
Adapted from the BBC2 serial The Six Wives of Henry VIII. 1547, King Henry VIII's life has taken a turn for the worse and he is forced to look back over his life and the many loves which had brought him his three children, only one of which was the desired male heir to secure the Tudor dynasty.
Cast

Keith Michell
Henry VIII

Donald Pleasence
Thomas Cromwell

Charlotte Rampling
Anne Boleyn

Jane Asher
Jane Seymour

Brian Blessed
Suffolk

Michael Gough
Norfolk

Barbara Leigh-Hunt
Catherine Parr
Jenny Bos
Anne of Cleves

Lynne Frederick
Catherine Howard

Frances Cuka
Katherine of Aragon

Michael Goodliffe
Thomas More

Bernard Hepton
Cranmer

Garfield Morgan
Gardiner
John Bryans
Wolsey

Peter Madden
Fisher

Michael Byrne
Edward Seymour
Michael Godfrey
Sir Ralph Ellerker

Robin Sachs
Thomas Culpeper
Nicholas Amer
Chapuys

Clive Merrison
Weston

David Bailie
Norris

Damien Thomas
Smeaton

Richard Warner
Warham

John Bennett
Wriothesley
Sarah Long
Mary
Peter Clay
Thomas Seymour

Basil Clarke
Abbot
Alan Rowe
French Ambassador
Mark York
Brereton
Margaret Ward
Lady Rochford
Colin Rix
Bowes

Imogen Claire
Maria de Salinas
Ian Calvin
(uncredited)
Crew

Waris Hussein
Director
Ian Thorne
Screenplay
John Bloom
Editor

Peter Suschitzky
Director of Photography
Roy Baird
Producer
Mark Shivas
Producer
Roy Stannard
Production Design
Irene Lamb
Casting
John Bloomfield
Costume Design
Gladys Leakey
Hairdresser
Pam Meager
Makeup Designer
Eric Allwright
Makeup Artist
Philip Leakey
Makeup Artist
Brian Simmons
Sound Recordist
David Munrow
Original Music Composer
George Dean
Painter
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