King Henry II

Peter O'Toole

Thomas à Becket

Richard Burton

King Louis VII of France

John Gielgud

the Cardinal / Cardinal Zambelli

Gino Cervi

Empress Matilda

Martita Hunt

Bishop Folliot

Donald Wolfit

Pope Alexander III

Paolo Stoppa

Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine

Pamela Brown

Brother John

David Weston

Zambelli

Gino Servi

Henry II's Baron

Percy Herbert

Gwendolen

Sian Phillips

Archbishop of Canterbury

Felix Aylmer

Pretty French Girl

Veronique Vendell

English Peasant

Gerald Lawson

Henry II's Baron

Niall MacGinnis

Henry II's Baron

Christopher Rhodes

Peasant's Daughter

Jennifer Hilary

Bishop of Winchester

John Phillips

Prince Henry

Riggs O'Hara

Village Extra with Blonde Wig (uncredited)

Elizabeth Taylor

Girl on Balcony

Magda Konopka

Bishop of York

Frank Pettingell

Bishop of Chichester

Hamilton Dyce

Robert de Beaumont

Inigo Jackson

Farmer's Daughter

Linda Marlowe

William of Corbeil

Patrick Newell

Brother Philip

Geoffrey Bayldon

Pope's Secretary

Graham Stark

David Davenport

Bishop of Chichester

Hamilton Dyce

French Tailor

Victor Spinetti

Girl on Balcony

Magda Knopke

Henry II's Baron

Peter Jeffrey

Baron

Michael Miller

Baron

Peter Prowse

Jack Taylor

Sergeant

Chris Adcock

Young French boy

Roy Beck

Clement

Edward Woodward

Director

Peter Glenville