Keith Michell as Henry VIII

Donald Pleasence as Thomas Cromwell

Charlotte Rampling as Anne Boleyn

Jane Asher as Jane Seymour

Brian Blessed as Suffolk

Michael Gough as Norfolk

Barbara Leigh-Hunt as Catherine Parr

Jenny Bos as Anne of Cleves

Lynne Frederick as Catherine Howard

Frances Cuka as Katherine of Aragon

Michael Goodliffe as Thomas More

Bernard Hepton as Cranmer

Garfield Morgan as Gardiner

John Bryans as Wolsey

Peter Madden as Fisher

Michael Byrne as Edward Seymour

Michael Godfrey as Sir Ralph Ellerker

Robin Sachs as Thomas Culpeper

Nicholas Amer as Chapuys

Clive Merrison as Weston

David Bailie as Norris

Damien Thomas as Smeaton

Richard Warner as Warham

John Bennett as Wriothesley

Sarah Long as Mary

Peter Clay as Thomas Seymour

Basil Clarke as Abbot

Alan Rowe as French Ambassador

Mark York as Brereton

Margaret Ward as Lady Rochford

Colin Rix as Bowes

Imogen Claire as Maria de Salinas

Ian Calvin as (uncredited)