The Dresser

The Dresser (2024)

2024

Drama

6.6 from 10 with total 62 votes

1983-12-06

118 minutes

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.

Albert Finney character Sir

Tom Courtenay character Norman

Edward Fox character Oxenby

Zena Walker character Her Ladyship

Eileen Atkins character Madge

Michael Gough character Frank Carrington

Cathryn Harrison character Irene

Betty Marsden character Violet Manning

Sheila Reid character Lydia Gibson

Lockwood West character Geoffrey Thornton

Donald Eccles character Mr. Godstone

Llewellyn Rees character Horace Brown

Guy Manning character Benton

Anne Blackman character Beryl

Kevin Stoney character C. Rivers Lane

Ann Way character Miss White

John Sharp character Mr. Bottomley

Kathy Staff character Bombazine Woman

Roger Avon character Charles

Christopher Irvin character Evelyn the Airman

Stuart Richman character Evelyn's Friend

Sandra Gough character Actress on Station

Joe Belcher character Arthur

Johnny Maxfield character Electrician

Paul Luty character Stallkeeper

Lori Wells character Barmaid

Alan Starkey character Train Guard

Ralph G. Morse character Man at Station (uncredited)