On screen
Cast
428 credited performers
Geoffrey Matthews
Ealdred, Archbishop of York
Mark Donaldson
William I
Daniel Brian
Wilfred
Doug Wootton
The City Waites
Alfred Lynch
King James I
Geoffrey Beevers
(voice)
Bernard Hepton
Oliver Cromwell
Jeremy Kemp
Lucius
Bernard Archard
Felix
Frederick Jaeger
Caradoc
Christopher Reich
Cynhafal
William Marlowe
Adhmin
Paul Darrow
Marcellus
Claire Davenport
Boudicca
Joan Rhodes
Cartimandua
Victor Lucas
Epatticus
Michael Brennan
Brigantian Chieftan
John Atkinson
Chief Druid
Ryan Davies
Chief Bard
Michelle Scott
Refugee Woman
Richard Johnson
Tiberius Claudius
Arthur Lowe
Epillicus
Sheila Brennan
Julia
Donald Gee
Rufus
Paul Copley
Viventius
William Morgan Sheppard
Sabinianus
Ian Fairbairn
Justinianus
John Sharp
Valerius
David Prowse
Hnaudifida
Lewis Fiander
Felicio
Helen Dorward
Placida
Brian Deacon
Flavius
Karan David
Verecunda
Chris Dillinger
Lucco
Jessica Swift
Regina
Michael Da Costa
Slave Seller
Roland Curram
Slave Buyer
Leo McKern
King Penda
Robert Hardy
King Oswy
Eric Lander
The General
Esmond Knight
Penda's Father
Edward Wilson
Benet
Jim Norton
Cuthbert
Denys Hawthorne
The Confessor
Michael Nightingale
The Abbot
Robert East
Edwin
John Golightly
Edwin's Thegn
Alex Scott
Paulinus
Oliver Maguire
Aidan
Luke Batchelor
Young Bede
Philip Jackson
Boatman
David Robb
Penda's Thegn
George Romanov
Interpreter
Harry Webster
Saxon Priest
Alan Howard
King Alfred
Anna Massey
Queen Ealhswith
Brian Blessed
Guthrum
Evin Crowley
Fat Legs
Daphne Heard
Old Woman
Patrick Stewart
Wulfric
William Simons
Hair Face
John Franklyn-Robbins
Olaf
Kevin Stoney
Odda
Geoffrey Hinsliff
Saxon Soldier
Colin Starkey
Saxon Soldier
Sherrie Hewson
Girl
Peter Clough
Monk
John Wood
Edward the Confessor
Norman Rodway
Earl Godwin
Dennis Waterman
King Harold II
Robert Langdon Lloyd
Tostig
Jan Harvey
Edith
Richard Dennis
Sweyn
Stephen Bent
Gyrth
Anthony Collin
Stigand, Bishop of Winchester
Richard Pescud
Robert, Archbishop of Canterbury
Kevin Flood
Ulf
Keith Campbell
Astrologer
Joe Gladwin
Blind Man
David Charkham
Thane
Christopher Banks
Clerk
Roy Evans
Churl
Angela Pleasence
Jorild
Vivian Pickles
Ingirith
Rosalie Crutchley
Hildis
Rachel Thomas
Edda
Paul Hardwick
Ofram
Tim Preece
Thryth
George Waring
Eric
Patrick Connor
Osmund
John Livesey
Ednoth
Clyde Pollitt
Ragge
Chris Tranchell
Breme
Neville Barber
Geoffrey de Keynes
Michael McStay
Ralf
Colin Blakely
Character not listed
Julian Glover
Richard de Anstey
Clive Revill
King Henry II
Sara Kestelman
Maud de Anstey
Elizabeth Sellars
Albrida
Fiona Walker
Mabelle
Sydney Tafler
Haskelot
Julian Curry
Hubert
John Barrett
John Freeman
Peter Howell
Samson
Bette Bourne
Nicholas
Jon Laurimore
Richard de Lucy
Davyd Harries
Terric Bolloc
Jimmy Gardner
The Priest
William Bond
Clerk
Dinsdale Landen
William the Ewerer
Kenneth Griffith
King John
Patrick Troughton
Hainault
David Kernan
Blondel
