This should be called "Ian Richardson Performs Shakespeare in 1969 While Patrick Stewart Watches."

@perfectcell2301

5 жыл бұрын

Lol true

@Parknest

3 жыл бұрын

You might very well think that; I couldn't possibly comment (House of Cards reference).

@starter47990

3 жыл бұрын

Exactly. Pat Stewart didn't say anything

@DrDolan2000

3 жыл бұрын

Seriously

@Brando64

3 жыл бұрын

@@Parknest😂😂😂

"Computer, freeze program."

@halon7476

7 жыл бұрын

GPD W Ha ha. Well said!

@joemasters2270

7 жыл бұрын

XD XD XD

@nemass26

6 жыл бұрын

GPD W riker to captain picard cone to holodeck 3

@Idtelos

6 жыл бұрын

Damn...I was going to say "Computer, End Program'...then I looked at the comments...

@dlxmarks

6 жыл бұрын

"You might well think that. I couldn't possibly comment."

He's TWENTY NINE in this video?! Patrick Stewart decided to become 55 as fast as he could, then stay looking that way into his 80s.

@philipmcdonagh1094

2 жыл бұрын

Looked more than 47 when did Picard.

@damien884

2 жыл бұрын

@@philipmcdonagh1094 well you seem to be informed rather than having a instinctive constitution

@chasformer3091

2 жыл бұрын

Some people age to quickly :(

@Struzzylive

2 жыл бұрын

Concurred. Was likely early 30s in this

@seancoyote

Жыл бұрын

Dude, he was wearing a wig in this, he was bald in his 20's. He decided to not wear a wig, unlike the guy who played Kirk.

Unnoticed by most (due, no doubt to Ian and Patrick), is the gravedigger, played by Ronald Lacey, who everyone has seen getting his face melted in Raiders of the Lost Ark.

@darrengriffin8609

3 жыл бұрын

He died when he was only 55.

@docwho2828

2 жыл бұрын

@@darrengriffin8609 Very sad!

@stevenmeadows6917

Жыл бұрын

How's he doin'? Were the plastic surgeons able to get his face back?

@SirClerihew

Жыл бұрын

He is great in this small role

@IntheClutch75

Жыл бұрын

Nice one!

Picard's holodeck simulations from his days as an Ensign.

@aurex8937

7 жыл бұрын

Eerily possible.

@sameei21

7 жыл бұрын

blood117 except they didn't have hollodecks back then. if you watch the very first episode of tng you would know that the enterprise D was one of the first start ships to have encorperated hollodeck simulations.

@blood117

7 жыл бұрын

I am well aware, just trying to make a funny.

@khaledreza9833

7 жыл бұрын

Stop contributing to his typecasting!

@DMSProduktions

7 жыл бұрын

NOT true! The original Enterprise had a primitive 'holodeck' a century before. It was featured in an animated episode.

Wow! I was only here to gawk at Patrick Stewart with hair, but this is the first time I really felt like I understood Shakespeare. That hit me hard!!! Thanks Ian Richardson, whoever you are!

@jkmagnetic

4 ай бұрын

Stuart was almost completely bald by this age, and had to wear a hairpiece

Patrick Stewart looked and sounded like Patrick Stewart even in 1969. Incredible

People who only know these fine actors from pop-culture might be interested that the gravedigger is the evil little Gestapo Nazi with the specs from 'Raiders of the Lost Ark'

@andres6868

10 жыл бұрын

yes, his name was Ronald Lacey

@davincent98

6 жыл бұрын

I see it now.

@nickagriesti6708

5 жыл бұрын

I mean, RotLA is max pop-culture...

@jamesbaggett7223

3 жыл бұрын

He also was Himmler in "The Last Crusade"

@passion777able

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for pointing this out. His EYES looked familiar to me but I couldn't quite place him. You saved me from HOURS of mind exploitation in placing those eyes.

Solid interpretation: three remarkable actors and the sound and photography is excellent for television of the period.

