Cultural depictions of Henry VII of England

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Henry VII of England has been depicted a number of times in popular culture.

[edit] Literature

As a youthful Earl of Richmond, Henry is a character in the play Henry VI, Part 3 by William Shakespeare. He is also a character in Shakespeare's play Richard III.

[edit] Film

Henry has been portrayed by the following actors on film, mostly in versions of the Shakespeare play:

• Eric Maxon in the silent short Richard III (1911), dramatising a part of Shakespeare's play
• James Keane in the silent Shakespeare adaptation Richard III (1912), one of the earliest American feature films
• Ralph Forbes in Tower of London (1939), a horror film loosely dramatising Richard III's rise to power
• Stanley Baker in the Shakespare adaptation Richard III (1955), with Laurence Olivier as Richard
• Powys Thomas in the Canadian short film John Cabot: A Man of the Renaissance (1964)
• Dominic West in Richard III (1995), with Ian McKellen as Richard
• Aidan Quinn in Looking for Richard (1996), with Al Pacino as Richard
• Andrew Tiernan in Richard III (2005), a modernised version set on a Brighton housing estate
• Marco Sanchez in Richard III (2007), a modern day version

[edit] Television

Henry has been portrayed on television by:

• Hennie Scott and Jerome Willis in the BBC series An Age of Kings (1960), which contained all the history plays from Richard II to Richard III
• Heinz Blau in the West German TV version of Shakespeare's play König Richard III (1964)
• James Maxwell in the BBC drama Tower of London: The Innocent (1969) and the BBC series The Shadow of the Tower (1972), which dramatised Henry's reign
• John Woodnutt in the BBC series The Six Wives of Henry VIII (1970), with Keith Michell as Henry VIII
• András Kozák in III. Richárd (1973), a Hungarian TV version of the Shakespeare play
• Peter Benson in the first episode of the BBC comedy series The Black Adder (1983)
• Tim Fuke in the BBC Shakespeare version of Henry VI, Part 3 (1983)
• Brian Deacon in the BBC Shakespeare version of The Tragedy of Richard the Third (1983)
• Patrick Brennan (voice) in the BBC series Shakespeare: The Animated Tales (1994)
• Joss Ackland in the Granada Television serial Henry VIII (2003), with Ray Winstone as Henry VIII
• Adam Woodroffe in an episode of the British educational TV series Historyonics entitled "Richard III" (2004)
• Paul Hilton in the British drama Princes in the Tower (2005), about Perkin Warbeck