03 April 1983 Drama, TV Movie 158 mins
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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Laurence Olivier as King Lear
John Hurt as The Fool
Brian Cox as Burgundy
Dorothy Tutin as Goneril
Anna Calder-Marshall as Cordelia
Diana Rigg as Regan
Leo McKern as Gloucester
David Threlfall as Edgar
Robert Lindsay as Edmund
Colin Blakely as Kent
Jeremy Kemp as Cornwall
Robert Lang as Albany
Edward Petherbridge as France
Geoffrey Bateman as Oswald
John Cording as Lear's Knight
Benny Young as Cornwall's Servant
United Kingdom 03 April 1983
United States 26 January 1984
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