King Lear

King Lear

1983-04-03 158 min ★ 6.7
DramaTV Movie

An aging King invites disaster when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters and rejects his one loving, but honest one.

Cast

John Hurt
John Hurt
The Fool
Dorothy Tutin
Dorothy Tutin
Goneril
David Threlfall
David Threlfall
Edgar
Robert Lang
Robert Lang
Albany
Edward Petherbridge
Edward Petherbridge
France
Benny Young
Benny Young
Cornwall's Servant
Ian Ruskin
Ian Ruskin
Edmund's Officer
Robert Lindsay
Robert Lindsay
Edmund
Colin Blakely
Colin Blakely
Kent
Laurence Olivier
Laurence Olivier
King Lear
Geoffrey Bateman
Geoffrey Bateman
Oswald
Brian Cox
Brian Cox
Burgundy
Anna Calder-Marshall
Anna Calder-Marshall
Cordelia
Diana Rigg
Diana Rigg
Regan
Leo McKern
Leo McKern
Gloucester
Jeremy Kemp
Jeremy Kemp
Cornwall
Esmond Knight
Esmond Knight
Old Man