Henry VIII (1979)

Director: Kevin Billington

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

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