King Lear

King Lear (1983)

Drama TV Movie

Runtime: 158 minutes

Overview

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

Laurence Olivier

Laurence Olivier

King Lear

John Hurt

John Hurt

The Fool

Brian Cox

Brian Cox

Burgundy

Dorothy Tutin

Dorothy Tutin

Goneril

Anna Calder-Marshall

Anna Calder-Marshall

Cordelia

Diana Rigg

Diana Rigg

Regan

Leo McKern

Leo McKern

Gloucester

David Threlfall

David Threlfall

Edgar

Robert Lindsay

Robert Lindsay

Edmund

Colin Blakely

Colin Blakely

Kent