King Lear is a 1916 silent film based on the 1606 play, directed by Ernest C. Warde and starring his father, the noted stage actor Frederick Warde. The film is one of a spate of Shakespearean films produced at the time to coincide with the 300th anniversary celebrations of William Shakespeare's death.
Cast Frederick Warde as King Lear Ernest Warde as The King's Fool Ina Hammer as Goneril Wayne Arey as The Duke of Albany Edith Diestal as Regan Charles Brooks as The Duke of Cornwall Lorraine Huling as Cordelia J.H. Gilmour as The Earl of Kent Boyd Marshall as The King of France Hector Dion as Edmund Edwin Stanley as Edgar Robert Whittier as Oswald
Plot The synopsis provided by the studio in The Moving Picture World was:
Preservation status King Lear survives and was preserved by George Eastman House. It can be found on home video and or DVD.
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