The Dresser (1983)
What happens backstage is always true drama. And often pure comedy.
118 min
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.
- Release date
- March 23, 1984
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom, Australia
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Cast
- Albert Finney as Sir
- Tom Courtenay as Norman
- Edward Fox as Oxenby
- Zena Walker as Her Ladyship
- Eileen Atkins as Madge
- Michael Gough as Frank Carrington
- Cathryn Harrison as Irene
- Betty Marsden as Violet Manning
- Sheila Reid as Lydia Gibson
- Lockwood West as Geoffrey Thornton
- Llewellyn Rees as Horace Brown
- Anne Mannion as Beryl
- Kevin Stoney as C. Rivers Lane
- Ann Way as Miss White
- John Sharp as Mr. Bottomley
- Kathy Staff as Bombazine Woman
- Roger Avon as Charles
- Joe Belcher as Arthur
- Paul Luty as Stallkeeper
- Ralph G. Morse as Man at Station (uncredited)
Crew
- Peter Yates · Director
- Ronald Harwood · Writer
- Peter Yates · Producer
- James Horner · Composer
- Kelvin Pike · Cinematographer
- Ray Lovejoy · Editor
- Noel Davis · Casting director
- Stephen B. Grimes · Production designer