Theatrical films
- The Canterville Ghost, a 1944 Hollywood movie with Charles Laughton in the title role
- Кентервильское привидение, a 1970 Soviet animated film.
- Bhoothnath, a 2008 Bollywood movie adaptation[2]
- The Canterville Ghost, (Le Fantôme de Canterville) a 2016 French-Belgian film.
- The Canterville Ghost, a British animated feature film with the voices of Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, and Miranda Hart, originally intended for release in 2016[3] and was released on 22 September 2023.[4][5]
On television
According to The American Film Institute Catalog, "Among the many other adaptations of Oscar Wilde's story are the following television versions, all titled The Canterville Ghost :"[6]
Sept.28, 1949, on ABC network, directed by Fred Carr and starring Wendy Barrie and Edward Ashley
November 20, 1950, on NBC network’s Robert Montgomery Presents Your Lucky Strike Theatre, starring Cecil Parker and Margaret O'Brien[7]
April 12, 1951, on the Du Mont network, directed by Frank Wisbar, starring Lois Hall, Reginald Sheffield and Bruce Lester
May 1953, Ziv TV’s syndicated version, directed by Sobey Martin, starring John Qualen and Connie Marshall
November 9, 1966, The Canterville Ghost, a 1966 ABC television musical that aired 2 November and featured Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., and Michael Redgrave. Featured songs by Fiddler on the Roof songwriters Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick.[8]
October 15, 1986, for syndication, directed by Paul Bogart, starring John Gielgud, Ted Wass, Andrea Marcovicci and Alyssa Milano.
On January 27, 1996, a movie, The Canterville Ghost aired on ABC, starring Patrick Stewart and Neve Campbell
On October 31, 2021 a BYUtv and BBC series titled The Canterville Ghost premiered.[9][10][11]
In addition to the AFI list:
- The Canterville Ghost, a 1962 British television drama on the BBC Sunday-Night Play featuring Bernard Cribbins.
- Duch z Canterville, a Polish made-for-TV short comedy film, aired on 31 May 1968, starring Czesław Wołłejko and Anna Nehrebecka.[12]
- The Canterville Ghost (1974), a made-for-TV film starring David Niven. aired on 10 March 1975 in the United States; it also aired in West Germany and France.
- The Canterville Ghost, a 1985 television film starring Richard Kiley, on PBS.
- A cantervillei kisértet, a 1987 television musical film ("Musical TV Theater") on Magyar Televízió (Hungarian Television)[13]
- The Canterville Ghost, a 1988 animated television special.
- Episode 7 of the first series of the British anthology program Mystery and Imagination, which aired 12 March 1966 and featured Bruce Forsyth as the ghost. The episode was wiped after broadcast, but audio-only recordings have survived.
- The Canterville Ghost, a 1996 film for television (ABC), starring Patrick Stewart and Neve Campbell.
- The Canterville Ghost, a 1997 British television film starring Ian Richardson and Celia Imrie
- The Canterville Ghost, a 2001 animated Australian film for television by Burbank Films Australia.
On radio and audio
- The Canterville Ghost, a June 18, 1945 broadcast of the Lux Radio Theatre, with Charles Laughton and Margaret O'Brien reprising their roles from the 1944 film of the same name.
- Canterville Ghost, a 1974 radio drama adapted by George Lowthar for the CBS Radio Mystery Theater series.
- A radio dramatisation was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on New Year's Eve 1992.
- A reading of the story by Alistair McGowan was broadcast on BBC Radio 7 in December 2007.
- The Canterville Ghost, a 2011 audiobook production by W F Howes narrated by Rupert Degas[14]
In print
A graphic novel version published by Classical Comics in 2010 adapted by Scottish writer Sean Michael Wilson, with art by Steve Bryant and Jason Millet
In music
- The Ghost of Canterville (1965–1966) is an opera by the Russian composer Alexander Knaifel to a libretto by Tatiana Kramarova based on Wilde's story.
- Bílý pán aneb Těžko se dnes duchům straší an opera by Czech composer Jaroslav Křička based on Wilde's story, libretto by J. L. Budín, premiered in 1929.[15] (The Wikipedia pages on Křička in Czech, French, German and Russian contain much more information than the Wikipedia page in English, which is a stub.)
- The Canterville Ghost opera by Gordon Getty. Debut performance at Leipzig Opera on 9 May 2015.
- Tall Stories Theatre Company, created a music-hall adaptation of the story that premiered at the 2018 Edinburgh Festival Fringe and has toured since then. (2018 Festival Review on official website)
- "The Canterville Ghost" is a song by the Austrian symphonic metal band Edenbridge in the album Shine. The song is preceded by an intro track named "The Canterville Prophecy".
- "Dark Depth" is a song by the Serbian thrash metal band Alister from the album Obscurity, heavily influenced by Oscar Wilde's story.
- "El Fantasma de Canterville" is a song by the Argentinian musician Charly García
- Canterville – The musical is a musical by Flavio Gargano, Robert Steiner and Valentina De Paolis
- "The Ghost Of Canterville" is a song by the hard rock band Fans Of The Dark from the 2021 self-titled album Fans Of The Dark. The song focuses on the tragic tale of Sir Simon.
