King Lear

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King Lear

1983

2h 38m

6.5(9 votes)

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.

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21 members

Acting

Laurence Olivier

King Lear

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John Hurt

The Fool

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Brian Cox

Burgundy

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Dorothy Tutin

Goneril

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Anna Calder-Marshall

Cordelia

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Diana Rigg

Regan

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Leo McKern

Gloucester

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David Threlfall

Edgar

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Robert Lindsay

Edmund

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Colin Blakely

Kent

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Jeremy Kemp

Cornwall

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Robert Lang

Albany

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Edward Petherbridge

France

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Geoffrey Bateman

Oswald

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John Cording

Lear's Knight

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Benny Young

Cornwall's Servant

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Esmond Knight

Old Man

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Ian Ruskin

Edmund's Officer

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Paul Curran

Doctor

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Ronald Forfar

First Officer

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Harry Walker

Second Officer

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