Ghosts has been filmed, and adapted for film and television, numerous times in various languages. It was adapted at least three times for silent films. In 1915, George Nichols directed a film of the same name for producer D. W. Griffith. Mary Alden and Henry B. Walthall starred.[1] Also in 1915, it was filmed in Russia, directed and adapted by Vladimir Gardin.[35] In 1918, the Italian production company Milano Films released an adaptation titled Gli spettri, starring Ermete Zacconi and his wife Ines Cristina Zacconi.[36]
In 1987 it was televised on the BBC, directed by Elijah Moshinsky and featuring Judi Dench as Mrs. Alving, Kenneth Branagh as Oswald, Michael Gambon as Pastor Manders, and Natasha Richardson as Regina.[37] In 2014 Richard Eyre's award-winning London stage adaptation starring Lesley Manville and Jack Lowden was filmed and screened at numerous cinemas, and is available to view online.[26][27][28][29]
