As Kenneth Branagh turns sixty, he finds himself honoured by the English theatrical world as the restored heir to its tradition of the actor-manager, having created a theatre and film career unlike any other. He is an actor-manager-film director who builds on the tradition he inherits from Laurence Olivier, Orson Welles, and Franco Zeffirelli even as he revises it. This overview of his career reveals that he can do small and tidy, but his cinematic imagination first feasts on Hollywood movie genres – noir thrillers, murder mysteries, Disney classics, Superhero fantasies, spy films, musicals, and bio-pics – then feeds his lasting legacy to Shakespeare on film.

肯尼思·布拉纳（Kenneth Branagh）六十岁高龄时，他发现自己已成为英国戏剧界的荣幸，成为其传统的演员兼经理继承人，他在戏剧和电影事业上的成就与众不同。他是一位演员兼导演电影导演，他在改编的同时继承了劳伦斯·奥利维尔（Laurence Olivier），奥森·威尔斯（Orson Welles）和佛朗哥·泽菲雷利（Franco Zeffirelli）的传统。对他的职业生涯的概述表明，他可以做得整洁，但他的电影想象力首先是好莱坞电影类型的盛宴-黑色惊悚片，谋杀案之谜，迪斯尼经典，超级英雄的幻想，间谍电影，音乐剧和传记片-然后养活了他的电影中莎士比亚的悠久遗产。