King Lear
(1916) American
B&W : Five reels
Directed by Ernest C. Warde

Cast: Frederick Warde [King Lear], Ernest C. Warde [the king’s fool], Ina Hammer [Goneril], Lorraine Huling [Cordelia], Wayne Arey [the Duke of Albany], Edith Diestal [Regan], Charles Brooks [the Duke of Cornwall], J.H. Gilmour [the Earl of Kent], Boyd Marshall [the King of France], Hector Dion [Edmund], Edwin Stanley [Edgar], Robert Whittier [Oswald]

Thanhouser Film Corporation production; distributed by [?] Pathé Exchange, Incorporated [Gold Rooster Play]? / Scenario by Philip Lonergan, from the play King Lear by William Shakespeare. Cinematography by John M. Bauman and William M. Zollinger. / No copyright registration. Released 17 December 1916. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format. / [?] Slide-Aspects p. 77 states that Pathé refused to release the film.

Drama: Historical.

Survival Status: Print exists.

Keywords: Authors: William Shakespeare

Listing updated: 2 October 2007.

References: Ball-Shakespeare pp. 241-244, 256b, 365-366; Limbacher-Feature p. 131; Slide-Aspects p. 77 : Website-AFI.

Home Video: DVD.