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)
Gremlins
The Maids of Wilko
Scarface
Green Book
Parasite
Lady Bird
A Quiet Place
Marriage Story
Arrival
The Silence of the Lambs
Little Women
Joker
They Live
Sound of Metal
A Star Is Born
Midsommar
Whiplash
It
All of Us Strangers
Creep
Dogfriend
I Am Curious Gay
In Love Again
Walk a Crooked Path
Darker Than Midnight
Dita Saxová
The Verdict
Company
Hud
The New Twenty
In Tranzit
achilles and patroclus
Mapplethorpe
Get Real
The Doors
28 Days
Factotum
Manong Konstru
Hair
The Circle
alcoholism
backstage
lgbt
post world war ii
make up
drunkenness