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    • Source: The Six Wives of Henry VIII (1970 TV series)

      • The Six Wives of Henry VIII is a series of six television plays produced by the BBC and first transmitted between 1 January and 5 February 1970. The series later aired in the United States on CBS from 1 August to 5 September 1971 with narration added by Anthony Quayle. The series was rebroadcast in the United States without commercials on PBS as part of its Masterpiece Theatre series.
      Each of the six plays focuses on a single wife, often from their perspective, and was written by a different dramatist. The series was produced by Mark Shivas and Ronald Travers and directed by Naomi Capon and John Glenister.


      Cast


      Keith Michell as Henry VIII
      Wolfe Morris as Thomas Cromwell
      Annette Crosbie as Catherine of Aragon
      Dorothy Tutin as Anne Boleyn
      Anne Stallybrass as Jane Seymour
      Elvi Hale as Anne of Cleves
      Angela Pleasence as Catherine Howard
      Rosalie Crutchley as Catherine Parr
      Patrick Troughton as the Duke of Norfolk
      Bernard Hepton as Archbishop Thomas Cranmer
      Sheila Burrell as Lady Rochford
      Basil Dignam as Bishop Gardiner
      John Woodnutt as Henry VII
      Valentine Palmer as Lord Willoughby
      Mollie Sugden as Lotte, handmaid to Anne of Cleves
      Robert James as Robert Barnes
      Catherine Lacey as Dowager Duchess of Norfolk


      Episodes




      Reception


      Historian Eric Ives commended the interpretation of writers Rosemary Sisson and Nick McCarty as leading the modern audience to a better understanding of the actions and values of King Henry and Anne Boleyn.


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      Legacy


      The series spawned a sequel, Elizabeth R (1971), starring Glenda Jackson, which included several performers reprising their roles in the first episode: Ronane, Hepton, Dignam and Crutchley. A prequel, The Shadow of the Tower (1972), starring James Maxwell and Norma West as Henry's parents, Henry VII and Elizabeth of York.
      Jane Seymour writer Ian Thorne adapted the series into the film Henry VIII and His Six Wives (1972). Michell reprises his role, with the wives being portrayed by Frances Cuka, Charlotte Rampling, Jane Asher, Jenny Bos, Lynne Frederick and Barbara Leigh-Hunt. Cromwell is played by Donald Pleasence, and the Dukes of Norfolk and Suffolk by Michael Gough and Brian Blessed.


      See also


      Wives of Henry VIII
      Cultural depictions of Henry VIII
      Cultural depictions of Anne Boleyn


      References




      External links


      The Six Wives of Henry VIII at IMDb

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