An aging King invites disaster when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters and rejects his one loving, but honest one.
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
Edward Petherbridge
France
Geoffrey Bateman
Oswald
John Cording
Lear's Knight
Benny Young
Cornwall's Servant
Esmond Knight
Old Man
Ian Ruskin
Edmund's Officer
Paul Curran
Doctor
Ronald Forfar
First Officer
Harry Walker
Second Officer
Michael Elliott
Director
Mar 23, 1997
Feb 26, 2021
Mar 7, 1973
Dec 13, 1966
Feb 16, 1967
Sep 18, 2008
Nov 17, 1939
Sep 12, 1957
Jun 23, 2012
May 28, 2018
Oct 20, 2018
May 20, 2000
Apr 26, 2014
Jan 21, 2003
Jan 21, 2018
Dec 6, 2015
Granada Television
GB
United Kingdom
English