Puck Appearences
With Midsummer being SO popular, virtually every actor in the world has appeared in this play in some point in their career. I've been in it three times. So obviously, this will just be a collection of some noteworthy Puck performances.
the Oscar-winning 1935 movie A Midsummer Night's Dream famously featured a 14-year-old Mickey Rooney.
The 1968 Midsummer Night's Dream is probably one of the best ever put on film, featuring some of the absolute best British actors of their generation. Ian Holm played Puck, just one of a crowd of future Sir's and Lady's dotting the cast.
It would be seriously remiss to not include the 1970 Royal Shakespeare Company production of Midsummer directed by Peter Brook, as it is often considered to be a defining moment in modern stage production. Puck was played by John Kane.
1996's Midsummer was actually an adaptation of a very successful stage adaptation from London, and featured much of the same cast. (This was the first play I ever saw in London. Being an American, that was a very big deal.) Puck and Philostrate were both played by Finbar Lynch, although I believe he was billed as Barry Lynch.
The 1999 film is an interesting quandary... it uses a lot of the same visual cues as earlier productions, but is deliberately crafted with a much slower and more dreamlike pace. Stanley Tucci plays puck, but he's constrained with the same deliberate lethargy as the rest of the cast. Still the whole movie functions like a stage production, and that's fun.
Speaking of stage productions, the Royal Shakespeare Company's 2013 staging of Midsummer is among my personal favorites. Matthew Tennyson played puck.
As a character in the public domain, Puck has appeared in countless forms over the centuries, in every conceivable art form. Pika has very deliberately crafted her version of Puck from Neil Gaiman's Sandman. Specifically Sandman #19, "A Midsummer Night's Dream", the only comic to ever win a World Fantasy Award.