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The Dresser

What happens backstage is always true drama. And often pure comedy.

1983 · PG · 1h 58m

Directed by Peter Yates

6.8

TMDB audience score
84 votes, out of 10

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Synopsis

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.

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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

  • Ann Way
    Miss White

  • John Sharp
    Mr. Bottomley

  • Kathy Staff
    Bombazine Woman