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.
Acting
Keith Michell's Henry: charming, monstrous, devastatingly human.
Costume
Tudor fashion that screams 'I have syphilis and power.'
Director
Waris Hussein
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
Lynne Frederick
Catherine Howard
Frances Cuka
Katherine of Aragon
Michael Goodliffe
Thomas More
Bernard Hepton
Cranmer
Garfield Morgan
Gardiner
Peter Madden
Fisher
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