King Lear - 1916

An aging King invites disaster, when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters, and rejects his loving and honest one.

Country USA

Production Country USA

Language English

Spoken Language No Language

Gnere Drama

Production Company Thanhouser Company

Release Date 17 December 1916

63 mins

Cast

Frederick Warde King Lear

Lorraine Huling Cordelia

Ernest C. Warde The Fool

Wayne Arey The Duke of Albany

J.H. Gilmour The Earl of Kent

Hector Dion Edmund

Edwin Stanley Edgar

Boyd Marshall King of France

Ina Hammer Goneril

Edith Diestel Regan

Charles Brook The Duke of Cornwall (as Charles Brooks)

Robert Whittier Oswald

Henry Ardsley Gloucester

Crew

Director

Ernest C. Warde

Writer

Philip Lonergan

Producer

Edwin Thanhouser

Cinematography

John M. Bauman

William Zollinger

Original Writer

William Shakespeare