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King Lear

BBC One
on BBC One London

by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
A Play of the Month presentation with and Make-up EILEEN MAIR
Costume designer JUANITA WATERSON Lighting DENNIS CHANNON Designer VIC symonds
Producer CEDRIC MESSINA Director JONATHAN MILLER
The 1948 production of John Gielgud in Hamlet: today 5.20-9.0 pm R3. Two gentlemen of the drama - Jonathan Miller on directing Lear for TV and Sir John Gielgud remembering Hamlet: see feature pages

Contributors

Unknown:
William Shakespeare
Unknown:
Eileen Mair
Designer:
Juanita Waterson
Unknown:
Dennis Channon
Designer:
Vic Symonds
Producer:
Cedric Messina
Director:
Jonathan Miller
Unknown:
John Gielgud
Unknown:
Jonathan Miller
Unknown:
Sir John Gielgud
King Lear:
Michael Hordern
Goneril:
Sarah Badel
Cordelia:
Angela Down
Edmund:
Michael Jayston
the Fool:
Frank Middiemass
the:
Anthony Nicholls
Earl:
Of Gloucester
Edgar:
Ronald Pickup
Regan:
Penelope Wilton
Earl of Kent:
Ewan Hooper
Duke of Albany:
Benjamin Whitrow
Duke of Cornwall:
John Shrapnel
Oswald:
Donald Gee
Duke of Burgundy:
David Horovitch
King of France:
David Neal
First servant:
Mike Hayward
Second servant:
Roger Elliott
Third servant:
Geoffrey Collins
Old man:
George Merritt
Gentleman, attendant on Cordelia:
David Kincaid
Doctor:
Leslie Glazer
Captain:
Paul Haley
Herald:
David Sinclair
First Officer:
Alec Sabin
Second Officer:
Terry Wright
Source: Radio Times

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