King Lear

Name: King Lear
Cast: Laurence Olivier, John Hurt, Brian Cox, Dorothy Tutin, Anna Calder-Marshall

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

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Cast & Crew

Director: Michael Elliott

Laurence Olivier

as King Lear

John Hurt

as The Fool

Brian Cox

as Burgundy

Dorothy Tutin

as Goneril

Anna Calder-Marshall

as Cordelia

Diana Rigg

as Regan

Leo McKern

as Gloucester

David Threlfall

as Edgar

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