An aging King invites disaster, when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters, and rejects his loving and honest one.

Michael Hordern
as King Lear

Brenda Blethyn
as Cordelia

Gillian Barge
as Goneril

Penelope Wilton
as Regan

John Shrapnel
as Earl of Kent

Norman Rodway
as Earl of Gloucester

Michael Kitchen
as Edmund

John Bird
as Duke of Albany

Julian Curry
as Duke of Cornwall

David Weston
as Duke of Burgundy