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

Laurence Olivier
King Lear

John Hurt
The Fool

Brian Cox
Burgundy

Dorothy Tutin
Goneril

Anna Calder-Marshall
Cordelia

Diana Rigg
Regan

Leo McKern
Gloucester

David Threlfall
Edgar

Robert Lindsay
Edmund

Colin Blakely
Kent

Jeremy Kemp
Cornwall

Robert Lang
Albany

Edward Petherbridge
France

Geoffrey Bateman
Oswald
John Cording
Lear's Knight