King Lear

6.7/ 10 10 votes 1983-04-03 2h 38m 1 popularity

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

Director: Michael Elliott

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Cast

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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

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