Word: banquo
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...When Banquo (Richard Blau) and Macbeth (John Lithgow) first appear, for instance, they stand so close together as to be actually touching. After the salutation of the weird sisters Banquo always stands across the stage from Macbeth. That last is simple enough. It was their extreme closeness at first that was so good, both because they had just returned from fighting side by side in a battle, and because when they do draw apart at the witches' greeting it as if the better and the evil part of one-man were differentiating themselves...
Carl Nagin too, who played Macduff, has a good voice and a fine sense of timing. The form employed them well. Blau's Banquo has an air about him that suggests great insight and great sorrow...
Though I approve of your choice of President Kennedy as Man of the Year, his portrait on the cover makes me recoil and shout like Macbeth upon seeing the ghost of Banquo...
...ancillary characters in Macbeath, compared with those in the other great tragedies, are notoriously sketchy. But they constitute the chief acting strength of this production. Donald Harron's Banquo is keen and alert; and Hiram Sherman's drunken Porter is properly diverting...
...Hills, the play-with its bright Highland backgrounds and darkly cloistered interiors-was done in some of the most living color ever seen on television. It was well directed by George Schaefer, who made restrained but effective use of the advantages of film: for the forest-concealed murder of Banquo; for an electronically superimposed vision of his ghost, whose airy lack of substance helped direct attention away from the supernatural and into Macbeth's mind; for the approach of troops, siege ladders, battering rams, and Birnam wood itself to Dunsinane...