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King Lear

6.7 158 mins Drama   TV Movie   1983
Granada Television  
Director(s): Michael Elliott

Release Date: 03 Sun, Apr 1983

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

Casts 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

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

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