Othello (1980 film) including Warner Brothers. It has never been released commercially. Othello (1980 film) Othello is Liz White's 1980 dramatic adaptation of William Shakespeare's Othello. An all black cast and crew, including budding actor Yaphet Kotto in his first role, created the film. Yaphet Kotto as Othello<br> Benjamin Ashburn as Montano<br> Olive Bowles as Emilia<br> Louis Chisholm, Jr. as Cassio<br> Audrey Dixon as Desdemona<br> Richard Dixon as Iago<br> Douglas Gray as Roderigo<br> Lincoln Pope as Duke of Venice<br> Liz White as Bianca<br> Jim Williams as Brabantio White's Othello began as an acclaimed performance in 1960-1961 at Shearer Summer Theater, White's own repository
Filming Othello at Boston Symphony Hall.) Some of Welles' "The Other Side of the Wind" crew—Gary Graver, Michael Stringer and Larry Jackson—worked on "Filming Othello". "Filming Othello" uses clips from "Othello", but the footage is not accompanied by the film's dialogue track. "Filming Othello" was first shown at the 1978 Berlin Film Festival. It was first screened in the U.S. in 1979 at the Public Theater in New York, where it played on a double bill with "Othello". However, the film's presentation did not receive newspaper reviews. "Filming Othello" had no further U.S. screenings until it returned to New York in 1987