King Lear
1983
Drama
TV Movie
Overview
An aging King invites disaster when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters and rejects his one loving, but honest one.
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
Directors
Michael Elliott