On screen
Cast
99 credited performers
Rowan Atkinson
Edmund, Duke of Edinburgh
Tony Robinson
Private S. Baldrick
Tim McInnerny
Lord Percy
Hugh Laurie
The Prince Regent
Stephen Fry
General Sir Anthony Cecil Hogmanay Melchett
Miranda Richardson
Nurse Mary
Brian Blessed
King Richard IV
Elspet Gray
The Queen
Robert East
Harry Prince of Wales
Patsy Byrne
Nursie
Helen Atkinson-Wood
Mrs. Miggins
Tony Aitken
Mad Beggar
Patrick Allen
The Hawk
Stephen Frost
Soft, a Guard
Rik Mayall
Mad Gerald
Gabrielle Glaister
Kate / Bob
Bill Wallis
Gaoler Ploppy
Lee Cornes
Shelley
David Nunn
Messenger
Roy Evans
Abel, a Peasant
Bert Parnaby
Cain, a Peasant
Miriam Margolyes
Infanta Maria Escalosa of Spain
Barbara Miller
Regan
Patrick Duncan
Officer, an Officer
Mark Arden
Guard 1
Perry Benson
Daft Ned, a Peasant
Forbes Collins
Dopey Jack, a Peasant
Frank Finlay
The Witchsmeller Pursuivant
Patrick Malahide
Guy of Glastonbury
Alex Norton
McAngus, Duke of Argyll
Paul Brooke
Friar Bellows
Peter Cook
Richard III
Jim Broadbent
Don Speekingleesh, an Interpreter
Ron Cook
Sean, the Irish
Tom Baker
Captain Rum
Ronald Lacey
Bishop of Bath & Wells
Simon Jones
Sir Walter Raleigh
Lesley Nicol
Mrs. Pants
Robbie Coltrane
Dr. Samuel Johnson
Nigel Planer
Lord Smedley
Hugh Paddick
Keanrick
Kenneth Connor
Mossup
Ben Elton
Anarchist
Warren Clarke
Mr. Hardwood
Barbara Horne
Sally Cheapside
Roger Avon
The Duke of Cheapside
Jeremy Hardy
Corporal Perkins
Jeremy Gittins
Private Tipplewick
Adrian Edmondson
Baron von Richtoven
Hugo Blick
Lieutenant von Gerhardt
Geoffrey Palmer
Field Marshal Haig
John Grillo
Dr. Leech
Edward Jewesbury
Kate's Father
Sadie Shimmin
Young Crone
Holly De Jong
Lady Farrow
Linda Polan
Mrs. Ploppy
Barry Craine
Mr. Pants
Cassie Stuart
Molly
John Pierce Jones
Arthur the Sailor
Philip Pope
Leonardo Acropolis
Piers Ibbotson
Messenger
Roger Blake
Geoffrey Piddle
William Hootkins
Monk
Daniel Thorndike
Lord Whiteadder
Max Harvey
Torturer
Vincent Hanna
Mr. Vincent Hanna
Denis Lill
Sir Talbot Buxomly
Simon Osborne
Pitt the Younger
Dominic Martelli
Pitt the Even Younger
Geoffrey McGivern
Ivor Biggun
Steve Steen
Byron
Chris Barrie
Ambassador, a fearsome revolutionary
Gertan Klauber
King George III
Paul Mark Elliott
Private Robinson
Peter Benson
Henry VII
Kathleen St John
Goneril
Gretchen Franklin
Cordelia
Angus Deayton
Jumping Jew of Jerusalem
Joolia Cappleman
Celia, Countess of Cheltenham
Martin Clarke
Sir Dominick Prique of Stratford
Arthur Hewlett
Godfrey, Archbishop of Canterbury / William, Bishop of London
Paul McDowell
Herbert, Archbishop of Canterbury
Carolyn Colquhoun
Sister Sara
Joyce Grant
Mother Superior
David Delve
Sir George de Boeuf
Leslie Sands
Lord Graveney
Jane Freeman
Mrs. Applebottom
Howard Lew Lewis
Mr. Applebottom
John Rapley
Rev. Lloyd
Stephen Tate
Lord Chiswick
Richard Murdoch
Ross, a Lord
Valentine Dyall
Angus, a Lord
Peter Schofield
Fife, a Lord
John Hallam
Sir Wilfred Death
Roger Sloman
Three Fingered Pete
John Barrard
Retired Morris Dancer
Des Webb
Person of Unrestricted Growth
John Carlisle
Murdered Lord
William Russell
The Duke of Winchester