King Lear
DramaTV Movie
An aging King invites disaster, when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters, and rejects his loving and honest one.
🎬 DirectorRichard Eyre
📅 Release2018-05-28
🌍 CountryUnited Kingdom
🗣 LanguageEnglish
🏢 StudioPlayground Entertainment, Sonia Friedman Productions, BBC
🗳 Votes105
🔥 Popularity2
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🎭 Cast
Anthony Hopkins
Lear
Emma Thompson
Goneril
Emily Watson
Regan
Jim Broadbent
Earl of Gloucester
Florence Pugh
Cordelia
Jim Carter
Earl of Kent
Andrew Scott
Edgar
John Macmillan
Edmund
Tobias Menzies
Duke of Cornwall
Anthony Calf
Duke of Albany
Karl Johnson
Fool
Christopher Eccleston
Oswald
John Standing
Butler
Simon Manyonda
Duke of Burgundy
Chukwudi Iwuji
King of France
🎥 Crew
Writer
Richard Eyre
Standby Property Master
Kevin Day
Director
Richard Eyre
Location Manager
Ben Gladstone
Producer
Noëlette Buckley
Executive Producer
Colin Callender
Theatre Play
William Shakespeare
Third Assistant Director
Luc Gavigan
Special Effects Supervisor
Chris Reynolds
Production Sound Mixer
Simon Clark
🖼 Gallery
🏷 Keywords
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💬 Reviews
**_A strong adaptation marred by a poor central performance_** > _The Lear of Shakespeare cannot be acted. The contemptible machinery by which they mimic the storm which he goes out in, is not more inadequate to represent the horrors of the real elements, than any actor can be to represent Lear: they might more easily propose to personate the Satan of Milton upon a stage, or one of Michael Ang…
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