A Man for All Seasons (1988 film)

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A Man for All Seasons
Directed by Charlton Heston
Written by Robert Bolt
Starring Charlton Heston
John Gielgud
Vanessa Redgrave
Release date(s) December 1988
Running time 120 minutes
Language English
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A Man for All Seasons is a 1988 television movie about Sir Thomas More, directed by and starring Charlton Heston. It is a remake of the 1966 film A Man for All Seasons and is based on the play by Robert Bolt of the same name. A Man for All Seasons was the first made-for-TV film produced on behalf of the TNT television network.

The film stars Heston as More, Vanessa Redgrave (who cameoed in the 1966 version) as his wife Alice, Sir John Gielgud as Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, Richard Chamberlain as King Henry VIII, Richard Johnson as the Duke of Norfolk, and Roy Kinnear as the narrator, "The Common Man", who was cut from the previous film.