On screen
Cast
78 credited performers
Keith Michell
Henry VIII of England
Anthony Quayle
Narrator
Patrick Troughton
Duke of Norfolk
Bernard Hepton
Archbishop Thomas Cranmer
Basil Dignam
Bishop Gardiner
Sheila Burrell
Lady Rochford
Wolfe Morris
Thomas Cromwell
Angela Pleasence
Catherine Howard
Dorothy Tutin
Anne Boleyn
Howard Goorney
Will Somers
John Ronane
Thomas Seymour
Anne Stallybrass
Jane Seymour
Edward Atienza
Eustache Chapuys
Alison Frazer
Princess Mary
Patrick Godfrey
Sir Thomas Wriothesley
Daniel Moynihan
Lord Hertford Edward Seymour
Rosalie Crutchley
Catherine Parr
Peter Cellier
Sir Christopher Hales
Simon Prebble
Francis Dereham
Annette Crosbie
Catherine of Aragon
Mollie Sugden
Lotte
Jo Kendall
Anne Stanhope
Ralph Bates
Thomas Culpepper
Hilary Mason
Lady Boleyn
Catherine Lacey
Dowager Duchess of Norfolk
John Woodnutt
Henry VII
Robert James
Robert Barnes
Peter Stephens
Don Gutierre Gómez de Fuensalida
Elizabeth Bell
Anne Askew
Ronald Adam
Cardinal Campeggio
Elvi Hale
Anne of Cleves
John Baskcomb
Cardinal Wolsey
Peter Reeves
Philip of Hesse
Peter Bennett
Nobleman
Martin Ratcliffe
Prince Arthur
Ken Wynne
Dr. de Puebla
Sally Travers
Dona Elvira Manuel
Donald Bisset
Earl of Surrey
Margaret Ford
Maria de Salinas
Joyce Mandre
Francesca de Carceres
Robert Hartley
Bishop Fox
Will Leighton
Tutor
Valentine Palmer
Lord Willoughby
Ina De La Haye
Inez de Venegas
Verina Greenlaw
Princess Mary
Raymond Adamson
Duke of Suffolk
Richard Burnett
Usher
Charles Workman
Archbishop Warham
Geoffrey Lewis
Bishop Fisher
Michael Osborne
Mark Smeaton
Jonathan Newth
George, Viscount Rochford
Christopher Hancock
Sir Henry Norreys
Christopher Beeching
The Earl of Surrey
Robert Cawdron
Sir William Kingston
Patricia Heneghan
Lady Kingston
Arnold Peters
Armourer
Gillian Bailey
Dorothy Seymour
Dorothy Black
Lady Margaret Seymour
Howard Lang
Sir John Seymour
William Abney
Sir Frances Bryan
Louis Haslar
Sir Nicholas Carew
Marion Mathie
Lady Exeter
James Mellor
Holbein
Carol MacReady
Amalie
William Maxwell
Duke Wilhelm of Cleves
David Butler
Christopher Mont
Norman Atkyns
Henry's Gentleman
Michael Cullen
Servant
Jody Schaller
Princess Elizabeth
Stephanie Lacey
Lady Frances
Melanie Ackland
Lady Margaret
Julia Cornelius
Anne Carey
John Richmond
Surgeon
Sue Bishop
Lady-in-Waiting
Alberto Colzi
Ambassador
Bill Riley
Captain Stanton
Karen Ford
Lady Lane
Jim Kennedy
Anthony Knevet