King Lear
9 reviews
Drama/TV Movie
2h 38m
1983
An aging King invites disaster when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters and rejects his one loving, but honest one.
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An aging King invites disaster when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters and rejects his one loving, but honest one.
- DirectorMichael Elliott
- Release3 April 1983
- Genre
- Duration2h 38m
- Budget?
- Revenue?
- Rate9 reviews
- Productions
Granada Television
Cast

Laurence Olivier
King Lear

John Hurt
The Fool

Brian Cox
Burgundy

Dorothy Tutin
Goneril

Anna Calder-Marshall
Cordelia

Diana Rigg
Regan

Leo McKern
Gloucester

David Threlfall
Edgar

Robert Lindsay
Edmund

Colin Blakely
Kent

Jeremy Kemp
Cornwall

Robert Lang
Albany

Edward Petherbridge
France

Geoffrey Bateman
Oswald

Benny Young
Cornwall's Servant

Esmond Knight
Old Man

Ian Ruskin
Edmund's Officer
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