@stefanschmerda6241

7 жыл бұрын

Chazbot q

@kjamison5951

6 жыл бұрын

Probably movie film and a really good transfer.

@shugaroony

6 жыл бұрын

Its from the monumental tv series of 68, Civilisation with Kenneth Clarke.

@Torus2112

3 жыл бұрын

The reason they made the series is because they realized TV technology, particularly in colour, had become advanced enough to really do the art history of Europe justice.

The always-superb Ian Richardson. I wonder whether Shakespeare sensed that he was writing for generations of fine actors like Richardson.

1:32 even the skull's mind is blown by that revelation

@Vel_Plays_2.0

4 ай бұрын

Lmao

He looks like a Romulan in that outfit and with hair. lol

@kennyryan625

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, if he had pointy ears this could be him working undercover on Romulus for Section 31 in his 20s

The people who think they saw Richardson in 'Star Trek' may be thinking of David Warner, another fine Shakespearean with a similar saturnine specialty.

@shugaroony

6 жыл бұрын

Warner is a fine actor, though not seen him much these days. Another with a great voice, they really do teach that stage voice well here. Ian Richardson was a Scot and you'd hardly know that, and I doubt Stewart spoke like that as a lad growing up in Huddersfield!

Ian Richardson was amazing as Prime Minister in the original House of Cards.

@yetanotheraccount3361

2 жыл бұрын

God he was so good. The way he played Francis so sly was awesome.

@Dirk-van-den-Berg

Жыл бұрын

That is what I know him from! Was aired in Netherlands, he played the male Thatcher, despicable political character.

All I can say is that I am 29 right now and Patrick Stewart and Shakespeare have guided me to never give up and always be myself

This clip has way too little Stewart to be titled Stewart.

@gleenfales

5 жыл бұрын

what you on about

@inisus

5 жыл бұрын

True that. And hh, did you even watch the clip LOL

This video is all about Ian Richardson's performance. Nothing else, except for the poetry of the Bard.

That's not Patrick Stewart! That man has hair!

@florinf8472

8 жыл бұрын

No, It's Roger Federer

@brianmessemer2973

7 жыл бұрын

Florin F 😲😲😲Whoa!!! Being both a Stewart and and Federer fan for years, I never saw it...but you're absolutely right!!!

@fadlya.rahman4113

6 жыл бұрын

Holographic hair

@beccajanestclair

6 жыл бұрын

R.F. Switch actually, he didn't. He lost his hair at 19 and wore hair pieces to perform.

@KentPetersonmoney

3 жыл бұрын

@@beccajanestclair so he went bald early that suck. I seen men that went bald in their mid 20's but never in thier teens.

I'd recommend the original 'House of Cards' with Ian Richardson (Hamlet here) playing the lead role, to anyone who enjoyed the Netflix US version and not seen the UK original.

@peterkierst2744

7 жыл бұрын

Seconded. It's excellent, and Ian Richardson is masterful.

@wholeNwon

5 жыл бұрын

Agree. It was excellent and Richardson was, of course, masterful.

@Logan912

2 жыл бұрын

I’ve always wanted to watch the UK version. The US version is good, but I think they stretched it out a little too much, and of course all of that coming about about Kevin Spacey being a despicable human being.

Ian Richardson is simply phenomenal.

@Dirk-van-den-Berg

Жыл бұрын

Just struck me that I know Richardson only as the character of Francis Urquehart. His face was looked familiar.

@TheMarlinspike

5 ай бұрын

@@Dirk-van-den-Berg Watch Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy :)

As Ian Richardson only played bit parts in movies and concentrated more on TV work in his later years, he never gained that pop culture notoriety that other British classical actors like Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Alec Guinness or Judi Dench enjoy. A pity though, as he was one of the most fascinating thespians of his generation.

Patrick Stewart AND Ian Richardson in one Clip? Made my Day!

'Make it so!' 'On that, I couldn't possibly comment.'

"Alas, poor Data, I knew him well..."

