A new production of the Shakespearean tragedy, starring and co-directed by Branagh, will play 50 performances in New York.

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play: Christopher Plummer was nominated but did not win.

Laurence Olivier is the consummate King Lear, monarch of 9th-century Britain, in this handsomely staged version of Shakespeare's bloody tragedy. Gloucester: Leo McKern. Goneril: Dorothy Tutin.

EXCLUSIVE: The Veterans has boarded sales for an AFM launch on Bernard Rose's Shakespeare adaptation Lear Rex, starring Al ...