The Dresser
The Dresser
Release: 1983-12-06
·Runtime: 118m
·★ 6.7
Drama
In a touring Shakespearean theater group, a backstage hand - the dresser, is devoted to the brilliant but tyrannical head of the company. He struggles to support the deteriorating star as the company struggles to carry on during the London blitz. The pathos of his backstage efforts rival the pathos in the story of Lear and the Fool that is being presented on-stage, as the situation comes to a crisis.
Production Countries
United Kingdom
Production Companies
Columbia Pictures
Cast
Zena Walker
as Her Ladyship
Eileen Atkins
as Madge
Michael Gough
as Frank Carrington
Sheila Reid
as Lydia Gibson
Cathryn Harrison
as Irene
Betty Marsden
as Violet Manning
Lockwood West
as Geoffrey Thornton
Kathy Staff
as Bombazine Woman
Roger Avon
as Charles
Albert Finney
as Sir
Edward Fox
as Oxenby
Donald Eccles
as Mr. Godstone
Kevin Stoney
as C. Rivers Lane
Tom Courtenay
as Norman
Llewellyn Rees
as Horace Brown
