King Lear
King Lear
Release: 1975-03-23
·Runtime: 120m
Drama
King Lear, old and tired, divides his kingdom among his daughters, giving great importance to their protestations of love for him. When Cordelia, youngest and most honest, refuses to idly flatter the old man in return for favor, he banishes her and turns for support to his remaining daughters. But Goneril and Regan have no love for him and instead plot to take all his power from him. In a parallel, Lear's loyal courtier Gloucester favors his illegitimate son Edmund after being told lies about his faithful son Edgar. Madness and tragedy befall both ill-starred fathers.
Production Countries
United Kingdom
Production Companies
BBC
Cast
Michael Hordern
as King Lear
Ronald Pickup
as Edgar
John Shrapnel
as Duke of Cornwall
Sarah Badel
as Goneril
Frank Middlemass
as Fool
Anthony Nicholls
as Earl of Gloucester
Michael Jayston
as Edmund
Ewan Hooper
as Earl of Kent
Benjamin Whitrow
as Duke of Albany
Penelope Wilton
as Regan
Donald Gee
as Oswald
George Merritt
as Old Man
David Neal
as King of France
Angela Down
as Cordelia
David Horovitch
as Duke of Burgundy
