Coriolanus
movie
Released March 31, 1979
Genres:
Overview
A video recording of a New York Shakespeare Festival 1979 stage production of Coriolanus with an all-black and Hispanic cast. Producer Joseph Papp intended to provide professional opportunities for actors of minority ethnic backgrounds. A banished hero of Rome allies with a sworn enemy to take his revenge on the city.
Cast
- no image
Frank Adu
as
Junius Brutus
Gloria Foster
as
Volumnia
CCH Pounder
as
Valeria
Earle Hyman
as
Cominius
Roscoe Orman
as
Adrian
Michele Shay
as
Virgilia
- no image
Maurice Woods
as
Agrippa
Keith David
as
Aedile / Roman Citizen / Volscian Citizen
Castulo Guerra
as
Senator / Nicanor / Officer
Denzel Washington
as
Roman Soldier / Volscian Soldier
- no image
Dennis Tate
as
Servingman / Roman Citizen / Volscian Citizen
Peter Francis James
as
Volscian Citizen / Roman Soldier / Volscian Soldier