Hamlet (1996) Body Count Breakdown by MrThePandaman
[CHARACTER KILLS]
Hamlet (Kenneth Branagh)- 3
Claudius (Derek Jacobi)- 1
Queen Gertrude (Julie Christie)- 1
Ophelia (Kate Winslet)- 1
Laertes (Michael Maloney)- 1
[CORPSE BREAKDOWN]
The ghost’s story: 1
-Claudius poisons Old King Hamlet
Accidental murder: 1
-Hamlet stabs Polonius to death
Bad news: 1
-Ophelia accidentally drowns herself (though it could also be interpreted as suicide)
Ophelia’s burial: 1
-Hamlet sees Yorick’s skull
The Fight: 7
-Queen Gertrude accidentally drinks poison
-Hamlet cuts Laertes with a poisoned sword
-Hamlet throws a sword into Claudius, hits him with a chandelier, and makes him drink poison
-Osric gets stabbed by one of Fortinbras’s soldiers
-Hamlet dies of a wound from Laertes’s poisoned sword
-Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are mentioned as dead
[THE UNCONFIRMED AND UNCOUNTED]
Fortinbras’s men beat up several of King Claudius’s soldiers, but there’s never any blood or heavy indication they were killed.