Horatio is Captain Jean-Luc Picard, the gravedigger is Melty Nazi from Raiders of the Lost Ark. And Hamlet, Ian Richardson, was one of the Grey Poupon gents. But he also created the character Francis Urquhart in the original House of Cards, now (as the more pronouncable Francis Underwood) played by Kevin Spacey.

@epiendless1128

6 жыл бұрын

Funny, I recognised the gravedigger as the slimy Harris from Porridge, and many TV shows from the same period, but never connected him with Raiders. He's actually _way_ more likeable in this clip than and other role I remember him in.

@jameswhitfield6220

6 жыл бұрын

Melty Nazi....I love how technical you get....

@DoctorPretorious616

6 жыл бұрын

Ronald Lacey was the name of the actor who placed Toht in "Raiders".

@johnm2558

6 жыл бұрын

"Melty Nazi from Raiders of the Lost Ark" haha! :D And there I was thinking "Slim Pickens" :-)

@squamish4244

6 жыл бұрын

He says '"Melty Nazi" and everyone knows who he means. It's like...brevity is the soul of wit...or something.

It's so weird seeing Ian Richardson so young

@BadWebDiver

2 жыл бұрын

Same . I only knew him in grey hair.

The grave digger looked very familiar then I realized it's Ronald Lacey the Major Arnold Toht from Raiders of the Lost Ark.

@Dreadpirateflappy

7 жыл бұрын

:o holy shit!!!

@capie44

7 жыл бұрын

I missed that completely! He's not so creepy here...even though he is standing in -- and next to -- an open grave.

@Hoto74

7 жыл бұрын

Know that I know that, I could see it in this video too. Some of his actings remembers me on Toht and there it is again, that creepy feeling. ;)

@cloudstrife1983

7 жыл бұрын

Was in Porridge too.

@davesworld7961

6 жыл бұрын

Good evening fraulein.

This looks too good. Really talented cinematographers here.

Patrick Stewart is portraying Horatio. I closed my eyes and LISTENED to the voices. As soon as Horatio spoke, I opened them...and it WAS Sir Patrick! NO DOUBT!Computer! TEA! Earl Grey....HOT!!!!

If Hamlet and Horatio had pointed ears they could be Vulcans but everyone knows that Hamlet was written by Klingons.

@kjamison5951

6 жыл бұрын

LOL! The Undiscovered Country, Hamlet, act 3, scene 1.

@Scyllax

3 жыл бұрын

@@kjamison5951 The Klingons claimed Shakespeare the way Germans do. That was the joke.

@thisDogDayAfternoon

2 жыл бұрын

Ah yes, you haven’t really seen Hamlet until you’ve seen it in the original Klingon.

I'm reading Patrick Stewart's memoir "Making it So" right now. It's excellent. His long rise to the top was an honest one. Fun fact, he was bald at 19 and used to joke when auditioning for the directors of cash-strapped companies that since he was so wig-ready it was like they were getting 2 actors for the price of one!

Patrick Stewart doing hardly any Shakespeare at all in 1969

@shugaroony

6 жыл бұрын

It wasn't even 69, it was 68, this was part of Civilisation with Kenneth Clarke. Might be the last episode in that monumental series.

@KenGLaP

6 жыл бұрын

There haven't been many many series of that caliber. One of my favorites was Ascent of Man by Jacob Bronowski. Ever see that one!

@tentringer4065

5 жыл бұрын

It's called minimalist acting. Focus on the words he doesn't say.

Shakespeare staring at a reality too real, without flinching. The universe contemplating its own mortality.

Ian Richardson was one of the greatest of British actors. My favorite of his was the original, and best, House of Cards.

In high school, I watched a version of "Hamlet" that starred Derek Jacoby as Hamlet, and Patrick Stewart played Claudius.

Patrick Stewart with a full head of hair makes about much sense as a bald Wookie.

The fact that Patrick Stewart sure doesn't look nearly 50 years older from how you see him in this is incredible. This is the better part of 2 decades before Star Trek! What, did he stop aging for a decade plus?

