King Lear

King Lear

158 mins | Drama, TV Movie | April 3, 1983

An aging King invites disaster when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters and rejects his one loving, but honest one.

King Lear

158 mins | Drama, TV Movie | April 3, 1983

King Lear
An aging King invites disaster when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters and rejects his one loving, but honest one.
IMDb rating 7.6
Producers Granada Television
Original title King Lear
Directors Michael Elliott
Writers William Shakespeare

Cast

Laurence Olivier

as King Lear

John Hurt

as The Fool

Brian Cox

as Burgundy

Dorothy Tutin

as Goneril

Anna Calder-Marshall

as Cordelia

Diana Rigg

as Regan

Leo McKern

as Gloucester

David Threlfall

as Edgar

Robert Lindsay

as Edmund

Colin Blakely

as Kent

Jeremy Kemp

as Cornwall

Robert Lang

as Albany