King Lear

Synopsis: Fiction film. King Lear directed by Ernest Warde and adapted by Philip Lonergan with Frederick Warde as Lear.
Country: United States
Medium: Film
Technical information: Black-and-white / Silent
Year of release: 1916
Recording date: 17 Dec 1916
Duration: c55; c5000 feet

Notes: The film was restored by Thanhouser Company Film Preservation, Inc from a print at George Eastman House, NY and is contained in THANHOUSER COLLECTION. VOLUME 7: THANHOUSER PRESENTS SHAKESPEARE released in 2007. Length 35minutes 56 seconds. This surviving print, cut down for a later re-release, is half its original length.
Reviews: Ball, Robert Hamilton. Shakespeare on Silent Film: A Strange Eventful History. London: George Allen and Unwin, 1968 (pp.241-2, 365-6). The Moving Picture World (23 December) reviewer writes ‘Aided by a clear and concise scenario, Mr Warde and his fellow players throw many pictures on the screen by which the soul of the tragedy, as well as its physical action, finds expression...'

Shakespeare, "King Lear". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/shakespeare/search/index.php/title/av68572 (Accessed 20 Sep 2024)

Frederick Warde	Lear
Lorraine Huling	Cordelia
Ernest Warde	Fool
Edgar Stanley	Edgar, later disguised as Tom o’Bedlam
Boyd Marshall	King of France
Charles Brookes	Duke of Cornwall
Edith Diestal	Regan
Edmund Dion	Edmund
Ina Hammer	Goneril
J.H. Gilmour	Earl of Kent
Robert Whittier	Oswald
Wayne Arey	Duke of Albany

SHAKESPEARE