The Dresser
What happens backstage is always true drama. And often pure comedy.
6.8
83 votes
1983
1h 58m
Drama
Overview
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.
Directed by Peter Yates
Top 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 ThorntonD
Donald Eccles
Mr. Godstone
Llewellyn Rees
Horace BrownG
Guy Manning
BentonA
Anne Blackman
Beryl
Kevin Stoney
C. Rivers LaneA
Ann Way
Miss WhiteJ
John Sharp
Mr. Bottomley
Kathy Staff
Bombazine Woman
Roger Avon
CharlesC
Christopher Irvin
Evelyn the AirmanDetails
Status
Released
Release date
December 6, 1983
Budget
—
Revenue
—
Language
English
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