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
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Oswald
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Cornwall's Servant
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Edmund's Officer
Paul Curran
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Ronald Forfar
First Officer
Harry Walker
Second Officer