King Lear

Name: King Lear
Genre: Drama, TV Movie
Released: 1983-04-03
Duration: 158 min
Rating: 8.5
Cast: Laurence Olivier, John Hurt, Brian Cox, Dorothy Tutin, Anna Calder-Marshall

1983·Drama·2h 38m

8.5

★

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

Directed by Michael Elliott

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IMDB

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Letterboxd

3.5 / 5

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

Crew

William Shakespeare

Theatre Play

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