An aging King invites disaster, when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters, and rejects his loving and honest one.
Michael Hordern
as King Lear
Brenda Blethyn
as Cordelia
Gillian Barge
as Goneril
Penelope Wilton
as Regan
John Shrapnel
as Earl of Kent
Norman Rodway
as Earl of Gloucester
Michael Kitchen
as Edmund
John Bird
as Duke of Albany
Julian Curry
as Duke of Cornwall
David Weston
as Duke of Burgundy
Harry Waters
as King of France
Anton Lesser
as Edgar
