The famous history of the life of King Henry the Eight

The Resource The famous history of the life of King Henry the Eight
Label
The famous history of the life of King Henry the Eight
Statement of responsibility
by William Shakespeare ; a BBC-TV production in association with Time-Life Television ; producer, Cedric Messina ; director, Kevin Billington
Title variation
  • King Henry VIII
  • Henry VIII
  • King Henry the Eighth
  • Henry the Eighth
Contributor
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Summary
  • "One of Shakespeare's most elaborate 'pageant' plays, chronicling the life of an extraordinary English king."--Container insert
  • A dramatization of William Shakespeare's historical play, which tells of the intrigues during the first part of Henry's reign, his divorce from Katharine of Aragon, and marriage to Anne Bullen, who gives birth to a baby girl, Elizabeth
Member of
Cataloging source
SNN
Characteristic
videorecording
Credits note
Cameramen, Trevor Wimlett, Mike Winser ; music by James Tyler ; performed by the London Early Music Group ; video-tape editors, Malcolm Banthorpe, Howard Dell
Date time place
Taped Nov. 27, 1978-Jan. 7, 1979 on location at Leeds Castle, Hever Castle, Penshurst Place, Kent
Dewey number
822.33
Intended audience
MPAA rating: Not rated
PerformerNote
John Stride (Henry VIII), Timothy West (Cardinal Wolsey), Michael Poole (Cardinal Campeius), Ronald Pickup (Cranmer), Peter Vaughn (Gardiner), David Dodimead (Bishop of Lincoln), Julian Glover (Duke of Buckingham), Jeremy Kemp (Duke of Norfolk), Charles Lloyd Pack (Lord Sands), John Nettleton (Lord Chamberlain), Lewis Fiander (Duke of Suffolk), Oliver Cotton (Earl of Surrey), David Rintoul (Lord Abergavenny), Jack May (Lord Chancellor), Jack McKenzie (Sir Nicholas Vaux), Nigel Lambert (Sir Thomas Lovell), Claire Bloom (Katharine of Aragon), Barbara Kellerman (Anne Bullen), Sylvia Coleridge (Old Lady), Tony Church (Prologue), John Rowe (Cromwell), Alan Leith (Sergeant-at-Arms), John Bailey (Griffith), David Troughton, Adam Bareham, Jeffrey Daunton, John Cater, Roger Lloyd Pack, Michael Gaunt, Emma Kirkby, Sally Home, Michael Walker, John Rhys-Davies, Timothy Barker, Brian Osborne, John Rogan
Runtime
165
Series statement
Complete dramatic works of William Shakespeare
Technique
live action
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