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King Lear
Sir Ian McKellen gives a tour-de-force performance as Shakespeare's tragic monarch, in this special television adaptation of the Royal Shakespeare Company production of one of the playwright's most enduring and haunting works.
20 August 1943, Dunoon, Strathclyde, Scotland, UK
13 May 1958, Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, England, UK
30 June 1981, Billericay, Essex, England, UK
6 August 1982, Hong Kong, British Crown Colony
1945, Brighton, England, UK
3 April 1937, Pudsey, Yorkshire, England, UK
21 May 1948, Brisbane, Australia
28 July 1938, Norwood, London, England, UK
15 March 1969, Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, England, UK
24 March 1981, Montana, USA
25 May 1939, Burnley, Lancashire, England, UK

