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Release date:Apr 3, 1983

Runtime:2h 38m

King Lear

★ 5.8

Synopsis of "King Lear":

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

Director:

Michael Elliott

Genres:

DramaTV Movie

Language:

English

Cast of "King Lear":

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

Edward Petherbridge ... as France

Geoffrey Bateman ... as Oswald

John Cording ... as Lear's Knight

Benny Young ... as Cornwall's Servant

Esmond Knight ... as Old Man

Ian Ruskin ... as Edmund's Officer

Paul Curran ... as Doctor

Ronald Forfar ... as First Officer

Harry Walker ... as Second Officer

Crew:

William Shakespeare... (Theatre Play)

Gordon Crosse... (Original Music Composer)

Content rating:

PG (United States)

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