Jones and Vanessa Redgrave did Much Ado as B&B when they were 82 and 75 years old. I read that it was bad, but the world must be peopled (and no, they apparently did not cut that line).
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2013/sep/20/much-ado-about-nothing-review-rylance
The Sher version of Lear is from the RSC, it's available on a few different streaming services. I haven't seen all the filmed RSC stuff but they've done the best versions I've seen of a number of the plays: Richard II, the Henry IV's, Lear, Love's Labour's Lost, Much Ado (which they released under the gimmicky title Love's Labour's Won). They have a few duds though: their Merchant of Venice is very ill conceived and their Tempest is so drowned in FX and elaborate makeup that it doesn't really come to life.
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