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King Lear

Directed by Trevor Nunn
2008    2h 30m    TV-PG
Drama
7.571%
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Sir Ian McKellen gives a tour-de-force performance as Shakespeare's tragic monarch, in this special television adaptation of the Royal Shakespeare Company production of one of the playwright's most enduring and haunting works.
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Cast of King Lear
  • Ian McKellenKing Lear
  • Romola GaraiCordelia
  • Monica DolanRegan
  • Sylvester McCoyThe Fool
  • Philip WinchesterEdmund
  • Peter HintonDuke of Burgundy
  • Jonathan HydeEarl of Kent
  • Frances BarberGoneril
  • William GauntEarl of Gloucester
  • Julian HarriesDuke of Albany

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