---
title: 'King Lear (1999)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Brian Blessed'
released: '1999-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 190
genres:
  - 'Drama'
countries:
  - 'United Kingdom'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/king-lear-1999'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0302691/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# King Lear (1999)

1999 · 190 min · Drama · United Kingdom


## Synopsis

King Lear is a 1999 adaptation of William Shakespeare's play of the same name. The film stars Brian Blessed in the title role. Apart from Peter Brook's King Lear in 1971, it is the only feature-length film adaptation to preserve Shakespeare's verse. Yvonne Griggs, in Shakespeare's King Lear: A close study of the relationship between text and film (2009), characterised it as "a very stilted costume drama".

## Credits

- **Director:** [Brian Blessed](https://cinepixo.com/people/brian-blessed), [Tony Rotherham](https://cinepixo.com/people/tony-rotherham)

## Cast

- [Jason Riddington](https://cinepixo.com/people/jason-riddington) as Edmund
- [Hildegarde Neil](https://cinepixo.com/people/hildegarde-neil) as the Fool
- [Paul Curran](https://cinepixo.com/people/paul-curran-2) as King of France
- [Claire Laurie](https://cinepixo.com/people/claire-laurie) as Regan
- [Caroline Lennon](https://cinepixo.com/people/caroline-lennon) as Goneril
- [Graham McTavish](https://cinepixo.com/people/graham-mctavish) as Duke of Albany
- [Brian Blessed](https://cinepixo.com/people/brian-blessed) as Lear
- [Phillipa Peak](https://cinepixo.com/people/phillipa-peak) as Cordelia

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