Plot
An aging King invites disaster, when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters, and rejects his loving and honest one.
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
Crew
Richard Eyre
Writer
Richard Eyre
Director
Stephen Warbeck
Original Music Composer
Noëlette Buckley
Producer
Ben Smithard
Director of Photography
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