King Lear

Cast & Crew

Crew
Captain	Alan Townsend
Cordelia	Yvonne Mitchell
Curan	William Peacock
Doctor	Michael Turner
Duke of Albany	Michael Warre
Duke of Burgundy	David King
Duke of Cornwall	Powys Thomas
Earl of Gloucester	Noel Howlett
Earl of Kent	Harry Andrews
Edgar	Basil Hoskins
Edmund	Robert Shaw
Fool	Marius Goring
Gentleman	Peter Johnson
Goneril	Joan Sanderson
Herald	Jerome Willis
King Lear	Michael Redgrave
King of France	Michael Hayes
Knight	Bernard Kay
Knight	Philip Morant
Officer	John Glendenning
Officer	Charles Gray
Officer	George Hart
Old Man	Donald Eccles
Oswald	Donald Pleasence
Regan	Rachel Kempson
Servant	Mervyn Blake
Servant	Peter Duguid
Servant	James Wellman
Unnamed parts	Dennis Clinton
Unnamed parts	James Culliford
Unnamed parts	Nigel Davenport
Unnamed parts	Denys Graham
Unnamed parts	Charles Howard
Unnamed parts	Gareth Jones
Unnamed parts	Cavan Malone
Unnamed parts	Richard Martin
Unnamed parts	John Roberts
Unnamed parts	Raymond Sherry
Designer	Robert Colquhoun
Director	George Devine
Fight Arranger	Michael Warre
Light Designer	Peter Streuli
Music by	John Gardner
Playwright	William Shakespeare

Source: RSC Performance Database
Last modified by Elizabeth O’Brien.

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Photo credits

Michael Redgrave as Lear & Marius Goring as the Fool in King Lear 1953, Other public domain

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