Allied Artists released a 1956 version of The Hunchback of Notre Dame shot in Technicolor and Cinemascope. Jean Delannoy directed the Paris-lensed production, with Anthony Quinn as Quasimodo and Gina Lollobrigida as Esmeralda. This was one of the few versions to use the novel's original ending, with Quasimodo dying with his arms wrapped around Esmeralda's corpse.

A year later, James Cagney appeared in a reconstruction of the Lon Chaney silent in the Chaney biopic Man of a Thousand Faces (1957). Perc Westmore, who had created Charles Laughton's makeup, designed a scaled down version for Cagney.

Other big-screen remakes include a Japanese version from 1957 and a 1973 Filipino film. The film also inspired the teen comedy Big Man on Campus (1989) and the French film Quasimodo d'El Paris (1999), which sets the story in a modern small town where Quasimodo is suspected of being a serial killer.

Quasimodo first reached television in a 1976 BBC telefeature starring Warren Clarke and Michelle Newell. Anthony Hopkins took on the role in a Hallmark Hall of Fame production in 1982, with Derek Jacobi as Frollo and Lesley-Anne Down as Esmeralda. Mandy Patinkin, Richard Harris and Salma Hayek played the same roles in a 1997 adaptation titled The Hunchback for TNT. Other television versions include a 1986 animated cartoon from Australia and the 1996 cable film The Halfback of Notre Dame.

Disney released a full-length animated version of the story in 1996 with Tom Hulce voicing Quasimodo and Demi Moore as Esmeralda, Kevin Kline as Phoebus and Jason Alexander, Charles Kimbrough and Mary Wickes as friendly gargoyles. The studio has announced plans to turn the film, with songs by Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz, into a Broadway musical.

by Frank Miller