King Lear (1983)

6.7/10 158 min Drama TV Movie

Overview

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

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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