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King Lear (1998)

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Film details

Featuring

Ian Holm Timothy West Barbara Flynn
Country

United Kingdom
Year

1998
Genre

Drama
Type

Television
Category

Fiction

Synopsis

Richard Eyre's film version of his award-winning Royal National Theatre production. After disinheriting the youngest of his three daughters because she refuses to pander to his desire for flattery, King Lear suffers the torments of rage, humiliation and madness at the hands of his two eldest daughters before arriving at a painful self-knowledge.

Cast & Credits

Cast
- - King Lear
    
    Ian Holm
  - Gloucester
    
    Timothy West
  - Goneril
    
    Barbara Flynn
  - Regan
    
    Amanda Redman
  - Fool
    
    Michael Bryant
  - Kent
    
    David Burke
  - Edgar
    
    Paul Rhys
  - Edmund
    
    Lynch, Finbar
  - Cordelia
    
    Victoria Hamilton
  - Albany
    
    David Lyon
  - Cornwall
    
    Michael Simkins
  - Oswald
    
    William Osborne
  - old man
    
    Harry Jones
  - France
    
    Adrian Irvine
  - Burgundy
    
    Nicholas Bailey
  - Lear's knight
    
    Martin Chamberlain
  - captain
    
    Paul Benzing
  - messenger
    
    James Kerr
Credits
- Unknown:
  - Director
    
    Richard Eyre
  - Production Company
    
    Chestermead Productions
  - Production Company
    
    BBC Films
  - Production Company
    
    WGBH (Boston)
  - Commissioning Company
    
    BBC
  - Executive Producer (BBC)
    
    Simon Curtis
  - Executive Producer (WGBH/Boston)
    
    Rebecca Eaton
  - Producer
    
    Sue Birtwistle
  - Co-producer
    
    Joy Spink
  - Author of the Original Work
    
    William Shakespeare
  - Director of Photography
    
    Roger Pratt
  - Production Designer
    
    Bob Crowley
  - Sound
    
    John Pritchard
  - Studio
    
    Shepperton Studios

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