Han har medverkat i omkring 100 film- och TV-produktioner. The casting of Hopkins did cause controversy because of his race. Sir Philip Anthony Hopkins, CBE, född 31 december 1937 i Margam, West Glamorgan, Wales, är en brittisk skådespelare och kompositör.Hopkins är numera bosatt i USA och har dubbelt medborgarskap.

[21] 1990 Othello (1990) A videotaped version of the last Royal Shakespeare Company production at The Other Place starring Willard White , Ian McKellen , Clive Swift , Michael Grandage , Sean Baker , and Imogen Stubbs . Perhaps wisely, Anthony Hopkins chose not to copy Laurence Olivier's overtly Negroid make-up in his 1960s National Theatre production, preferring a swarthy appearance that establishes a physical difference between Othello and the other characters without resorting to caricature. The jaded and malicious Iago harnesses the jealousy both enacted upon and harboured within Othello to … Starring Anthony Hopkins and Bob Hoskins. Anthony Hopkins and Bob Hoskins star in Shakespeare's tragedy about jealousy, love and deceit.
Anthony Hopkins, Bob Hoskins, Penelope Wilton, Rosemary Leach, David Yelland, Anthony Pedley, Geoffrey Chater. BBC TV/Time-Life (1981) Produced and directed by Jonathan Miller.

Anthony Hopkins is noble and charismatic as Othello.

The role had been offered first to James Earl Jones (who played it in the U.S. opposite Christopher Plummer as Iago) but the British unions wouldn't allow the role to be played by an American. He was very good, but that performance has not aged well. Anthony Hopkins was born on December 31, 1937, in Margam, Wales, to Muriel Anne (Yeats) and Richard... Born: December 31, 1937

Othello A Jimi Hendrix Experience of the Moor. Anthony Hopkins famously played Othello in brown face. Less well known is the BBC version of Othello, directed by Jonathan Miller in 1981 with Anthony Hopkins as Othello and Bob Hoskins as Iago. BBC Television Shakespeare's adaptation of Othello is directed by Jonathan Miller and stars Anthony Hopkins as Othello, a general in the Venetian army who has secretly married Desdemona.

Othello (Series 4 Episode 1) First transmitted 4th October 1981.
Set in Venice, the play centers on the Moor Othello and his love, Desdemona. O, beware, my lord, of jealousyOthello, the Moor of Venice, has secretly married Desdemona for love, much to the displeasure of her father and disappointed suitors. The play specifically describes Othello as a Moor, which is a Muslim (simply put, a little research on your part will give you more information). It's easy to imagine him commanding troops but equally easy to imagine him beguiling a romantic young Venetian girl with his mellifluous voice (I've hardly ever heard Shakespeare's language sound more beautiful than in Hopkins' mouth). Angry that Othello chose Cassio as his officer and not him, the treacherous Iago conceives plan after plan to destroy Cassio and get back at Othello.