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Original Release
10/05/1991 on BBC
Cast
Name | Character |
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Ian Holm | Duff / Lear / Sir William Collyer |
Elizabeth McGovern | Beatrice-Joanna / Helen Schwartz |
Ronald Pickup | King Henry IV / Richard Browning / Siegfried Shrager |
Jane Horrocks | Beatie Bryant / Doll Tearsheet / Marta |
Fiona Shaw | Hedda Gabler |
Hugh Grant | Alsemero / Richard Neville |
Ian Bannen | Provost |
Stephen Rea | Ejlert Lovborg / Seamus Shields |
David Lyon | Albany |
Leslie Phillips | Vermandero / Judge Michael Argyle |
# | Title | Air Date |
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1 | King Lear | Saturday, 21 March 1998 |
Directors
Simon Curtis, David Thacker, Steve Shill, Bill Bryden, John Caird, Max Stafford-Clark, Lindsay Posner, Stuart Burge, Patrick Marber, Howard Davies, Deborah Warner, Katie Mitchell, Anthony Page, David Hugh Jones, Christopher Morahan, Richard Eyre, Nicholas Renton, Karel Reisz, Harold Pinter, Nye Heron, Sheree Folkson
Writers
William Shakespeare, Henrik Ibsen, Terence Rattigan, Harold Pinter, Michael Hastings, Luigi Pirandello, Dennis Potter, David Thacker, Jim Cartwright, William Rowley, Thomas Middleton, August Strindberg, D.H. Lawrence, Caryl Churchill, Roberto Cossa, Patrick Marber, J.B. Priestley, Rodney Ackland, Una Ellis-Fermor, Melim Teixeira, Fernanda Lapa, Richard Neville, Ronald Mackenzie, Joan Tindale, Sean O'Casey, Geoffrey Robertson, Arnold Wesker, Richard Eyre, Christopher Hampton, John Osborne
Cast
Name | Character |
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Ian Holm | Duff / Lear / Sir William Collyer |
Elizabeth McGovern | Beatrice-Joanna / Helen Schwartz |
Ronald Pickup | King Henry IV / Richard Browning / Siegfried Shrager |
Jane Horrocks | Beatie Bryant / Doll Tearsheet / Marta |
Fiona Shaw | Hedda Gabler |
Hugh Grant | Alsemero / Richard Neville |
Ian Bannen | Provost |
Stephen Rea | Ejlert Lovborg / Seamus Shields |
David Lyon | Albany |
Leslie Phillips | Vermandero / Judge Michael Argyle |
Colin Firth | Charles Holroyd / Freddie Page |
Sophie Thompson | Gillian Player |
Corin Redgrave | Angelo / Earl of Worcester |
Michael Simkins | Cornwall |
Susan Brown | Bill / Maria |
David Calder | Nils Krogstad / Sir John Falstaff |
William Osborne | Cyril Clatworthy / Oswald |
Ray Winstone | P. C. Molson |
Stephen Moore | Art Nicely / Hawkins |
Teddy Kempner | Davy |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Simon Curtis | Executive Producer |
Rebecca Eaton | Executive Producer |
David Snodin | Executive Producer |
Simon Curtis | Producer |
Glyn Edwards | Producer |
Michael Darbon | Producer |
June Collins | Producer |
Ruth S. Mayorcas | Producer |
Fiona Finlay | Producer |
Sue Birtwistle | Producer |
Robert Cooper | Producer |
Jane Hawley | Producer |
Annie Castledine | Producer |
Peter Cregeen | Producer |
Joy Spink | Producer |
Kevin Loader | Producer |
Editors
St. John O'Rorke, Ian Williams, Judith Robson, Anthony Combes, Phil Southby, Stan Pow, Malcolm Banthorpe, Caroline Bleakley, Ken Pearce
Year | Type | Category | Won |
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1999 | Emmy | Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie | Nominated |