Overview
An aging King invites disaster when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters and rejects his one loving, but honest one.
Cast
- 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
- Robert Lindsay as Edmund
- Colin Blakely as Kent