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Sir Thomas More in Films and Television

This is a list of the movies which feature Sir Thomas More as a character. The list is chronological, from the newest to the oldest. Movies, TV series, or comedy shows where he makes only a brief appearance as a minor character have not been included. For more, please visit IMDb.com.

DVD Cover The Tudors: Season 2 (2008) (TV)
Wr. Michael Hirst
Dr. Ciaran Donnelly, et al.

Starring Jonathan Rhys Meyers as King Henry VIII, Jeremy Northam as Sir Thomas More.

The second season of this hit TV series follows the fall from grace of Sir Thomas More, then Anne Boleyn, and ends with the king's marriage to Jane Seymour.

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DVD Cover The Tudors: Season 1 (2007) (TV)
Wr. Michael Hirst
Dr. Ciaran Donnelly, et al.

Starring Jonathan Rhys Meyersas King Henry VIII, Jeremy Northam as Sir Thomas More, Sam Neill as Cardinal Wolsey.

The first season of this hit TV series follows the king's obsessive attraction to Anne Boleyn, his attempts to get a divorce from Catherine of Aragon, Sir Thomas More's pangs of conscience, and the career and fall of Cardinal Wolsey.

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VHS Cover A Man for All Seasons (1988) (TV VHS)
Wr. Robert Bolt
Dr. Charlton Heston
Starring Charlton Heston, Sir John Gielgud, Vanessa Redgrave.

A TV movie based on Bolt's award-winning Broadway play about Sir Thomas More's crisis of conscience during King Henry VIII's divorce and his subsequent fall, being unable to concede to the royal supremacy.

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DVD Cover God's Outlaw: The Story of William Tyndale (1986)
Wr. Ben Steed
Dr. Tony Tew
Starring Roger Rees, Keith Barron.

A fervently religious movie about Tyndale, one of the first translators of the English Bible. More's controversy with Tyndale is briefly featured.

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DVD Cover Anne of the Thousand Days (1969)
Wr. Maxwell Anderson, et al.
Dr. Charles Jarrott

Starring Richard Burton and Geneviève Bujold.

Based on Maxwell Anderson's play, the movie traces the courtship and marriage of King Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn.

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DVD Cover A Man for All Seasons (1966)
Wr. Robert Bolt
Dr. Fred Zinnemann
Starring Paul Scofield, Robert Shaw, Orson Welles.

Multiple Oscar-winning movie based on Bolt's Broadway play, about Sir Thomas More's crisis of conscience during King Henry VIII's divorce and his subsequent fall, being unable to concede to the royal supremacy.

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Persons of Interest
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William Tyndale
Pico della Mirandola
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William Grocyn
Hugh Latimer
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Historical Events
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Images of London:
London in the time of Henry VII. MS. Roy. 16 F. ii.
London, 1510, earliest view in print
Map of England from Saxton's Descriptio Angliae, 1579
Location Map of Elizabethan London
Plan of the Bankside, Southwark, in Shakespeare's time
Detail of Norden's Map of the Bankside, 1593
Bull and Bear Baiting Rings from the Agas Map (1569-1590, pub. 1631)
Sketch of the Swan Theatre, c. 1596
Westminster in the Seventeenth Century, by Hollar
Visscher's Panoramic View of London, 1616. COLOR



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