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A Man for All Seasons (Original title)Robert Bolt's a Man for All Seasons (Help search title)
Dates: 1988 (Copyright), 07 December 1988 (Television)

Countries: USA, United Kingdom

Directed by: Charlton Heston

Production company billing: ©1988. Turner Network Television Turner Network Television presents an Agamemnon Films production in association with British Lion
Synopsis: Loyalties are strained when Sir Thomas More opposes Henry VIII's divorce. For More, personal principles are at stake, but so is his life.

Genres:
Historical drama, Drama

Subjects:
Thomas More (1478-1535), Henry VIII (1491-1547), Divorce, Marriage, Conscience, Catholicism
TV Transmissions
Date: 07 December 1988Broadcast company: TNTCountry: USALanguage: English - Colour - Sound
Date: 10 November 1991Broadcast company: BBCCountry: United KingdomTransmission time: 15:00-17:25Slot duration: 145 minsNetwork
Date: 27 December 1996Broadcast channel: BBC2Country: United KingdomTransmission time: 07:20-09:45Slot duration: 145 minsNetwork

Credits (104)
©: Turner Network Television, an Agamemnon Films production: Agamemnon Films, In association with: British Lion, Presents: Turner Network Television, Executive Producer: Peter Snell, Producer: Fraser C. Heston, Associate Producer: Ted Lloyd, Production Co-ordinator: Monica Rogers, Accounts Assistant: Tarn Harper, Production Accountant: John Wall, Assistant Accountant: Sue Wall, Accounts Secretary: Diane Christian, Unit Manager: Kieron Phipps, Producer's Assistant/Los Angeles: Carol Lanning, Producer's Assistant: Lesley Keane, Producer's Assistant/Los Angeles: Gina Tamburine, 2nd Unit Director: Fraser C. Heston, 1st Assistant Director: Terry Needham, 2nd Assistant Director: Bobby Wright, 3rd Assistant Director: Antony Ford, Director's Assistant: Francine Taylor, Script Supervisor: Diana Dill, Casting Director: Rebecca Howard, Written by: Robert Bolt, Original play: Robert Bolt, Director of Photography: Denis Lewiston, 2nd Unit Director of Photography: Alan Hall, Camera Operator: Mike Rutter, Jimmy Turrell, Focus: Paul Cave, Focus: Jeremy Jones, David Tondeur, Clapper/Loader: Stephen Murray, Clapper/Loader: Nick Penn, Keith Sewell, Gaffer: Alan Martin, Best Boy: Dave Moore, Grip: John Abrahams, Grip: Ray Hall, Mark Ellis, Stills: Graham Attwood, Matte Artist: Ray Caple, Chargehand Rigger: Michael Redmond, Standby Stagehand: Eamonn Redmond, Chargehand Stagehand: Barry Gates, Editor: Eric Boyd-Perkins, 1st Assistant Editor: Bill Parnell, Danny Retz, 2nd Assistant Editor: Jeremy Childs, Editorial Trainee: Adam Snell, Charles Crutcher, Production Designer: Tony Woollard, Art Director: Malcolm Stone, Set Decorator: Joanne Woollard, Scenic Artist: Emma Harrison, Production Buyer: Belinda Edwards, Property Master: Brian Payne, Chargehand Dressing Prop: Brian Harris, Prop Storeman: Dave Jordan, Chargehand Standby Prop: Bill Hargreaves, Standby Prop: John Butler, Construction Manager: Roy Evans, Supervising Painter: Ted Restall, Standby Painter: Norman North, Supervising Carpenter: Leon Apsey, Chargehand Standby Carpenter: Mickey Law, Costumes for Miss [Vanessa] Redgrave: John Bloomfield, Wardrobe Supervisor: Tiny Nicholls, Wardrobe Master: Brian Cox, Wardrobe Assistant: Jane Howell, Chief Make-up: Tom Smith, Make-up: Sue Black, Jean Richmond, Lenses and Panaflex Camera by: Panavision, Originated on: Eastman Color Film from Kodak, Colour by: Technicolor, CFI, Original Music by: Julia Downes, Original Tudor Music by: H.r.h. Henry Viii, Music Performed by: New London Consort, [Music] Arranged and Conducted by: Paul Daniel, Music Supervisor: Eric Tomlinson, Music Recorded at: Abbey Road Studios, Sound Recordist: David Hildyard, Boom Operator: Martin Trevis, Sound Maintenance: John Pitt, Sound Re-recorded at: The Burbank Studios, Re-recording Mixer: Wayne Artman, Re-recording Mixer: Tom Beckert, Tom E. Dahl, Supervising Sound Editor: Norval D. Crutcher, Sound Editor: John-Paul Jones, G.W. Davis, Assistant Sound Editor: Ron Meredith, Sound Assistant: Rudy J. Lara, ADR Recording: Lionel Strutt, ADR Editor: Thomas G. Whiting, Publicity by: Baker Winokur Ryder, Unit Publicist: Marilyn Heston, Unit Driver: John Newey, Bruce Neighbour, 'This film is dedicated to': Roy Kinnear, Filmed at: Pinewood Studios
Cast (15)
Charlton Heston (Sir Thomas More), Vanessa Redgrave (Lady Alice More), John Gielgud (Cardinal Wolsey), Richard Johnson (Duke of Norfolk), Roy Kinnear (The Common Man), Benjamin Whitrow (Thomas Cromwell), Adrienne Thomas (Margaret More), Martin Chamberlain (King Henry VIII), John Hudson (William Roper), Jonathan Hackett (Richard Rich), Nicholas Amer (Chapuys), Milton Cadman (Cranmer), Valerie Minifie (woman litigant), Geoff Owen (Chapuy's assistant), Brian Badcoe (chamberlain)