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Becket (1964)
Directed by Peter Glenville
Overview
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.
Rated PG-13 | Length 148 minutes
Actors
Richard Burton | Peter O'Toole | John Gielgud | Gino Cervi | Paolo Stoppa | Donald Wolfit | David Weston | Martita Hunt | Pamela Brown | Percy Herbert | Siân Phillips | Inigo Jackson | Felix Aylmer | Niall MacGinnis | Christopher Rhodes | John Phillips | Frank Pettingell | Véronique Vendell | Jennifer Hilary | David Davenport | Hamilton Dyce | Peter Jeffrey | Michael Miller | Peter Prowse | Jack Taylor | Chris Adcock | Michael Anthony | Geoffrey Bayldon | Roy Beck | Garrett Cassell | Dave Clark | George Lane Cooper | Ian Cullen | Ivor Dean | Guy Deghy | John Doye | Paul Farrell | Patrick Halpin | Laurie Heath | Laurence Hepworth | Rose Howlett | Magda Konopka | Gerald Lawson | Wilfrid Lawson | Paul Layton | Tutte Lemkow | Linda Marlowe | John Moulder-Brown | Patrick Newell | Riggs O'Hara | Frederick Piper | Dido Plumb | Steve Plytas | Robert Rietti | Alex Scott | Terence Soall | Victor Spinetti | Graham Stark | Fred Stroud | Elizabeth Taylor | Royston Tickner | Fred Wood | Edward Woodward