Portrayals in Fiction
Edward is a character in the play Richard III by William Shakespeare. In film and television adaptations of this play he has been portrayed by the following actors:
- Kathleen Yorke in the 1911 silent short dramatising a part of the play.
- Howard Stuart in the 1912 silent adaptation.
- Paul Huson in the 1955 film version, alongside Laurence Olivier as Richard.
- Hugh Janes in the 1960 BBC series An Age of Kings, which contained all the history plays from Richard II to Richard III.
- Nicolaus Haenel in the 1964 West German TV version König Richard III.
- Dorian Ford in the 1983 BBC Shakespeare version.
- Spike Hood provided his voice in the 1994 BBC series Shakespeare: The Animated Tales.
- Marco Williamson in the 1995 film version, alongside Ian McKellen as Richard.
- Jon Plummer in the 2005 modernised TV version set on a Brighton housing estate.
- Germaine De Leon in the 2007 modern-day adaptation.
Edward has also been portrayed by Ronald Sinclair in Tower of London, a 1939 horror film loosely dramatising the rise to power of Richard III, and by Eugene Martin in the 1962 remake. Jonathan Soper portrayed him in the "Who Killed the Princes in the Tower?" episode of the BBC drama documentary series Second Verdict in 1976, and Timotei Cresta played him in the 2005 British television drama Princes in the Tower.
In the book Sent from The Missing series by Margaret Peterson Haddix, Edward is revealed to be Chip. In the future, a time travel organisation is created to save the "missing" children of history. They travel to the night of the murder, and grab Edward and his brother before they were killed. In the anime Black Butler (Kuroshitsuji), Edward and his brother are presented as ghosts haunting Ludlow Castle until they can pass on to heaven. Edward believes that, to do that, he must gather the skulls of his whole family but cannot, since, for some reason, which is revealed later, Richard refuses to hand over what is presumed to be his own. He is voiced by Mitsugi Saiga in the original and by Josh Grelle in the English dub. Edward also appears in Robin Maxwell's To The Tower Born: A Novel of the Lost Princes a story of what might have happened to the princes while they were in the tower.
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