The Dresser
What happens backstage is always true drama. And often pure comedy.
12/6/1983
Imdb: tt0085461
Tmdb: 42122
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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
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
Roger Avon
Charles
Christopher Irvin
Evelyn the Airman
Stuart Richman
Evelyn's Friend
Sandra Gough
Actress on Station
Joe Belcher
Arthur
Johnny Maxfield
Electrician
Paul Luty
Stallkeeper
Lori Wells
Barmaid
Alan Starkey
Train Guard
Ralph G. Morse
Man at Station (uncredited)
Monster in a Box
The Maids of Wilko
The Blob
The Right Stuff
Gremlins
12 Angry Men
Scarface
GoodFellas
Alien
Se7en
The Fly
Raging Bull
Jurassic Park
The Green Mile
Star Wars
Oldboy
Killers of the Flower Moon
The Godfather
The Terminator
Titanic
Show Me Love
Tommy Trips
Please Baby Please
The End of the Night
Fragments sur la grâce
Maybe... Maybe Not
Dead Poets Society
The Godfather Part III
Ghost
I Don't Care
Sparrow
The Geographer Drank His Globe Away
Cadaver
Last Call in the Dog House
The School of Wives
A Star Is Born
Midnight Cowboy
An Eye for an Eye
Kill or Be Killed
Working Girl
alcoholism
backstage
lgbt
post world war ii
make up
drunkenness
oscar-nominated