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- Tony Church Prologue
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John Stride
Henry VIII
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Julian Glover
Duke of Buckingham
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Jeremy Kemp
Duke of Norfolk
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David Rintoul
Lord Abergavenny
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Timothy West
Cardinal Wolsey
- John Rowe Cromwell
- Lewis Flander Duke of Suffolk
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Alan Leith
Sergeant-at-Arms
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Claire Bloom
Katharine of Aragon
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John Bailey
Griffith / Gentleman Usher
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David Troughton
A Surveyor
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John Nettleton
Lord Chamberlain
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Charles Lloyd Pack
Lord Sandys
- Nigel Lambert Sir Thomas Lovell
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Barbara Kellerman
Anne Bullen
- Adam Bareham Sir Henry Guildford
- Jeffrey Daunton A Servant
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John Cater
1st Gentleman
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Roger Lloyd Pack
2nd Gentleman
- Jack McKenzie Sir Nicholas Vaux
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Michael Poole
Cardinal Campeius
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Peter Vaughan
Gardiner, Bishop of Winchester
- Sylvia Coleridge Old Lady, Anne Bullen's Friend
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Michael Gaunt
A Crier
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Ronald Pickup
Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury
- David Dodimead Bishop of Lincoln
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Emma Kirkby
Singer
- Sally Home Patience
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Oliver Cotton
Earl of Surrey
- Michael Walker A Messenger
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John Rhys-Davies
Capucius, Ambassador from Emperor Charles V
- Timothy Barker Page to Gardiner
- Brian Osborne Door-Keeper of the Council Chamber
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Jack May
Lord Chancellor
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John Rogan
Dr. Butts