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Status
Released
Release
1982
Runtime
3h 5m
Available options inUS
An aging King invites disaster, when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters, and rejects his loving and honest one.
25 Cast Members
Michael Hordern
King Lear
Brenda Blethyn
Cordelia
Gillian Barge
Goneril
Penelope Wilton
Regan
John Shrapnel
Earl of Kent
Norman Rodway
Earl of Gloucester
Michael Kitchen
Edmund
John Bird
Duke of Albany
Julian Curry
Duke of Cornwall
David Weston
Duke of Burgundy
Harry Waters
King of France
Anton Lesser
Edgar
John Grillo
Oswald
Iain Armstrong
First Gentleman
Frank Middlemass
Fool
Ken Stott
Curan
Stuart Blake
First Servant
Tony Sympson
Second Servant
Peter Walmsley
Third Servant
George Howe
Doctor
