The 1926 version of hamlet is the most creepy by far, and the version for a lead actor has given the most.
The fledgling director, Don Dwando had been shooting the "Get thee to a nunnery" scene for more than two weeks. Mr Hample, all halting twitchiness, couldn't seem to deliver the emotive package with the required gravitas and pathos.
Dwando figured he could better capture the essence of the scene frame by frame if only Hample would stay still enough, long enough. In a moment of shattering inspiration he snuffed and stuffed his lead actor (posing him as he would).
Dwando won Hample the academy award and invented stop motion animation in one brilliant move.
Although Hample was born away less regally than the mournful Dane he lived on (in the prop room at Universal) for many years.