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