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Henry VIII and His Six Wives

Year:

1973

Duration:

USA:125 min | Brazil:125 min

Genres:

Drama

IMDB rate:

6.9

Director:

Waris Hussein

Awards:

1 win

Details

Country: UK

Release Date: 1973-02-02

Filming Locations: Hever Castle, Hever, Kent, England, UK

Cast

Actor

Character

Donald Pleasence

Henry VIII and His Six Wives

Keith Michell

King Henry VIII

Charlotte Rampling

Ann Boleyn

Jane Asher

Jane Seymour

Frances Cuka

Katherine of Aragon

Lynne Frederick

Catherine Howard

Jenny Bos

Ann of Cleves

Barbara Leigh-Hunt

Catherine Parr

Michael Gough

Norfolk

Brian Blessed

Suffolk

Michael Goodliffe

Thomas More

Bernard Hepton

Cranmer

Garfield Morgan

Gardiner

John Bryans

Wolsey

John Bennett

Wriothesley

Peter Madden

Fisher

Sarah Long

Mary

Richard Warner

Warham

Peter Clay

Thomas Seymour

Michael Byrne

Edward Seymour

Michael Godfrey

Sir Ralph Ellerker

Robin Sachs

Thomas Culpepper

Nicholas Amer

Chapuys

Basil Clarke

Abbot

Clive Merrison

Weston

Alan Rowe

French Ambassador

Mark York

Brereton

David Bailie

Norris

Margaret Ward

Lady Rochford

Colin Rix

Bowes

Damien Thomas

Smeaton

Imogen Claire

Maria de Salinas

Zienia Merton

Annette (scenes deleted)

Jim Kennedy

Anthony Nevitt (uncredited)

Did you know?

Trivia

Keith Michell (Henry VIII) and Bernard Hepton (Archbishop Thomas Cranmer) are the only actors to reprise their roles from The Six Wives of Henry VIII (1970).

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This film is an adaptation of the BBC drama serial The Six Wives of Henry VIII (1970) in which Donald Pleasence's daughter Angela Pleasence played Henry VIII's fifth wife Catherine Howard.

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Star Keith Michell had previously portrayed King Henry VIII in the UK television series The Six Wives of Henry VIII (1970) and later in two episodes of the later TV series The Prince and the Pauper (1996).

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Goofs

The part of the film covering Henry's marriage to Anne Boleyn features some brief stock/agency footage of a number of British castles. A modern boat's superstructure appears briefly in the lower right-hand corner of the shot featuring a castle on a headland.

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No women, not even Queen Catherine Parr were present at Henry's deathbed.

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Quotes

Thomas Cromwell: It lies within my power to make Your Majesty still more prosperous yet.

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Henry VIII: Wait, Anne. Only wait.

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Thomas Cromwell: Cromwell walks into the council chamber"You where in a great hurry gentlemen to begin without me"

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