King Lear

King Lear (1975)


  • Genre: Drama
  • Release Date: 1975-03-23
  • Runtime: 2h 0min
  • Language: English
  • Production Company: BBC
  • Production Country: United Kingdom
  • Director: Jonathan Miller

Summary

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.

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  • Michael Hordern

    as King Lear

  • Sarah Badel

    as Goneril

  • Penelope Wilton

    as Regan

  • Angela Down

    as Cordelia

  • Frank Middlemass

    as Fool

  • Anthony Nicholls

    as Earl of Gloucester

  • Michael Jayston

    as Edmund

  • Ronald Pickup

    as Edgar

  • Ewan Hooper

    as Earl of Kent

  • Benjamin Whitrow

    as Duke of Albany

  • John Shrapnel

    as Duke of Cornwall

  • Donald Gee

    as Oswald

  • David Horovitch

    as Duke of Burgundy

  • David Neal

    as King of France

  • George Merritt

    as Old Man

  • Mike Hayward

    as First Servant

  • Roger Elliott

    as Second Servant

  • Geoffrey Collins

    as Third Servant

  • David Kincaid

    as Gentleman / Attendanton Cordelia

  • Leslie Glazer

    as Doctor

  • Paul Haley

    as Captain

  • David Sinclair

    as Herald

  • Alec Sabin

    as First Officer

  • Terry Wright

    as Second Officer
Directing Jonathan Miller Director
Production Cedric Messina Producer
Art Vic Symonds Production Design
Costume & Make-Up Juanita Waterson Costume Design
Production Fraser Lowden Production Manager
Production Martin Friend Production Assistant
Costume & Make-Up Eileen Mair Makeup & Hair
Lighting Dennis Channon Lighting Director
Sound Colin Dixon Sound
Writing Alan Shallcross Script Editor
Writing William Shakespeare Writer

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