Sterzenbach in the West German TV version of Shakespeare's play König Richard III (1964)
- József Gáti in III. Richárd (1973), a Hungarian version of the Shakespeare play
- Brian Protheroe in the BBC Shakespeare versions of Henry VI, Part 2, Henry VI, Part 3 and The Tragedy of Richard the Third (1983)
- Marc Betton in a French film version of Richard III (1986)
- Roy Dotrice in the BBC series The Wars of the Roses (1989), which included all of Shakespeare's history plays performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company
- John Wood in Richard III (1995), with Ian McKellen as Richard
- Harris Yulin in the film documentary Looking for Richard (1996)
- John Rackham in Richard III (2005), a modernised version set on a Brighton housing estate
- Walter Williamson in Richard III (2007), a modern day version
- Max Irons in The White Queen (2013), tv series
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