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Performance (1991) 07x01 - TView

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07x01 — King Lear

21 March 1998· 141 minseries

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Richard Eyre's film version of his award-winning Royal National Theatre production of Shakespeare's King Lear, showing in the Performance strand and starring Ian Holm. After disinheriting the youngest of his three daughters because she refuses to pander to his desire for flattery, King Lear suffers the torments of rage, humiliation and madness at the hands of his two eldest daughters before arriving at a painful self-knowledge.

Guest Cast

Full Cast & Crew

Barbara Flynn
Goneril
Ian Holm
King Lear
Amanda Redman
Regan
Timothy West
Gloucester
Michael Bryant
Fool
David Burke
Kent
Paul Rhys
Edgar
Finbar Lynch
Edmund
Victoria Hamilton
Cordelia
DL
David Lyon
Albany
Michael Simkins
Cornwall
William Osborne
Oswald

Series Cast

Full Cast & Crew

Bob Hoskins
De Flores
Sean Pertwee
Tomazo
Maynard Eziashi
Jasperino
MM
Myrtle Moss
Nanny
JQ
John Quinn
Sailor
David Warner
Vanya
Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio
Yelena
Rebecca Pidgeon
Sonya
Rachel Kempson
Mariya Vasilyevna
Sandra Voe
Nanny
Roger Hammond
Waffles
JF
Jimmy Flynn
Workman

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