King Lear
6.5
158 minutes
4/3/1983
Overview
An aging King invites disaster when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters and rejects his one loving, but honest one.
Cast List
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