Billy Budd is a 1962 British historical adventure-drama film produced, directed, and co-written by Peter Ustinov. It is adapted from Louis O. Coxe and Robert H. Chapman's stage play version of Herman
John Reginald Neville CM OBE was an English actor and theatre director whose career spanned more than sixty years. He was renowned for his roles on both stage and screen in genres ranging from classic
Neville as Prince Hamlet in a 1959 TV production of Hamlet
Neville and Claire Bloom in Romeo and Juliet, 1957
A young Gielgud (L) whom Neville was often compared to vocally and physically