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