King Lear (1983)

6.7/10 • 158 min • 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

John Hurt

Brian Cox

Dorothy Tutin

Anna Calder-Marshall

Diana Rigg

Leo McKern

David Threlfall

Robert Lindsay

Colin Blakely

Jeremy Kemp

Robert Lang

Edward Petherbridge

Geoffrey Bateman

Benny Young

Cornwall's Servant

Esmond Knight

Ian Ruskin

Edmund's Officer

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