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  Annette Crosbie

  Catherine of Aragon (1 episode, 1970)
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  Rosalie Crutchley

  Catherine Parr (1 episode, 1970)
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  Hilary Mason

  Lady Boleyn (1 episode, 1970)
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  Carol MacReady

  Amalie (1 episode, 1970)
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  Anne Stallybrass

  Jane Seymour (2 episodes, 1970)
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  Verina Greenlaw

  Princess Mary (1 episode, 1970)
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  Wolfe Morris

  Thomas Cromwell (3 episodes, 1970)
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  Donald Bisset

  Earl of Surrey (1 episode, 1970)

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  Keith Michell

  Henry VIII (6 episodes, 1970)
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  Elvi Hale

  Anne of Cleves (1 episode, 1970)
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  Ronald Adam

  Cardinal Campeggio (1 episode, 1970)
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  Simon Prebble

  Francis Dereham (1 episode, 1970)
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  Patrick Godfrey (I)

  Sir Thomas Wriothesley (2 episodes, 1970)
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  Patrick Troughton

  Duke of Norfolk (5 episodes, 1970)
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  Peter Cellier

  Sir Christopher Hales (1 episode, 1970)

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  Robert Cawdron

  Sir William Kingston (1 episode, 1970)
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  Angela Pleasence

  Catherine Howard (2 episodes, 1970)
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  Dorothy Tutin

  Anne Boleyn (2 episodes, 1970)
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  Margaret Ford

  Maria de Salinas (1 episode, 1970)
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  Basil Dignam

  Bishop Gardiner (3 episodes, 1970)
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  Sheila Burrell

  Lady Rochford (3 episodes, 1970)
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  Peter Reeves

  Philip of Hesse (1 episode, 1970)
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  Anthony Quayle

  Narrator (6 episodes, 1970)
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  Mollie Sugden

  Lotte (1 episode, 1970)
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  Bernard Hepton

  Archbishop Thomas Cranmer (4 episodes, 1970)