King Lear

King Lear
1983DramaTV Movie158 mins
★★★★★

Plot

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

  • Michael Elliott

    Director

  • William Shakespeare

    Theatre Play

  • 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

    • Runtime

    158 minutes

    Released

    1983-04-03

    Languages

    English

    Countries

    United Kingdom

    Studios

    Granada Television

    Updated

    77 days ago

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