Actors
- Horace Hodges played Lord Emsworth in a 1933 silent film adaptation of Summer Lightning
- Ralph Richardson played him in adaptations of six Blandings shorts, made by the BBC and broadcast in 1967 (only the first, adapted from the short "Lord Emsworth and the Girl Friend", still remains in the BBC archives).
- Richard Vernon portrayed Lord Emsworth in BBC Radio 4 adaptations from the 1960s to the 1980s, including series based on Galahad at Blandings and the Blandings short stories.
- Peter O'Toole portrayed him in a 1995 BBC adaptation of Heavy Weather, broadcast in the U.S. by PBS.
- Martin Jarvis portrayed Emsworth for BBC Radio 4 in adaptations of Something Fresh (2009) and Summer Lightning (2010).
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