Directed by:
Alexander KordaScreenplay:
Lajos BiróVOD (2)
Plots(1)
Charles Laughton gulps beer and chomps on mutton, in his first of many iconic screen roles, as King Henry VIII, the ultimate anti-husband. Alexander Korda's first major international success is a raucous, entertaining, even poignant peek into the boudoirs of the infamous king and his six wives. (official distributor synopsis)
Cast
![Charles Laughton](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/164/339/164339115_39b100.png)
Charles Laughton
UK
Best movies:
Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
It Started with Eve (1941)
Spartacus (1960)
![Robert Donat](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/164/337/164337594_d1cfe8.jpg)
Robert Donat
UK
Best movies:
The 39 Steps (1935)
Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939)
The Citadel (1938)
Franklin Dyall
UK
Best movies:
Fire Over England (1937)
The Private Life of Henry VIII. (1933)
Atlantic (1929)
![Miles Mander](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/505/505316_a77091.jpg)
Miles Mander
UK
Best movies:
To Be or Not to Be (1942)
Madame Curie (1943)
The White Cliffs of Dover (1944)
![William Austin](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/527/160527094_c7b67b.jpg)
William Austin
Guyana
Best movies:
The Gay Divorcee (1934)
It (1927)
National Velvet (1944)
![John Loder](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/505/505324_6c9721.jpg)
John Loder
UK
Best movies:
Gentleman Jim (1942)
The Woman Alone (1936)
How Green Was My Valley (1941)
![Gibb McLaughlin](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/335/160335607_a63765.jpg)
Gibb McLaughlin
UK
Best movies:
Oliver Twist (1948)
The Man Who Never Was (1956)
Night and the City (1950)
![Merle Oberon](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/271/271025_1f7b57.jpg)
Merle Oberon
India
Best movies:
Wuthering Heights (1939)
Deep in My Heart (1954)
These Three (1936)
![Wendy Barrie](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/431/431679_287bd5.jpg)
Wendy Barrie
UK
Best movies:
Dead End (1937)
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939)
Day-Time Wife (1939)
![Elsa Lanchester](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/271/271937_e9fbb6.jpg)
Elsa Lanchester
UK
Best movies:
Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
Un cadavre au dessert (1976)
Hay Petrie
UK
Best movies:
The Red Shoes (1948)
Great Expectations (1946)
The Fallen Idol (1948)
![Binnie Barnes](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/505/505310_d20f30.jpg)
Binnie Barnes
UK
Best movies:
The Last of the Mohicans (1936)
Holiday (1938)
Frontier Marshal (1939)
![Claud Allister](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/923/160923981_a6d12e.jpg)
Claud Allister
UK
Best movies:
The Awful Truth (1937)
Kiss Me Kate (1953)
Dracula's Daughter (1936)
Everley Gregg
UK
Best movies:
Brief Encounter (1945)
Great Expectations (1946)
The Man Who Never Was (1956)
John Turnbull
UK
Best movies:
The 39 Steps (1935)
The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934)
The Private Life of Henry VIII. (1933)
Mark Daly
UK
Best movies:
Footsteps in the Fog (1955)
The Ghost Goes West (1935)
The Private Life of Henry VIII. (1933)