Ronald Lacey
Peter of Pomfret
Terry Wale
Louis the Bathman
Clinton Greyn
Richard Lionheart
Roger Hammond
Baron
John Hughes
Roland
Michael Davis
Fleance
Paul Humpoletz
Mayor
David Bailie
Bertram
Colin Edwynn
Bernard
Paul Shelley
Norman man-at-arms
Murphy Grumbar
English man-at-arms
Noel Coleman
Master Marshall
Diana Berriman
Margaret
Janet Henfrey
Charlotte
Kenton Moore
Head Constable
Edward Burnham
Priest
Gene Foad
Servant
Wendy Wax
Robert
Crispin Thomas
Phillip
Guy Ransom
Assistant Constable
Derek Godfrey
King Henry III
Daniel Massey
Simon de Montfort
Helen Lindsay
Eleanor de Montfort
Richard O'Callaghan
Ranulf
Christopher Benjamin
Peter
David Dundas
Prince Edward
John Gill
Christopher
Brian Vaughan
Friar
Lois Daine
Gunnild
Glynn Edwards
Curly
James Cossins
William
Shirley Cain
Alice
Frederick Treves
Gloucester
Vernon Dobtcheff
De Reynes
Norman Scace
Archbishop
Charles West
Singer
Brian Cox
William Wallace
Stephen Murray
King Edward I
Fulton Mackay
Bishop Wishart
Jack Watson
Jop
Ralph Truman
Earl of Surrey
John Cairney
Steward of Scotland
Tom Watson
Hob
John Dunn-Hill
Tam
Leon Sinden
Hugh de Cressingham
Trader Faulkner
Sir Peter Malory
Jack Galloway
Sir Andrew of Moray
Lucy Appleby
Queen Margaret
Malcolm Hayes
Lennox
Stuart McGugan
Auchinlech
Michael McKevitt
Mentieth
James Cosmo
Robert Bruce
Robert Tayman
Percy
Denis McCarthy
William de Ormesby
Stuart Mungall
John Comyn
Jack McKenzie
Lord March
John Young
Monk
Archie Fisher
Ballad Singer
Michael Jayston
Henry, Bishop of Norwich
David Daker
John Bradwater
Gabrielle Lloyd
Alice Bradwater
John Stratton
The Prior
Gordon Gostelow
The Friar
Paul Gregory
Roger de Harleston
John Duttine
Richard Murlyn
Peter Geddis
Robert
David Neal
Edward
Anna Wing
Margaret
Michael Golden
Baker
Geoffrey Staines
Mayor
Bernadette Windsor
Matilda
Winifred Sabine
Winifred
Brian Grellis
Simon
Tom Durham
Monk
Hilary Sesta
Bertha
Richard Willis
Boy
Gemma Jones
Margaret Paston
Tom Chadbon
John Paston
Tony Steedman
William Paston
June Brown
Agnes Paston
Terrence Hardiman
Richard Calle
Valerie Holliman
Margery Paston
Julian Somers
John Mauteby
Marcelle Samett
Margaret Mauteby
Denis Lill
Lord Moleyns
Donald Morley
Judge Yelverton
John Bott
Sir John Fastolfe
John Normington
Friar Brackley
Michael Sheard
Archbishop
Anthony Langdon
Turnkey
Marc Neighbour
Walter Paston
Neil Morley
Edmund Paston
Philip Anthony
Sir Thomas Howes
Preston Lockwood
Doctor
Martin Heller
Father Gloys
Barrie Gosney
Court Officer
Roy Pattison
Ned Arkwell
Robert Lang
Hugh Goodrest
T. P. McKenna
Dr Layton
Carleton Hobbs
Abbot William
Elizabeth Bell
Ann Goodrest
Derek Newark
Sir John Dudley
George Innes
Thomas
Martin Neil
Jack
John Woodnutt
Brother Martin
Douglas Milvain
Brother Francis
Peter Sproule
Brother Samson
Frederick Hall
Brother Paul
John Turner
Sir Walter Raleigh
Gareth Thomas
Laurence Kemys
John Nettleton
Sir Francis Bacon
Hugh Dickson
