Henry VIII

Charles Laughton

Thomas Culpeper

Robert Donat

Anne Boleyn

Merle Oberon

Anne of Cleves

Elsa Lanchester

Thomas Cromwell

Franklin Dyall

Katherine Howard

Binnie Barnes

Wriothesley

Miles Mander

Archbishop Thomas Cranmer

Laurence Hanray

Duke of Cleves

William Austin

Cornell

Claude Allister

Jane Seymour

Wendy Barrie

Thomas Peynell

John Loder

Cornell

Claud Allister

The French Executioner

Gibb McLaughlin

The English Executioner

Sam Livesey

Henry's Old Nurse

Lady Tree

Catherine Parr

Everley Gregg

Hans Holbein

John Turnbull

Duke of Norfolk

Frederick Culley

Extra (uncredited)

Terry-Thomas

Man (uncredited)

Mark Daly

Spectator at Executions (uncredited)

Toni Edgar-Bruce

Lady Rochford

Judy Kelly

Kingston

William Heughan

The Cook's Wife (uncredited)

Annie Esmond

Kitchen Helper (uncredited)

Arthur Howard

Butcher in Kitchen (uncredited)

Wally Patch

The King's Barber (uncredited)

Hay Petrie