The Private Life of Henry VIII
1933
Director: Alexander Korda
Writer: Lajos Biró - Arthur Wimperis
Producer: Alexander Korda - Ludovico Toeplitz
Music: Kurt Schröder
Costume: John Armstrong
Tells how King Henry VIII came to marry five more times after his divorce from his first wife. Charles Laughton plays Henry. Laughton's real-life wife Elsa Lanchester plays Anne of Cleves. With Robert Donat, Merle Oberon, Wendy Barrie, Binnie Barnes and Everley Gregg.
Cast List:
Charles Laughton | .... | King Henry VIII |
Robert Donat | .... | Thomas Culpepper |
Franklin Dyall | .... | Thomas Cromwell |
Miles Mander | .... | Thomas Wriothesley |
Laurence Hanray | .... | Archbishop Thomas Cranmer |
William Austin | .... | Duke of Cleves |
John Loder | .... | Thomas Peynell |
Claud Allister | .... | Cornell |
Gibb McLaughlin | .... | The French Executioner |
Sam Livesey | .... | The English Executioner |
Merle Oberon | .... | Anne Boleyn |
Wendy Barrie | .... | Jane Seymour |
Elsa Lanchester | .... | Anne of Cleves |
Binnie Barnes | .... | Catherine Howard |
Everley Gregg | .... | Catherine Parr |
Lady Tree | .... | The King's Nurse |
Frederick Culley | .... | Duke of Norfolk (uncredited) |
Mark Daly | .... | Bit Part (uncredited) |
Annie Esmond | .... | The Cook's Wife (uncredited) |
William Heughan | .... | Kingston (uncredited) |
Arthur Howard | .... | Kitchen Helper (uncredited) |
Judy Kelly | .... | Lady Rochford (uncredited) |
Wally Patch | .... | Butcher in Kitchen (uncredited) |
Hay Petrie | The King's Barber (uncredited) | |
John Turnbull | .... | Hans Holbein (uncredited) |