''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
Frederick Barkham Warde (23 February 1851 – 7 February 1935) was an English Shakespearean actor who relocated to the United States in the late 19th century.
Career
He was born in 1851 in Wardington, Oxfordshire, the son of Thomas Ward and ...
. The film is one of a spate of Shakespearean films produced at the time to coincide with the 300th anniversary celebrations of
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare ( 26 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's nation ...
's death.
Cast
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Frederick Warde
Frederick Barkham Warde (23 February 1851 – 7 February 1935) was an English Shakespearean actor who relocated to the United States in the late 19th century.
Career
He was born in 1851 in Wardington, Oxfordshire, the son of Thomas Ward and ...
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
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Lorraine Huling as Cordelia
*J.H. Gilmour as The Earl of Kent
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Boyd Marshall
Boyd Marshall (June 22, 1884 – November 10, 1950) was an American actor of the stage and screen during the early decades of the 20th century. Born in Ohio in 1884, he moved to New York to pursue a career in acting. He began on the stage and i ...
as The King of France
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Hector Dion
Hector Dion (1881–1943) was an American film actor of the silent era.Low p.300
Selected filmography
* ''Just Like a Woman'' (1912)
* '' The Wrong Bottle'' (1913)
* '' The Crook and the Girl'' (1913)
* '' A Tender-Hearted Crook'' (1913)
* '' The ...
as Edmund
*Edwin Stanley as Edgar
*Robert Whittier as Oswald
Plot
The synopsis provided by the studio in
The Moving Picture World
The ''Moving Picture World'' was an influential early trade journal for the American film industry, from 1907 to 1927. An industry powerhouse at its height, ''Moving Picture World'' frequently reiterated its independence from the film studios.
I ...
was:
Preservation status
''King Lear'' survives and was preserved by
George Eastman House
The George Eastman Museum, also referred to as ''George Eastman House, International Museum of Photography and Film'', the world's oldest museum dedicated to photography and one of the world's oldest film archives, opened to the public in 1949 in ...
. It can be found on home video and or DVD.
See also
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Macbeth
''Macbeth'' (, full title ''The Tragedie of Macbeth'') is a tragedy by William Shakespeare. It is thought to have been first performed in 1606. It dramatises the damaging physical and psychological effects of political ambition on those w ...
'' (1916)
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Richard III
Richard III (2 October 145222 August 1485) was King of England and Lord of Ireland from 26 June 1483 until his death in 1485. He was the last king of the House of York and the last of the Plantagenet dynasty. His defeat and death at the Bat ...
'' (1912)
References
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1916 films
American silent feature films
Films based on King Lear
Thanhouser Company films
American black-and-white films
Articles containing video clips
Silent American drama films
1916 drama films
Pathé Exchange films
Films directed by Ernest C. Warde
1910s American films