@LGranthamsHeir

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks to all those Borg nanoprobes acquired when he was assimilated as Locutus :)

@davesworld7961

5 жыл бұрын

He was in Excalibur in 1981 and looked the same on Star Trek.

@Boredman567

3 жыл бұрын

He was still in his twenties in this, but he already looked/sounded like he was in his forties. Kind of like how Tommy Lee Jones has looked like an old man since he was young.

@sergeantbigmac

2 жыл бұрын

Somehow he looked older in DUNE (1984) than he did in star trek? Hes giving Steve Martin a run for his money as "the man whos looked 55 since hes 25 until hes 75"

@toomanyhobbies2011

Жыл бұрын

Hollywood makeup, or course.

“E’en so. E’en so, my lord.” Masterful.

Patrick Stewart with hair looks like young Steve Martin.

@shugaroony

6 жыл бұрын

Haha I can see that!

@skittleseer1

4 жыл бұрын

I thought the same thing!

@mymoonams

3 жыл бұрын

Hahaha

damm i really forgot that Patrick was even there for a moment, great acting

The guy in the pit is Ronald Lacey who played Arnold Toht in Raiders of the Lost Ark.

Voice is so distinct. He cannot hide it.

Patrick Stewart is wonderful as Polonius in BBC Hamlet - Sejanus in I Claudius and Karla in Tinker Tailor. Even as he is brilliant at playing villains in his acting work, he is such a nice gentleman in real life.

@TheJTMcDaniel

5 ай бұрын

Stewart played Claudius in the BBC (Jacoby) Hamlet. Eric Porter was Polonius. I have to say that his Horatio wig was far more natural looking than the silly thing he wore as Claudius. His best look in the same role was probably the RSC movie with David Tennant, though that was obviously modern dress and not period.

No way! This is remarkable material! Like time travel (I'm born in 1981, raised with TNG)! Thank you so much for sharing!

@ZantherStone

6 жыл бұрын

Likewise. Raised on it as a child. Influenced a lot of who I am today

@nativevirginian8344

8 ай бұрын

It is time travel. Just like reading a book written in a previous century.

Don't recall ever seeing this before. I like the performances. Very good resolution: it looks as if it could have been filmed yesterday, apart from the hair!

Patrick Stewart looked like that at 29 years old? Holy shit.

This is the Brilliance of Ian Richardson!

“To consider too curiously to consider so.”

I think it's a wig, he has said in interviews he lost all his hair at a really young age, like 18 or 19. But his face looks eerily the same. How many people can say that of themselves after 45 years ?

@pianotm

6 жыл бұрын

Patrick Stewart drinks the blood of virgins.

@Discrimination_is_not_a_right

4 жыл бұрын

Bald people age more slowly because you don't see their hair go grey.

@FreeSpirit47

4 жыл бұрын

Actually there are many people who do age very slowly. Sometimes it's good genetics, sometimes it's because a person takes very good care of themselves. Sometimes, more or less, a combination in varying amounts of each. Barring any catastrophic disease or mishap, people will enjoy slow aging, great health, a long life if they take care of themselves, mind, body & spirit.

0:39 OMG that's the German from Raiders of Lost Ark with the burnt medal imprinted on his hand!

Love that I knew it was Hamlet just from seeing a grave being dug 😂

Never did I want so badly for Horatio to shout “engage.”

I hear Stewart auditioned for his role as captain of the Enterprise in a similar hairpiece. Can you imagine a toupee wearing Picard? XD

@TheJTMcDaniel

2 жыл бұрын

Watch the Derek Jacobi Hamlet for Stewart in a remarkable curly wig and playing Claudius, the same part he played without the wig in the later David Tennant version.

@rhocat362

11 ай бұрын

NOOOOOOO❤

When I was in primary school we had a book day where you were meant to dress up as a character from a story. I spent ages making a skull out of clay to say "Alas poor Yorik I knew him well." with, but I dropped the bloody thing on the floor and it smashed into a thousand pieces :(

@Theomite

4 жыл бұрын

I would have said "And...scene!' and then acted like I meant to do that.

