1908 | The Kalem Company of New York produced the first silent film version of As You Like It. |
1912 | The Vitagraph Company of America made the next silent film of the play, starring Rose Coghlan, then aged sixty-one, as Rosalind. |
1936 | Though still in black and white, Paul Czinner made the first movie of As You Like It with sound, directing his wife Elisabeth Bergner as Rosalind. Advised by J.M. Barrie, edited by David Lean and with music by William Walton, the film also starred Laurence Olivier in his first on-screen Shakespearean role as Orlando. |
1963 | As You Like It was a BBC TV version of the Royal Shakespeare Company stage production of 1961-2, directed by Michael Elliott and starring Vanessa Redgrave as Rosalind. |
1978 | As part of the BBC TV series first conceived by Cedric Messina to film all Shakespeare’s plays, Basil Coleman’s film of As You Like It was shot on location at Glamis Castle in Scotland and cast Helen Mirren as Rosalind. It was first transmitted in the UK in 1978 and in the USA in 1979. |
1992 | Christine Edzard directed a colour video film of As You Like It released in the UK. Emma Croft played Rosalind in blue jeans and a bobble hat looking convincingly boyish. |
1995 | Videotape of the all-male Cheek by Jowl stage production of As You Like It, filmed at the Albery Theatre, 11 February 1995, lodged in the National Video Archive of Stage performances, Theatre Museum and Federation of Entertainment Unions. |
2006 | Kenneth Branagh directed his movie of As You Like It set in nineteenth-century Japan and filmed in the gardens of Wakehurst Place, Sussex, with an all-star cast. Alfred Molina was Touchstone, Janet McTeer Audrey, Brian Blessed played both Dukes, Richard Briers took the part of old Adam which Shakespeare himself may once have played, Kevin Kline was Jaques, Adrian Lester played Oliver de Boys, David Oyelowo his brother Orlando, and Romola Garai was Celia to the Rosalind of Bryce Dallas Howard. |
2009 | Shakespeare’s Globe released a DVD of their Summer 2009 production, shot at the theatre on 6 and 8 October 2009, directed by Thea Sharrock with Naomi Frederick as Rosalind. |