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