Alas Poor Yorick - 1913 was released on:
USA: 21 April 1913
Ken Dodd had a brief non-speaking appearance in Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet as Yorick, the King's jester. The scene appears as a flashback while Hamlet is musing on Yorick's skull, and saying "Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio . . ."
From Hamlet: Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio, a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. He hath bore me on his back a thousand times, and now how abhorr'd in my imagination it is! My gorge rises at it. Usually mis-qouted as Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him well.
Fractioned Fairy Tales Pieces of a Dream Part and Parcel Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Ratio
Hamlet, Act 5 , scene 1. Hamlet and Horatio are in a churchyard with two gravediggers. Hamlet holds a skull, that of Yorick, a king's jester, and says, "Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellowof infinite jest, of most excellent fancy: he hathborne me on his back a thousand times; and now, howabhorred in my imagination it is! my gorge rims atit. Here hung those lips that I have kissed I knownot how oft. Where be your gibes now? yourgambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment,that were wont to set the table on a roar? Not onenow, to mock your own grinning? quite chap-fallen?Now get you to my lady's chamber, and tell her, lether paint an inch thick, to this favour she mustcome; make her laugh at that. Prithee, Horatio, tellme one thing." A common misquotation of the famous line, "Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio," is "Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, well."
Yorick. And he is part of one of the most misquoted lines - (usually misquoted as "Alas, Poor Yorick, I knew him well." The correct line is - "Alas, poor Yorick, I knew him Horatio."
Alas de mi patria - 1939 was released on: Argentina: 5 April 1939 USA: 3 June 1940
Playhouse 90 - 1956 Alas Babylon 4-14 was released on: USA: 3 April 1960
2nd Sentence- Alas, poor Yorick! Hamlet- "Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio; a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy; he hath borne me on his back a thousand times; and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is! My gorge rises at it. Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now? Your gambols? Your songs? Your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar?"
Yorick was the jester in the royal household when Hamlet was a kid. Hamlet remembers him telling jokes and playing piggy-back with him. Yorick died many years ago, and the gravedigger, while digging a grave for Ophelia, finds Yorick's skull in the earth and presents it to Hamlet, telling him "This, sir, was Yorick's skull, the king's jester." Hamlet remarks to his friend Horatio who is standing by, "Alas! poor Yorick. I knew him, Horatio, a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. He hath borne me on his back a thousand times and now how abhorrent in my imagination it is. My gorge rises at it. Where be your jibes now? Your songs? Your flashes of merriment that were wont to set the table on a roar? Not one now, to mock your own grinning--quite chapfallen."
Mundo alas - 2009 was released on: Argentina: 26 March 2009 (Buenos Aires) USA: 6 August 2010 USA: 16 October 2010 (New Hampshire Film Festival)
Not usually; such an action is not required of him, although a director might well have him examining a skull if he wanted to. This situation is quite different from Hamlet, who is often portrayed as holding a skull because he is required by the script to hold and examine the skull of the jester Yorick while delivering the famous lines "Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio." Vindice in Thomas Middleton's play The Revenger's Tragedy is also required by the script to hold the skull of his murdered girlfriend.
Leopoldo Alas's birth name is Leopoldo Alas Mnguez.