Overview - Cardinal Wolsey

Overview

King Henry VIII smitten with Anne Boleyn wishes to displace his estimable Queen Catherine for her. He appeals to Cardinal Wolsey to set aside the tenets of the Church and consent to his divorce from the Queen. The cardinal absolutely refuses to do anything so inimical to his office, as representative of the Holy See. Angered King Henry induces the Archbishop of Canterbury to call a special council through which he divorces himself from Queen Catherine. In punishment for his refusal to accede to the king's wishes, the cardinal is exiled to Leicester Abbey where he dies three days afterward, conscious that he had sustained the sacredness of his office, a martyr to his faith and of service to his king.

Cast

• Name: Hal Reid

  Character: Cardinal Wolsey

  Popularity: 0.108

  

• Name: Julia Swayne Gordon

  Character: Catherine of Aragon

  Popularity: 0.1218

  

• Name: Clara Kimball Young

  Character: Anne Boleyn

  Popularity: 0.188

  

• Name: Tefft Johnson

  Character: King Henry VIII

  Popularity: 0.1377

  

• Name: Robert Gaillard

  Character: Gardiner, later Bishop of Winchester

  Popularity: 0.0754

  

• Name: Logan Paul

  Character: Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury

  Popularity: 0.0617

  

• Name: George Ober

  Character: Bishop of Essex

  Popularity: 0.0214

  

• Name: Hal Wilson

  Character: King's friend (as Harold Wilson)

  Popularity: 0.0912