Category:Jane Eyre (film subject)

Jane Eyre

Overview

All silent adaptations (notably, in 1910 and 1921) are lost.

The 1934 version was the first to use sound.

Great success was achieved by the 1943 adaptation, starring Joan Fontaine and Orson Wells.

Other feature films followed in 1970, 1996 and 2011.

For television were produced two films (1949, 1961, 1997) and five BBC miniseries: in 1956, 1963 (lost), 1973, 1983, and 2006.

The best adaptations are the 1943 film and the two BBC miniseries (1983, and 2006).

1910 - Silent film <lost>
1915 - Silent film / Louise Vale, Franklin Ritchie / <?>
1921 - Silent film <lost>
1934 - * Feature film / Virginia Bruce, Colin Clive / <YouTube>
1943 - * @@ Feature film / Jean Fontaine, Orson Welles / Peggy Ann Garner, Margareth O'Brien, Elizabeth Taylor / <YouTube>
1949 - * TV film / Mary Sinclair, Charlton Heston / <YouTube>
1956 - <> BBC miniseries / Daphne Slater, Stanley Baker / <YouTube>
1957 - <> RAI miniseries / Ilaria Occhini, Raf Vallone / <YouTube>
1961 - <> TV film / Sally Ann Howes, Fritz Weaver / <YouTube>
1963 - BBC miniseries / Ann Bell, Richard Leech / (YouTube)
1968 - Film / Hristina Sylva , Manos Katrakis
1970 - * Feature film / Susannah York, George C. Scott <YouTube>
1973 - BBC miniseries / Sorcha Cusack, Michael Jayston / <?>
1983 - * @ BBC miniseries / Zelah Clarke, Timothy Dalton / <YouTube>
1996 - * Feature film / Charlotte Gainsbourg, William Hurt / <?>
1997 - <> TV film / Samantha Morton, Ciarán Hinds / <YouTube>
2006 - ** @@ BBC miniseries / Ruth Wilson, Toby Stephens / Georgie Henley, Cosima Littlewood, Hester Odgers / <YouTube>
2011 - <> Feature film / Mia Wasikowska, Michael Fassbender / Amelia Clarkson, Freya Parks, Freya Parks / <YouTube>
2024 - Feature film / Julia Benko, Matt Bogart