@Amethyst_Friend

11 ай бұрын

Good job too, as you were misquoting the text

Hamlet: I couldn't possibly comment. Picard: Make it so!

It blows my mind that there was a time in life that men actually talked like this to one another. I say thou words burns away at me like the hot sun on my head as though it may be fried wastefully within a bad dosed hookah.

@robwebnoid5763

4 ай бұрын

Things change slowly. Even before early-modern English during Shakespearian times, the older English was also slightly different. In a few centuries or even a few millennia from now, our way of speaking, English or otherwise (Chinese, Spanish, etc), will slowly change again to the point that our great grand descendants will also be intrigued why we in the 19th-20th-21st centuries speak the way we do. 02/14/24

Since this was made before I was born, im now seeing this for the first time and it totally feels like Patrick Stewart was not that good of an actor back then. He's facial expressions are a bit funny. He is half smiling from time to time, and the way he says his lines sounds pretty rehearsed 😂. I'm glad that he has grown so much and became an amazing actor

You might very well think that Stewart is the Star in this Video, however i couldn‘t possibly comment.

The Great Ian Richardson

@shugaroony

6 жыл бұрын

The very great Ian Richardson, an acting titan!

Wish these guys did the whole play!

MY Goodness Patrick Stewart looks the same in the 1960's, the 1980's, and now! He's Immortal!

@LGranthamsHeir

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks to those Borg nanoprobes, I presume??

Time is ruthless. Time spares none of us.

@nativevirginian8344

8 ай бұрын

The hell we have been banished to-Time.

Thanks to Mystery Science Theater 3000, I have memorised this whole scene. In fact, most of Hamlet, if I'm being honest. Funny how knowledge can come from the most unlikely places.

@TheJTMcDaniel

5 ай бұрын

Was that the one where Ricardo Montalban dubbed Claudius for the English version?

Ian Richardson; the best Sherlock Holmes. Patrick Stewart; the best Enterprise Captain. But who played the skull?

@JimCullen

7 жыл бұрын

Ian Richardson, also the _original_ scheming murderous politician, from the UK's House of Cards!

@zun-hinwoo1042

6 жыл бұрын

J.J. Abrams played the skull

@nekodesigner

6 жыл бұрын

McCoy

@kjamison5951

6 жыл бұрын

Dem bones, dem bones, dem dry bones!

@hawkevick9184

3 жыл бұрын

The nazi from raiders of the lost ark.

This scene has everyone in it who matters.

Thats the wonderful Ronald Lacy!, wow he looks young here but as always he is amazing

Stewart stole Shatner's wig. LOL

@TheJTMcDaniel

3 жыл бұрын

If you think that one looks bad, you should see the one he wore in the Derek Jacoby version of Hamlet.

"YOU might think that - I couldn't possibly comment!!"

Hamlet: You might very well think that Horatio, I could not possibly comment.

He looks like Steve Martin in "The Jerk"....lol

Like Ernest Borgnine, Patrick Stewart was unknown until he started doing television.

Seth Meyers just found this clip and showed a still from it on his Late Night show, while interviewing Sir Patrick Stewart.

When Roddenberry conceived Star Trek, much of the stories were inspired by the works of Shakespeare. In fact many episodes were rewritten from his plays. Who better to replace Kirk than Sir Patrick.

Francis Urquhart and Jean-Luc Picard high as fuck.

Hee!! And Ian Richardson. I read about this play in his book.

Anyone else think Hamlet looks like a Romulan?

What a literal title. Patrick Stewart is in fact doing Shakespeare. "E'en so." "E'en so, my lord." Well, we all start out somewhere.

@yannatoko9898

2 жыл бұрын

Well, reading lines of a Shakespeare play, he isn't literally "doing Shakespeare" in a sense.

