Often credited with creating a popular movie audience for Shakespeare, Kenneth Branagh has wanted for many years to bring to the screen the complete, full-length version of Hamlet, Shakespeare's greatest play. "The film, like the play, will have something for everyone," he says. "Its a ghost story, [...]
In "Beginning," Academy Award nominee Kenneth Branagh charts the ups and downs of a life in acting - a young career that has made him the most acclaimed actor of his generation. Opening with his childhood in working-class Belfast, in a neighborhood of drinkers and dreamers, Branagh describes the fir[...]
Kenneth Branagh plays Shakespeare?s Richard III in this new recording for the acclaimed Naxos AudioBooks series. A full supporting cast of distinguished actors performs the complete, unabridged New Cambridge Shakespeare text of the play, with sound effects and accompanying music. The set of three cd[...]
Prose that demands to be read aloud requires a special kind of narrator. For the Audible Signature Classics edition of Joseph Conrad s atmospheric masterpiece, Heart of Darkness, we called upon four-time Academy Award nominee Kenneth Branagh. Branagh s performance is riveting because he reads as tho[...]
A collection contains the title novella, a minutely-observed look at life in a village through the eyes of one family, as well as eleven short stories, including a wry look at morals and manners in The Chorus Girl, and a melancholic tale of a cab driver in Misery. Read by Kenneth Branagh.[...]