Sir Robert Cecil
Peter Halliday
Sir George Carew
Richard Morant
George Villiers
Graham Armitage
Lord Cobham
Basil Dignam
Lord Henry Howard
Tony Osoba
Leonard
Ann Morrish
Lady Elizabeth
Robert Gillespie
Sir William Wade
Noel Johnson
Chief Justice Popham
Neville Jason
Count Gondomar
Frank Duncan
Sir James Hay
Steven Scott
Harry, the Indian
Hugh Janes
Wat Raleigh
Beed Steven
Young Wat
Kevin Brennan
Sailor
Robert Keegan
William Brewster
Peter Bourke
Wrastle Brewster
Cherith Mellor
Mary Brewster
Stephen Bill
Love Brewster
Bruce Bould
William Bradford
John Tordoff
John Robinson
Keith Smith
Stephen Hopkins
Joby Blanshard
Captain Jones
Barry Linehan
Thomas Weston
Ray Mort
Church Commissioner
Nancy Nevinson
Anna Guggenhoff
Tina Heath
Gretl
Harold Innocent
Archbishiop Bancroft
Sam Avent
Adventurer
Jimmy Mac
Adventurer
Paul Sadler
Brewster child
Philip Sadler
Brewster child
Patsy Kensit
Brewster child
Rebecca Bridge
Brewster child
Ian Hendry
William Davenant
Clive Francis
John Loxley
Polly James
Titania
Annette Crosbie
Elizabeth Rush
Neil McCarthy
Thomas Rush
Guy Rolfe
Earl of Strafford
Patrick Barr
Sir Jacob Astley
JoAnna Lloyd
Alice Rush
Peter Pratt
Archbishop Laud
Steve Emerson
Labourer
Paul Ambrose
Charles, Prince of Wales
Jean Sadgrove
Queen Henrietta Maria
Ray Roberts
Italian Priest
Charles Kay
Sir Thomas Fairfax
John Woodvine
Colonel John Hewson
Tony Selby
John Church
Jack Shepherd
Cornet Henry Denne
Robin Ellis
Major White
Raymond Adamson
Colonel Adrian Scroope
Peter Clay
Colonel Thomas Harrison
John Malcolm
Colonel John Okey
Oliver Smith
Trooper John Cantloe
Graham Faulkner
Trooper John Watkinson
Greg Hicks
QM Miles Sindercombe
John White
Corporal Thomas Perkins
Freddy Marks
Trooper Anthony Sedley
Lance Aston
Trooper Thomas Atkins
Andrew McCulloch
Trooper William Doegood
Tom Marshall
Trooper John Bishop
Oliver Cotton
Trooper John Roper
Peter Armitage
Trooper John Steel
Christopher Cregan
Trooper Matthew Brown
Michael Kitchen
John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester
Denis Quilley
King Charles II
Isabel Dean
Anne, Lady Rochester
Diana Rayworth
Barbara, Countess of Castlemaine
Rhys McConnochie
Reverend Robert Parsons
Susan Richards
Nan Gamble
Yvonne Edgell
Deborah Gedge
Sheila Ruskin
Frances
Kate Nicholls
Olivia
Henry Woolf
Mr Chiffinch
Colin Jeavons
The Honorable Robert Boyle
John Bryans
Sir Wiliam Petty
John McKelvey
Prince Rupert
Peter Needham
John Evelyn
Arthur Cox
John Wallis
David Roper
Christopher Wren
Peter Benson
Robert Hooke, MA
Maurice Colbourne
Dr Gedge
Tony Haygarth
Mr Boghurst
Sam Kydd
George Campsie
Sheila Manahan
Alice Campsie
William Hamilton
Henry Campsie
Jean Taylor Smith
Nellie Falls
George Sewell
Colonel Michelburn
Miles Anderson
Rev Dr Walker
Wesley Murphy
Captain Thomas Ashe
Patrick McAlinney
Mayor
Graham Ashley
Alderman Tomkins
Alastair Hunter
Alderman Irwin
Erik Chitty
Dr Ezekiel Hopkins
