William Hobbs (choreographer)

William Hobbs
Born	29 January 1939 Hampstead, London, England, United Kingdom
Occupation	Stage Fight Choreographer
Years active	1962–present

William Hobbs (born January 29, 1939 in Hampstead, London) is a choreographer of staged fights. He has arranged some of the most notable scenes of cinematic fencing from the 1960s to the 2000s, including those in:

• H.M.S. Defiant (1962)
• Othello (1965)
• The Tragedy of Macbeth (1971)
• The Three Musketeers (1973)
• The Four Musketeers (1974)
• Royal Flash (1975)
• The Duellists (1977)
• Flash Gordon (1980)
• Excalibur (1981)
• Ladyhawke (1985)
• Brazil (1985)
• Willow (1988)
• Dangerous Liaisons (1988)
• Cyrano de Bergerac (1990)
• Hamlet (1990)
• Robin Hood (1991)
• Rob Roy (1995)
• Shakespeare in Love (1998)
• The Man in the Iron Mask (1998)
• The Count of Monte Cristo (2002)
• Casanova (2005)
• Game of Thrones (2011)

Publications

• 1995, Fight Direction for Stage and Screen, Heinemann, ISBN 978-0-435-08680-0.

External links

• William Hobbs at the Internet Movie Database
• New York Times Article on William Hobbs work on the 2008 Broadway production of Hamlet