Film
Richard has been portrayed by the following actors on film, mostly in versions of the Shakespeare play:
- William V. Ranous in the silent short Richard III (1908), dramatising a part of Shakespeare's play
- Frank Benson in the silent short Richard III (1911), also dramatising a part of Shakespeare's play
- Frederick Warde in the silent Shakespeare adaptation Richard III (1912), one of the earliest American feature films
- Rolf Leslie in the silent film Jane Shore (1915), an adaptation of the play The Tragedy of Jane Shore by Nicholas Rowe
- Basil Rathbone in Tower of London (1939), a horror film loosely dramatising Richard's rise to power
- Lowell Gilmore in The Black Arrow (1948), a dramatisation of the novel The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses by Robert Louis Stevenson
- Laurence Olivier in the Shakespeare adaptation Richard III (1955), for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor and won the BAFTA Award for Best British Actor
- Vincent Price in the remake of Tower of London (1962); Price had played the Duke of Clarence in the original film
- Ramaz Chkhikvadze in a Russian version of the Shakespeare play, Richard III (1980)
- Ariel García Valdés in a French version of the Shakespeare play, Richard III (1986)
- Ian McKellen in Richard III (1995), set during an imaginary 20th Century, for which he was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role
- Jamie Martin in Richard III (2005), a modernised version set on a Brighton housing estate
- Scott Anderson in Richard III (2008), a modern day version
- In a play within a play in Neil Simon's 1977 film The Goodbye Girl, Richard Dreyfuss reluctantly portrays Richard as overtly homosexual at the insistence of an avant-garde director.
In addition, Looking for Richard is a 1996 feature documentary about putting on the play, directed by and starring Al Pacino.
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