- At least five film adaptations of Silas Marner were released during the silent film era, including the following:
- Silas Marner (Thanhouser Film Corporation, USA; 31 March 1911) with Frank Hall Crane in the title role.[12]
- Le Noël de Silas Marner (Pathé Frères, France; November 1912) (UK; 27 November 1912; as Silas Marner's Christmas).[13]
- Silas Marner (Edison Company, USA; 24 October 1913) with William Langdon West in the title role.[14]
- Silas Marner (Thanhouser Film Corporation, USA; 19 February 1916) with Frederick Warde in the title role.[15][16]
- Silas Marner (Associated Exhibitors, USA; May 1922) (UK; 25 January 1926) with Crauford Kent in the title role.[17]
- The actor Michael Williams played Marner in a Focus on the Family Radio Theatre two-part adaptation for radio; this was to be the last acting role before his death. The production also featured Edward Woodward, Jenny Agutter, Alex Jennings and Timothy Bateson and has subsequently been re-broadcast on BBC Radio 7.
- W. S. Gilbert's play Dan'l Druce, Blacksmith (1876) takes its initial situation—the arrival of a child in a miser's life—from Silas Marner (as noted in the libretto), and has a somewhat similar ending, although the middle section is entirely new.[18][19]
- The 1954 Indian film Bangaru Papa, in Telugu, starring S. V. Ranga Rao and Krishna Kumari, is also based on Palagummi Padmaraju's loose adaptation of Silas Marner.[20]
- The composer John Joubert wrote an opera Silas Marner based on the novel in 1961.[21][22]
- A stage version of "Silas Marner" adapted by playwright Gerald P. Murphy was published by Lazy Bee Scripts in 2010. [1]
- The novel was adapted as Sukhdas in Hindi by the Indian writer Premchand.[23]
- Ben Kingsley played Silas Marner in a 1985 BBC adaptation (broadcast in the US in 1987 by Masterpiece Theatre), with Patsy Kensit as the grown-up Eppie.[24][25][26]
- The children's TV series Wishbone has an episode with an abridged adaptation.
- Steve Martin wrote, produced, and starred in a 1994 film adaptation of the novel, titled A Simple Twist of Fate.[27]
- A stage version of Silas Marner, containing only text from the novel, was adapted by Mark Wheeller and published by Salamander Street in 2020.[28]
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