King Lear

Shakespeare’s tragedy, made for British television, is given a full-blooded rendition here with the great Laurence Olivier in the title role and a stellar cast to support him, in the tale of a king torn apart by the ambition and treachery within his family and by his own pride., Laurence Olivier is the consummate King Lear, monarch of 9th-century Britain, in this handsomely staged version of Shakespeare’s bloody tragedy. Gloucester: Leo McKern. Goneril: Dorothy Tutin. Regan: Diana Rigg. Fool: John Hurt. Kent: Colin Blakely. Edmund: Robert Lindsay. Cordelia: Anna Calder-Marshall.