BBC Television Shakespeare: King Henry the Eighth

Air Date

Sunday February 25, 1979

Production Code

Unknown

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• Guest Cast

  • Peter Vaughan Gardiner
  • David Dodimead Bishop of Lincoln
  • Jeremy Kemp Duke of Norfolk
  • John Rowe Cromwell
  • Nigel Lambert Sir Thomas Lovell
  • Charles Lloyd Pack Lord Sands
  • Jack McKenzie Sir Nicholas Vaux
  • John Nettleton Lord Chamberlain
  • Oliver Cotton Earl of Surrey
  • David Rintoul Lord Abergavenny
  • Jack May Lord Chancellor
  • Sylvia Coleridge Old Lady
  • Michael Poole Cardinal Campeius
  • Claire Bloom Katharine of Aragon
  • Ronald Pickup Cranmer
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• King Henry the Eighth was largely filmed on location at Leeds Castle, Kent, in rooms Henry VIII had actually lived in five hundred years before. [edit]

• Cardinal Wolsey:
  I have touched the highest point of all my greatness,
  And from that full meridian of my glory
  I haste now to my setting. I shall fall
  Like a bright exhalation in the evening,
  And no man see me more. [edit]
• Griffith:
  Men's evil manners live in brass, their virtues
  We write in water. [edit]
• Norfolk: Be advised;
  Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot
  That it do singe yourself. We may outrun,
  By violent swiftness, that which we run at,
  And lose by over-running. [edit]

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