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King Lear
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King Lear

Apr 3, 1983
2h 38m
★ 6.5

Overview

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

Genres

Drama
TV Movie

Production Companies

Granada Television

Cast

Laurence Olivier

King Lear

Laurence Olivier

John Hurt

The Fool

John Hurt

Brian Cox

Burgundy

Brian Cox

Dorothy Tutin

Goneril

Dorothy Tutin

Anna Calder-Marshall

Cordelia

Anna Calder-Marshall

Diana Rigg

Regan

Diana Rigg

Leo McKern

Gloucester

Leo McKern

David Threlfall

Edgar

David Threlfall

Robert Lindsay

Edmund

Robert Lindsay

Colin Blakely

Kent

Colin Blakely

Jeremy Kemp

Cornwall

Jeremy Kemp

Robert Lang

Albany

Robert Lang

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