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King Lear
1975, Mar 23
2h 0m
King Lear, old and tired, divides his kingdom among his daughters, giving great importance to their protestations of love for him. When Cordelia, youngest and most honest, refuses to idly flatter the old man in return for favor, he banishes her and turns for support to his remaining daughters. But Goneril and Regan have no love for him and instead plot to take all his power from him. In a parallel, Lear's loyal courtier Gloucester favors his illegitimate son Edmund after being told lies about his faithful son Edgar. Madness and tragedy befall both ill-starred fathers.
Directed by
Jonathan Miller
Penelope Wilton
Regan
Michael Hordern
King Lear
John Shrapnel
Duke of Cornwall
Ronald Pickup
Edgar
Frank Middlemass
Fool
Sarah Badel
Goneril
Benjamin Whitrow
Duke of Albany
David Horovitch
Duke of Burgundy
Anthony Nicholls
Earl of Gloucester
Michael Jayston
Edmund
Donald Gee
Oswald
Angela Down
Cordelia
George Merritt
Old Man
Ewan Hooper
Earl of Kent
David Neal
King of France
Mike Hayward
First Servant
Roger Elliott
Second Servant
Geoffrey Collins
Third Servant
David Kincaid
Gentleman / Attendanton Cordelia
Leslie Glazer
Doctor
Paul Haley
Captain
David Sinclair
Herald
Alec Sabin
First Officer
Terry Wright
Second Officer
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