King Lear
King Lear
Release: 1983-04-03
·Runtime: 158m
·★ 6.5
Drama
TV Movie
An aging King invites disaster when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters and rejects his one loving, but honest one.
Production Countries
United Kingdom
Production Companies
Granada Television
Cast
Benny Young
as Cornwall's Servant
Esmond Knight
as Old Man
John Hurt
as The Fool
Diana Rigg
as Regan
Leo McKern
as Gloucester
Ian Ruskin
as Edmund's Officer
Dorothy Tutin
as Goneril
Anna Calder-Marshall
as Cordelia
Jeremy Kemp
as Cornwall
Edward Petherbridge
as France
Laurence Olivier
as King Lear
Brian Cox
as Burgundy
Robert Lindsay
as Edmund
Colin Blakely
as Kent
Geoffrey Bateman
as Oswald
David Threlfall
as Edgar
Robert Lang
as Albany