@TheJTMcDaniel

5 ай бұрын

The emphasis is really on Richardson. If the poster wanted to showcase Stewart there are several other scenes where Horatio is a lot more prominent.

i saw this ep of TNG!!!! this is the robin hood one!

@CptSchmidt

7 жыл бұрын

No, it's not.

@danehart2783

6 жыл бұрын

hamlet ...... you jest sir

@kjamison5951

6 жыл бұрын

Worf was NOT a merry man.

Sir Patrick with hair is all sorts of cursed, holy cow.

wow that hairpiece is an absolute mastwrpiece patrick. bring it backk

This is when the BBC made good programmes.

Alas, poor Yourick, I couldnt possibly comment.

So this is what Captain Picard did while on the holodeck.

Francis Urquhart!!!

@wholeNwon

5 жыл бұрын

Indeed...old F.U.

39 yr old Patrick Stewart...wow

I love the juxtaposition of Shakespeare being on a channel called DankWin.

At this point I'm pretty sure Patrick Stewart has played every single character in Hamlet (some twice)

Patrick Stewart barely doing a scene of Shakespeare in 1969.. Dude had two lines.

This is entertainment

01:08 _"Who's was it?"_ The Ambassador of the Worm People, Captain. I'm afraid we were too late.

I thought I had seen the guy playing Hamlet in a Jane Austen adaptation. Well, kind of - he was in Becoming Jane in 2007, his last role.

I was always convinced that this man was born to not have hair on the top of his head.

This actually helps make Shakespeare “make sense” to me, I never understood the context of the “alas poor Yorick...” line despite how often it appears in pop culture. But can someone explain the “get thee to my lady’s chambers” part onward?

@TheJTMcDaniel

3 жыл бұрын

It's an argument that vanity is pointless. That no matter what you do to make yourself look attractive, in the end you're going to be nothing more than a collection of bones decaying in the grave. Also an ironic statement, as it essentially references Ophelia, who, unbeknownst to Hamlet, who has just returned, is who the grave is being dug for.

@pod831

2 жыл бұрын

He reflects on the falseness of women, as he sees them, in that however much they may plaster their faces with makeup they will all end up like this skull, and they could learn a lesson from Yorick.

@TheBigMclargehuge

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheJTMcDaniel This brain-dead nihilism is considered the height of theater.

@willmungas8964

Жыл бұрын

@@TheBigMclargehuge i always found it to be rather moving and reflective; death inspires some interesting thoughts when people don’t ignore its inevitability. Of course, meaning in life comes not from wallowing in pity over that inevitability, but embracing it and making the most of their mortal time on the earth. A little bit of nihilism contextualizes the meaning we can have in our lives and makes it all the more important. Unfortunately people do like to wallow in it just for the sake of being edgy

@TheSadDane

Жыл бұрын

​@@TheBigMclargehugeyou can accept Hamlet's sentiment or not, but I wouldn't consider it "brain dead". In the context of the play it makes some sense - Hamlet has been brooding on mortality since the death of his father. I think these are thoughts that many could identify with at some point in life. Part of Shakespeare's genius is that he identified and conveyed complex human thoughts and emotions that we can still recognize today.

Wow! So the mock ups of Captain Picard , with hair , supposedly from when he was young are actually pretty accurate . Far from looking like a dodgy toupee or hair piece stuck on his balled dome! And on top of that the late great Iain Richardson likewise with colour in his hair! I’ve never actually seen this famous scene performed right through like this. It makes me want to see the whole play live on stage, although I’m unlikely to see it with two thespian gods in the full power of their youth like this now.

@ducttape82

Жыл бұрын

Believe it or not, this is also a toupee. Patrick Stewart said he lost his hair over the span of one year when he was 19 years old. He was 29 in this video, so he’d almost certainly have his “Captain Picard” hairline at this point.

He is the same age here as Cpt. Picard was when he took command of the U.S.S. Stargazer.

OMgOSH.... Captain Picard with full hair!!!

I want my time back...

You may very well think that, but I could not possibly comment

01:44 Delivered like a true Vulcan.

I love all of the Star Trek references