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King Lear Cast and Credits
Cast

| Lear | Ian Holm
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| Gloucester | Timothy West
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| Goneril | Barbara Flynn
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| Regan | Amanda Redman
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| The Fool | Michael Bryant
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| Kent | David Burke
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| Edgar | Paul Rhys
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| Edmund | Finbar Lynch
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| Duke of Albany | David Lyon
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| Duke of Cornwall | Michael Simkins
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| Cordelia | Victoria Hamilton
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| Oswald | William Osborne
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| Old Man | Harry Jones
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| France | Adrian Irvine
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| Duke of Burgundy | Nicholas Bailey
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| Messenger | James Kerr
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| Lear's Knight/Messenger | Martin Chamberlain
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| Captain/Messenger | Paul Benzing
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Production Credits

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| Executive producer BBC | Simon Curtis
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| Executive producer WGBH Boston | Rebecca Eaton
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| Producer | Sue Birtwistle
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| Co-producer | Joy Spink
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| Director | Richard Eyre
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King Lear is a Chestermead Production for BBC TV and WGBH Boston. William Shakespeare's King Lear is a film version of director Richard Eyre's award-winning Royal National Theatre production. The producers are Sue Birtwistle (Pride and Prejudice) and Joy Spink; the executive producers are Simon Curtis (BBC) and Rebecca Eaton (WGBH Boston).
Masterpiece Theatre is presented on PBS by WGBH Boston, where Rebecca Eaton is series executive producer. Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Russell Baker is series host. Masterpiece Theatre is closed captioned for deaf and hard-of-hearing viewers by The Caption Center at WGBH.
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