The Six Wives of Henry VIII

Maurice Cowan

United Kingdom

English

1

6

6 × 90 minutes

BBC 2

1 January (1970-01-01) –
5 February 1970 (1970-02-05)

as Henry VIII[2]

Keith Michell

as Thomas Cromwell[3]

Wolfe Morris

as Catherine of Aragon[2]

Annette Crosbie

as Anne Boleyn[3]

Dorothy Tutin

as Jane Seymour[4]

Anne Stallybrass

as Anne of Cleves[5]

Elvi Hale

as Catherine Howard[6]

Angela Pleasance

as Catherine Parr[7]

Rosalie Crutchley

as the Duke of Norfolk[2]

Patrick Troughton

as Archbishop Thomas Cranmer[3]

Bernard Hepton

as Lady Rochford[3]

Sheila Burrell

as Bishop Gardiner[4]

Basil Dignam

as Henry VII[2]

John Woodnutt

as Lord Willoughby[2]

Valentine Palmer

as Lotte, handmaid to Anne of Cleves[5]

Mollie Sugden

as Robert Barnes[5]

Robert James

as Dowager Duchess of Norfolk[6]

Catherine Lacey

Legacy[edit]

The series spawned a sequel, Elizabeth R (1971), starring Glenda Jackson, which included several performers reprising their roles in the first episode: Ronane, Hepton, Dignam and Crutchley.[9] A prequel, The Shadow of the Tower (1972), starring James Maxwell and Norma West as Henry's parents, Henry VII and Elizabeth of York.


Jane Seymour writer Ian Thorne adapted the series into the film Henry VIII and His Six Wives (1972). Michell reprises his role, with the wives being portrayed by Frances Cuka, Charlotte Rampling, Jane Asher, Jenny Bos, Lynne Frederick and Barbara Leigh-Hunt. Cromwell is played by Donald Pleasence, and the Dukes of Norfolk and Suffolk by Michael Gough and Brian Blessed.

Wives of Henry VIII

Cultural depictions of Henry VIII

Cultural depictions of Anne Boleyn

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The Six Wives of Henry VIII