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