King Lear
April 3, 1983 2h 38m
★ 6.5 (9 votes)
DramaTV Movie
Overview
An aging King invites disaster when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters and rejects his one loving, but honest one.
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Top 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
John Cording
Lear's Knight
Benny Young
Cornwall's Servant
Status: Released
Production Companies: Granada Television
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