King Lear
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PG
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King Lear

DramaTV Movie

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

Apr 3, 1983158 minReleasedEN
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Laurence Olivier

Laurence Olivier

King Lear

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John Hurt

John Hurt

The Fool

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Brian Cox

Brian Cox

Burgundy

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Dorothy Tutin

Dorothy Tutin

Goneril

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Anna Calder-Marshall

Anna Calder-Marshall

Cordelia

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Diana Rigg

Diana Rigg

Regan

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Leo McKern

Leo McKern

Gloucester

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David Threlfall

David Threlfall

Edgar

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Robert Lindsay

Robert Lindsay

Edmund

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Colin Blakely

Colin Blakely

Kent

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Jeremy Kemp

Jeremy Kemp

Cornwall

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Robert Lang

Robert Lang

Albany

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Edward Petherbridge

Edward Petherbridge

France

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Geoffrey Bateman

Geoffrey Bateman

Oswald

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Benny Young

Benny Young

Cornwall's Servant

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Esmond Knight

Esmond Knight

Old Man

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Ian Ruskin

Ian Ruskin

Edmund's Officer

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