Oliver Twist Charles Dickens

Film

• Oliver Twist (1909), the first adaptation of Dickens's novel, a silent film starring Edith Storey and Elita Proctor Otis.
• Oliver Twist (1912), a British silent film adaptation, directed by Thomas Bentley.
• Oliver Twist (1912), an American silent film adaptation starring Nat C. Goodwin.
• Oliver Twist (1916), a silent film adaptation, starring Marie Doro and Tully Marshall.
• Oliver Twist (1919), a silent Hungarian film adaptation.
• Oliver Twist (1922), silent film adaptation featuring Lon Chaney and Jackie Coogan.
• Oliver Twist (1933), the first sound production of Dickens's novel.
• Oliver Twist (1948), David Lean film adaptation starring Alec Guinness as Fagin.
• Manik (1961), Bengali film directed by Bijalibaran Sen which was based on this novel. The film stars Pahari Sanyal, Chhabi Biswas, Sombhu Mitra and Tripti Mitra.[36]
• Oliver! (1968), British musical adaptation, winner in the Best Picture category at the 41st Academy Awards.
• Oliver Twist (1974), an animated film co-written by Ben Starr.
• Oliver Twist (1982), an Australian animated film.
• Las Aventuras de Oliver Twist (1987), a Mexican animated film.
• Oliver & Company (1988), Disney full-length animated feature inspired by the story of Oliver Twist.[5] The story takes place in modern-day New York City, with Oliver (voiced by Joey Lawrence) portrayed as an orphaned kitten, the Dodger as a street-wise mongrel with a mix of terrier (voiced by Billy Joel), and Fagin (voiced by Dom DeLuise) as a homeless tramp who lives on the docks with his pack of stray dogs that he trains to steal so he can survive and repay his debt to loan shark Sykes (voiced by Robert Loggia).[37]
• Twisted (1996), an independent film based on Charles Dickens's novel Oliver Twist set in the gay underground sub-culture of New York City in the 1990s and starring Emmy Award, Tony Award, Grammy Award winner Billy Porter and Academy Award nominee William Hickey (actor) directed by Seth Michael Donsky.
• Oliver Twist (1997), directed by Tony Bill and starring Richard Dreyfuss and Elijah Wood.
• Twist (2003), an independent film loosely based on Charles Dickens's novel Oliver Twist
• Boy Called Twist (2004), a South African film which resets the story in modern-day Cape Town and turns Fagin into an Ethiopian Rastafarian.
• Oliver Twist (2005), directed by Roman Polanski and starring Barney Clark and Ben Kingsley.
• Twist (2021), modern day version directed by Martion Owen, and starring Michael Caine as Fagin.[38][39]

Television

• 1962: Oliver Twist, a 13-episode BBC serial directed by Eric Tayler, starring Max Adrian as Fagin, Willoughby Goddard as Mr Bumble and Peter Vaughan as Bill Sikes.[40]
• 1980: The Further Adventures of Oliver Twist, a British television series set as a sequel, with Daniel Murray as Oliver, John Fowler as The Artful Dodger and David Swift as Fagin.[41]
• 1982: Oliver Twist, a TV movie directed by Clive Donner, starring George C. Scott as Fagin and Tim Curry as Bill Sikes.
• 1985: Oliver Twist, a 12-episode BBC One drama directed by Gareth Davies, starring Eric Porter and Michael Attwell.[42]
• 1999: Oliver Twist, an ITV drama adaptation starring Andy Serkis and Keira Knightley.
• 2007: Oliver Twist, a 5-episode BBC One drama directed by Coky Giedroyc, starring Timothy Spall, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Edward Fox, Anna Massey and Tom Hardy.[43]
• 1996-97: Saban's Adventures of Oliver Twist, a 52-episode animated American-French co-production where the story is downplayed for younger viewers, in which Oliver loses his mother in a crowd rather than being dead and the characters are represented by anthropomorphic animals. Oliver in this version is a young dog.
• 2001: Escape of the Artful Dodger, an Australian TV series set as a sequel, where Dodger and Oliver are sent to the colony of Australia.
• 2020: The Animaniacs 2020 revival featured a two-part parody of the story titled "Wakkiver Twist" in season 2, featuring Yakko, Wakko, and Dot Warner playing the roles of a trio version of Oliver while Fagin is played by the Warners' usual foil, Dr. Otto von Scratchansniff.
• 2023: The Artful Dodger, an Australian TV series produced for Disney+, a sequel where Dodger is sent to the colony of Australia, starring Thomas Brodie-Sangster.

Radio

• 1928, BBC Liverpool, with Olive Worthington (Oliver Twist), J.P. Lambe (Fagin), Walter Shore (The Artful Dodger), Mrs Fred Wilkinson (Nancy) and Philip H. Harper (Bill Sikes)[44]
• 1934, BBC Regional Programme, adapted by J. Comyns Carr, with Desmond Tester (Oliver Twist), Harcourt Williams (Fagin), Frederick Peisley (The Artful Dodger), Barbara Couper (Nancy) and Matthew Boulton (Bill Sikes)[45]
• 1941-42, BBC Home Service in 8 parts, adapted by Audrey Lucas, with David Baxter (Oliver Twist), Malcolm Keen (Fagin), Leonard Thorne (The Artful Dodger), Belle Chrystall (Nancy) and Allan Jeaves (Bill Sikes)[46]
• 1947, NBC Radio, Favorite Story, broadcast April 29th 1947, hosted by Ronald Colman with Henry Blair, Arthur Q. Bryan, Gloria Gordon, Edmund MacDonald, Peter Rankin and Virginia Gregg[47]
• 1952, BBC Home Service in 12 parts, adapted by Giles Cooper, with Wilfrid Downing (Oliver Twist), John Gabriel (Fagin), Brian Smith (The Artful Dodger), Helen Shingler (Nancy) and Ralph Truman (Bill Sikes)[48]
• 1970, BBC Radio 4 in 12 parts, adapted Giles Cooper, with Stephen Bone (Oliver Twist), Peter Woodthorpe (Fagin), Dennis Conoley (The Artful Dodger), Patricia Leventon (Nancy) and John Hollis (Bill Sikes)[49]
• 1994, BBC Radio 4 in 6 parts, adapted and directed by Nigel Bryant, with Edward Long (Oliver Twist), John Grillo (Fagin), Richard Pearce (The Artful Dodger), Adjoa Andoh (Nancy) and Tim McInnerny (Bill Sikes)[50]

Theatre

• In 1838 Charles Zachary Barnett's adaptation, the three-act burletta Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy's Progress opened at the Marylebone Theatre in London.[51]
• Oliver!, a 1960 West End theatre stage musical adaptation by Lionel Bart.[52] The original cast featured Ron Moody as Fagin (he would reprise the role for the film adaptation), and boys who alternated in the juvenile lead of the Artful Dodger included Phil Collins and Davy Jones.[53] Many songs are well known to the public, such as "Food, Glorious Food", "Consider Yourself" and "I'd Do Anything".[54]
• Oliver Twist is a 2017 stage adaptation of the novel written by Anya Reiss which premiered at the Regent's Park Theatre. The show was directed by Caroline Byrne.[55]