Stanley McGeagh
Harry Corlett
Allan McClelland
Jack Quayle
Phyllis MacMahon
Mrs Cunyngham
Paddy Joyce
Lazarian
Oliver Dunbar
Hopkins' Secretary
Tom Conti
Tom Mackenzie
Rita Webb
Mrs Trundle
Arthur Mullard
Jack Plaster
James Mellor
Charlie Scrape
Philip Stone
Barnaby Stickle
Wolfe Morris
Robert Walpole
Trevor Martin
Mr Baxter
Gretchen Franklin
Mrs Baxter
Tina Martin
Dolly
Deirdre Costello
Virgin Maggie
Arthur Hewlett
Reverend Cheshire
Kenneth Benda
Lord Grabble
Bill Stewart
John Gudgeon
Katie Flower
Lucy Gudgeon
Kenneth Colley
Ancient Beau
John Rapley
George I
Roger Lloyd Pack
Thug
Chris Gannon
Thug
Kenneth Waller
Citizen
Patrick Allen
Donald MacAmnay
Ralph Michael
MacGregor
Malcolm Rennie
MacDonnell
Craig McFarlane
Jamie MacAmnay
Charlie Stewart
Grandfather MacAmnay
Peter Mackriel
Pickpocket
Lawrence Douglas
Angus MacAmnay
Wendy Gifford
Katherine MacAmnay
Michael Ripper
Captain Smythe
Anthony Boden
Captain Johnson
Erin Geraghty
Margaret MacAmnay
Katherine Stark
Mrs MacDonnell
Ella Milne
Mrs Chisholme
Ian Charleson
John Ross
Earl Green
Indian
Derek Francis
Thomas Partridge
Elvi Hale
Anna Partridge
Geoffrey Palmer
Samuel Partridge
Jeremy Irons
Samuel Ross
Thomas Heathcote
Stephen Cleverley
Lynn Dearth
Betty
Jennie Goossens
Sarah Partridge
Richard Beaumont
Peter
Karen Corti
Nanay
Julian Fellowes
Redcoat
Rodney Bewes
Bob Pott
Christopher Gable
Jack Cleveland
Barbara Lott
Lady Cleveland
Michael Barrington
General Barker
John Cater
Warren Hastings
Renu Setna
Nobkissen
Margery Withers
Mrs Johnson
Kenneth Watson
John MacPherson
Minoo Golvala
Gopal
Declan Mulholland
Augustus Hicky
Jan Francis
Amelia Wrangham
Darien Angadi
Asof-ud-Daulah
Myles Hoyle
Richard Sykes
Nicholas Young
Phineas Hall
Jamila Massey
Bahu Begum
Soltan Lalani
Jawar
Geoffrey Bayldon
Character not listed
Edward Fox
Aaron Graham
Charles Gray
Duke of Portland
Alan Lake
Valentine Joyce
Nigel Stock
Earl Howe
Philip Madoc
Williams
John Justin
Vice-Admiral Buckner
Michael Culver
Earl Spencer
John Forgeham
John Morice
Ian Hogg
Richard Parker
Jacqueline Pearce
Mrs Parker
Lisa Harrow
Mrs Graham
Frank Wylie
Evan Nepean
Penny Irving
Red Maggie
Evie Garratt
Marjory
Ray Barrett
Leo Hennessey
Barry Jackson
George Loveless
Nickolas Grace
James Loveless
Maryann Turner
Betsy Loveless
Sally Mates
Sarah Loveless
Ian Clegg
Augustus Lamb
Guy Deghy
William de Gillern
Barbara Hickmott
Harriet Hammett
John Gulliver
James Hammett
John Blain
Thomas Standfield
Thomas Ellice
John Standfield
Raymond Mason
Mr Newman
Norman Tyrrell
Joseph Hume
David King
King William IV
Jeanne Starbuck
Queen Adelaide
Audrey Leybourne
Dinniah Standfield
Alan Judd
Daniel O'Connell
Keith Jayne
Georgie
Bryan Marshall
James Ings
Roland Culver
Lord Sidmouth
Geoffrey Toone
Lord Castlereagh
Peter Bowles
Thistlewood
Heather Page
Celia
David Battley
Edwards
Denis Cleary
Smithers
Donald Webster
Tidd
Terence Conoley
Hunt