With both John Gielgud and Laurence Olivier in mind, here is a selection of Hamlets. Above, David Tennant in the recent Royal Shakespeare Company production.
Richard E. Grant in Withnail and I
“To be or not to be” soliloquy in Klingon
Sarah Bernhardt
Hamlet in Camden, New Jersey
Grigory Kozintsev’s Гамлет
“No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be”: Tom Stoppard’s Rosenkrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Here is a link to an excerpt from the Burton “ranting” Hamlet (one of my favorites, perhaps for nostalgic reasons: I had a recording of it which I remember playing over and over again as teenager), with the great Hume Cronyn as Polonius:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l93LR6Sw75Q&feature=related