King Lear

Michael Elliott
1983-04-03


6.5
158 min

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

Cast

Name Character Team
Laurence Olivier King Lear Unowned
John Hurt The Fool Unowned
Brian Cox Burgundy Goutbreak
Dorothy Tutin Goneril Unowned
Anna Calder-Marshall Cordelia Unowned
Diana Rigg Regan Unowned
Leo McKern Gloucester Unowned
David Threlfall Edgar Unowned
Robert Lindsay Edmund Unowned
Colin Blakely Kent Unowned
Jeremy Kemp Cornwall Unowned
Robert Lang Albany Unowned
Edward Petherbridge France Unowned
Geoffrey Bateman Oswald Unowned
John Cording Lear's Knight Unowned
Benny Young Cornwall's Servant Unowned
Esmond Knight Old Man Unowned
Ian Ruskin Edmund's Officer Unowned
Paul Curran Doctor Unowned
Ronald Forfar First Officer Unowned
Harry Walker Second Officer Unowned