William Shakespeare

Alan Shallcross

Kevin Billington

Alun Hughes

John Rhys-Davies

Capucius, Ambassador from Emperor Charles V

Claire Bloom

Katharine of Aragon

Jeremy Kemp

Duke of Norfolk

Ronald Pickup

Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury

Julian Glover

Duke of Buckingham

Peter Vaughan

Gardiner, Bishop of Winchester

Michael Gaunt

A Crier

David Troughton

A Surveyor

Roger Lloyd Pack

2nd Gentleman

Charles Lloyd Pack

Lord Sandys

Timothy West

Cardinal Wolsey

John Cater

1st Gentleman

David Rintoul

Lord Abergavenny

John Nettleton

Lord Chamberlain

Oliver Cotton

Earl of Surrey

Barbara Kellerman

Anne Bullen

John Stride

Henry VIII

Jack May

Lord Chancellor

John Bailey

Griffith / Gentleman Usher

Alan Leith

Sergeant-at-Arms

Michael Poole

Cardinal Campeius

Jack McKenzie

Sir Nicholas Vaux

Emma Kirkby

Singer

Don Taylor

Deseño de produción

Malcolm Banthorpe

Edición

Howard Dell

Edición

Geraldine Stephenson

Coreógrafo

Hubert Cartwright

Dirección de iluminación

Cedric Messina

Produción

Terence Banks

Axudante de produción

Joan Hamilton

Axudante de produción

Fraser Lowden

Xerente de produción

Ian Leiper

Son

James Tyler

Composición de música orixinal

David Lloyd-Jones

Consultoría musical

Dawn Alcock

Maquillaxe

BBC

Time-Life Television Productions