Becket

Description

King Henry II of England has trouble with the Church. When the Archbishop of Canterbury dies, he has a brilliant idea. Rather than appoint another pious cleric loyal to Rome and the Church, he will appoint his old drinking and wenching buddy, Thomas Becket, technically a deacon of the church, to the post. Unfortunately, Becket takes the job seriously and provides abler opposition to Henry. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2003.

Director

Peter Glenville

Casting

Peter Prowse

Richard Burton

Geoffrey Bayldon

Magda Konopka

Laurence Hepworth

Tutte Lemkow

John Phillips

Paul Farrell

Roy Beck

Gino Cervi

Inigo Jackson

Frederick Piper

Donald Wolfit

Felix Aylmer

Hamilton Dyce

Patrick Halpin

Elizabeth Taylor

George Lane Cooper

Ian Cullen

Laurie Heath

Gerald Lawson

Riggs O'Hara

Peter O'Toole

Michael Anthony

Steve Plytas

Percy Herbert

Pamela Brown

Fred Stroud

Guy Deghy

Wilfrid Lawson

John Moulder-Brown

Michael Miller

Linda Marlowe

David Weston

Paul Layton

Véronique Vendell

Terence Soall

Edward Woodward

Jack Taylor

Jennifer Hilary

Niall MacGinnis

Alex Scott

Garrett Cassell

Frank Pettingell

Rose Howlett

Dido Plumb

John Doye

Chris Adcock

Royston Tickner

Siân Phillips

Paolo Stoppa

Graham Stark

Christopher Rhodes

Peter Jeffrey

Ivor Dean

John Gielgud

Dave Clark

Martita Hunt

Fred Wood

Robert Rietti

David Davenport

Patrick Newell

Victor Spinetti

Crew

Lucienne Hill

Geoffrey Unsworth

Hal B. Wallis

Anne V. Coates

Joseph H. Hazen

John Bryan

Edward Anhalt

Peter Glenville

Maurice Carter

Jean Anouilh

Laurence Rosenthal

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3 locations in Alnwick and Bamburgh

Becket

Becket film locations

Alnwick (United Kingdom)

Bamburgh (United Kingdom)

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