Theban Plays: Oedipus the King poster
Movie1986111 minReleased

Theban Plays: Oedipus the King

Plagues are ravaging Thebes, and the blind fortune-teller Tieresias tells Oedipus, the King, that the gods are unhappy. The murder of the former king has gone unavenged, and Oedipus sets out to find the killer.

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BBC
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111 min
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Michael Pennington

Oedipus Rex

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Claire Bloom

Jocasta

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John Gielgud

Tieresias

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John Shrapnel

Creon

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Cyril Cusack

Priest

#6

Michael Byrne

Chorus

#7

Ernest Clark

Chorus

#8

David Collings

Chorus

#9

Donald Eccles

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Robert Eddison

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Clifford Rose

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#12

Alan Rowe

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Sophocles

Sophocles

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Writing

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Don Taylor

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Jane Hudson

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Louis Marks

Louis Marks

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David Myerscough-Jones

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DT

Don Taylor

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Derek Bourgeois

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David Hambelton

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