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Henry VIII (1979)
Directed by Kevin Billington
History, Drama, TV Movie · 2h 46m
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
T
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
J
John Rowe
Cromwell
L
Lewis Flander
Duke of Suffolk
Alan Leith
Sergeant-at-Arms
Claire Bloom
Katharine of Aragon
John Bailey
Griffith / Gentleman Usher
David Troughton
A Surveyor
Crew
- Director
- Kevin Billington
- Original Music Composer
- James Tyler
- Editor
- Malcolm Banthorpe, Howard Dell
- Producer
- Cedric Messina
Details
- Release date
- 1979-02-25
- Runtime
- 2h 46m
- Genres
- History, Drama, TV Movie
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United Kingdom
- Production
- BBC, Time-Life Television Productions