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Starring:
Cyril Cusack - Albany
Susan Engel - Regan
Tom Fleming - Kent
Anne-Lise Gabold - Cordelia
Ian Hogg - Edmund
Søren Elung Jensen - Duke of Burgundy
Robert Langdon Lloyd - Edgar (as Robert Lloyd)
Jack MacGowran - Fool
Patrick Magee - Cornwall
Paul Scofield - King Lear
Barry Stanton - Oswald
Alan Webb - Gloucester
Irene Worth - Goneril
Studio: Athéna Films, Filmways Pictures, Royal Shakespeare Company, Laterna Films
Filmed: 1971 - Released: 1971
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