1979-02-25
166 mins
The Plot
Henry is a proud monarch who flies in the face of the church in seeking to divorce Queen Katherine and marry Anne Bullen. As cardinal Wolsey, the powerful Lord Chancellor of England, attempts to bend Rome to the King's wishes, the court reverbates with political intrigue and accusations of treachery.
Cast and Crew
Tony Church
Prologue
John Stride
Henry VIII
Julian Glover
Duke of Buckingham
Jeremy Kemp
Duke of Norfolk
David Rintoul
Lord Abergavenny
Timothy West
Cardinal Wolsey
John Rowe
Cromwell
Lewis Flander
Duke of Suffolk
Alan Leith
Sergeant-at-Arms
Claire Bloom
Katharine of Aragon
John Bailey
Griffith / Gentleman Usher
David Troughton
A Surveyor
John Nettleton
Lord Chamberlain
Charles Lloyd Pack
Lord Sandys
Nigel Lambert
Sir Thomas Lovell
Barbara Kellerman
Anne Bullen
Adam Bareham
Sir Henry Guildford
Jeffrey Daunton
A Servant
John Cater
1st Gentleman
Roger Lloyd Pack
2nd Gentleman
Jack McKenzie
Sir Nicholas Vaux
Michael Poole
Cardinal Campeius
Peter Vaughan
Gardiner, Bishop of Winchester
Sylvia Coleridge
Old Lady, Anne Bullen's Friend
Michael Gaunt
A Crier
Ronald Pickup
Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury
David Dodimead
Bishop of Lincoln
Emma Kirkby
Singer
Sally Home
Patience
Oliver Cotton
Earl of Surrey
Michael Walker
A Messenger
John Rhys-Davies
Capucius, Ambassador from Emperor Charles V
Timothy Barker
Page to Gardiner
Brian Osborne
Door-Keeper of the Council Chamber
Jack May
Lord Chancellor
