Diễn viên
John Hurt
The Fool
Diana Rigg
Regan
David Threlfall
Edgar
Jeremy Kemp
Cornwall
Esmond Knight
Old Man
Geoffrey Bateman
Oswald
Laurence Olivier
King Lear
Leo McKern
Gloucester
Robert Lindsay
Edmund
Colin Blakely
Kent
Robert Lang
Albany
Edward Petherbridge
France
Ian Ruskin
Edmund's Officer
Brian Cox
Burgundy
Benny Young
Cornwall's Servant
Dorothy Tutin
Goneril
Anna Calder-Marshall
Cordelia