King Lear

6.5/10 TMDB1983Drama158 minutes

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

William Shakespeare

Theatre Play

Michael Elliott

Director

Gordon Crosse

Original Music Composer

Cast

John Hurt

The Fool

Brian Cox

Burgundy

Laurence Olivier

King Lear

Diana Rigg

Regan

Jeremy Kemp

Cornwall

David Threlfall

Edgar

Leo McKern

Gloucester

Anna Calder-Marshall

Cordelia

Robert Lindsay

Edmund

Robert Lang

Albany

Benny Young

Cornwall's Servant

John Cording

Lear's Knight

Media

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Genres

DramaTV Movie

Runtime

158 minutes

Language

English

Country

United Kingdom

Release Date

April 3, 1983

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RATINGS

6.5/10

TMDB's User Score

9 votes