Notable Portrayals
- Hume Cronyn won a Tony Award for playing Polonius opposite Richard Burton's Hamlet in John Gielgud's 1964 Broadway production. No other actor has ever won an award for playing Polonius in any professional American stage version of Hamlet, nor for playing him in a film version of the play.
- In an episode of Gilligan's Island broadcast 3 October 1966, Phil Silvers performed a memorable send-up of Polonius' "Neither a borrower nor a lender be" speech in the role of a producer who appears on the island and stages a musical version of Hamlet with the castaways.
- Actors who have played Polonius on film and television include Ian Holm, Michael Redgrave, Ian Richardson, Oliver Ford Davies, Bill Murray, and Richard Briers.
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