The Dresser
“What happens backstage is always true drama. And often pure comedy.”
1983•PG•1h 58m•6.8•Released
Drama
In a touring Shakespearean theater group, a backstage hand - the dresser - is devoted to the brilliant but tyrannical head of the company. He struggles to support the deteriorating star as the company struggles to carry on during the London Blitz. The pathos of his backstage efforts rival the pathos in the story of Lear and the Fool that is being presented on-stage, as the situation comes to a crisis.
Director
Peter Yates
Writer
Ronald Harwood
Languages
English
Studio
Columbia Pictures
Cast
Albert Finney
Sir
Tom Courtenay
Norman
Edward Fox
Oxenby
Zena Walker
Her Ladyship
Eileen Atkins
Madge
Michael Gough
Frank Carrington
Cathryn Harrison
Irene
Betty Marsden
Violet Manning
Sheila Reid
Lydia Gibson
Lockwood West
Geoffrey Thornton
Donald Eccles
Mr. Godstone
Llewellyn Rees
Horace Brown
Guy Manning
Benton
Anne Blackman
Beryl
Kevin Stoney
C. Rivers Lane
Production
Company
Columbia Pictures
Producer
Ronald Harwood
Producer
Peter Yates
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