King Lear

Synopsis: Televised adaptation of the play with Michael Hordern in the title role and Frank Middlemass as the Fool.
Series: Play of the Month
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Medium: Television
Technical information: Colour / Sound
Transmission details: 23 Mar 1975 (Channel: BBC1)
Duration: 121 mins

Notes: Director Jonathan Miller first directed the play with actors Michael Hordern and Frank Middlemass in 1969 at Nottingham Playhouse, Nottingham; he subsequently directed the same pair for the BBC TV Shakespeare production of the play in 1982.
History: This is part of a series of eight Shakespeareare plays produced for BBC by Cedric Messina, who was to launch the production of the BBC TV Shakespeare series three years later.

Michael Hordern	Lear
Angela Down	Cordelia
Anthony Nicholls	Earl of Gloucester
Frank Middlemas	Fool
Ronald Pickup	Edgar, later disguised as Tom o’Bedlam
Benjamin Whitrow	Duke of Albany
Ewan Hooper	Earl of Kent
John Shrapnel	Duke of Cornwall
Michael Jayston	Edmund
Penelope Wilton	Regan
Sarah Badel	Goneril

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