1983
6.7 (71 votes)
1h 58m
Genres
Drama
Production Companies
Columbia Pictures
The Dresser
What happens backstage is always true drama. And often pure comedy.
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.
Key Crew
Director: Peter Yates
Screenplay: Ronald Harwood
Director of Photography: Kelvin Pike
Producer: Peter Yates, Ronald Harwood
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
