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Sir Thomas More in Films and Television 
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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.
  
 
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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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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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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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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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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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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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The Tudors
  
King Henry VII 
Elizabeth of York
  
King Henry VIII 
Queen Catherine of Aragon 
Queen Anne Boleyn 
Queen Jane Seymour 
Queen Anne of Cleves 
Queen Catherine Howard 
Queen Katherine Parr
  
King Edward VI 
Queen Mary I 
Queen Elizabeth I 
Henry Fitzroy, Duke of Richmond
  
Renaissance English Writers 
Bishop John Fisher 
William Tyndale 
Sir Thomas More 
John Heywood 
Thomas Sackville 
Nicholas Udall 
John Skelton 
Sir Thomas Wyatt 
Henry Howard 
Hugh Latimer 
Thomas Cranmer 
Roger Ascham 
Sir Thomas Hoby 
John Foxe 
George Gascoigne 
John Lyly 
Thomas Nashe 
Sir Philip Sidney 
Edmund Spenser 
Richard Hooker 
Robert Southwell 
Robert Greene 
George Peele 
Thomas Kyd 
Edward de Vere 
Christopher Marlowe 
Anthony Munday 
Sir Walter Ralegh 
Thomas Hariot 
Thomas Campion 
Mary Sidney Herbert 
Sir John Davies 
Samuel Daniel 
Michael Drayton 
Fulke Greville 
Emilia Lanyer 
William Shakespeare 
  
Persons of Interest 
Cardinal Thomas Wolsey 
Archbishop Thomas Cranmer 
Thomas Cromwell 
John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester 
Cardinal Lorenzo Campeggio 
Cardinal Reginald Pole 
Stephen Gardiner, Bishop of Winchester 
William Tyndale 
Pico della Mirandola 
Desiderius Erasmus 
Christopher Saint-German 
Thomas Linacre 
William Grocyn 
Hugh Latimer 
Elizabeth Barton, the Nun of Kent 
For more, visit Encyclopedia
 
  
Historical Events 
Field of the Cloth of Gold, 1520 
Pilgrimage of Grace, 1536 
The Babington Plot, 1586 
The Spanish Armada, 1588
 
  
Government 
Oath of Supremacy 
The Act of Supremacy, 1534 
The First Act of Succession, 1534 
The Third Act of Succession, 1544 
The Ten Articles, 1536 
The Six Articles, 1539 
The Second Statute of Repeal, 1555
 
  
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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