166 minutes
2/25/1979
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.
Tony Church
as Prologue
John Stride
as Henry VIII
Julian Glover
as Duke of Buckingham
Jeremy Kemp
as Duke of Norfolk
David Rintoul
as Lord Abergavenny
Timothy West
as Cardinal Wolsey
John Rowe
as Cromwell
Lewis Flander
as Duke of Suffolk
Alan Leith
as Sergeant-at-Arms
Claire Bloom
as Katharine of Aragon
John Bailey
as Griffith / Gentleman Usher
David Troughton
as A Surveyor
John Nettleton
as Lord Chamberlain
Charles Lloyd Pack
as Lord Sandys
Nigel Lambert
as Sir Thomas Lovell
Barbara Kellerman
as Anne Bullen
Adam Bareham
as Sir Henry Guildford
Jeffrey Daunton
as A Servant
John Cater
as 1st Gentleman
Roger Lloyd Pack
as 2nd Gentleman
Jack McKenzie
as Sir Nicholas Vaux
Michael Poole
as Cardinal Campeius
Peter Vaughan
as Gardiner, Bishop of Winchester
Sylvia Coleridge
as Old Lady, Anne Bullen's Friend
Michael Gaunt
as A Crier
Ronald Pickup
as Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury
David Dodimead
as Bishop of Lincoln
Emma Kirkby
as Singer
Sally Home
as Patience
Oliver Cotton
as Earl of Surrey
Michael Walker
as A Messenger
John Rhys-Davies
as Capucius, Ambassador from Emperor Charles V
Timothy Barker
as Page to Gardiner
Brian Osborne
as Door-Keeper of the Council Chamber
John Rogan
as Dr. Butts
Jack May
as Lord Chancellor