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