Cultural Depictions of Charles I of England - Film and Television

Film and Television

On screen, Charles has been portrayed by:

Russell Thorndike in the British silent film Henrietta Maria; or, The Queen of Sorrow (1923)
Henry Victor in the British silent film The Royal Oak (1923), in which he also played Charles II
Hugh Miller in The Vicar of Bray (1937)
Robert Rietty in The Scarlet Blade (1963)
Stephen MacDonald in the BBC TV drama series Witch Wood (1964)
Kenneth Colley in a drama in the BBC TV series Thirty-Minute Theatre entitled Revolutions: Cromwell (1970)
Alec Guinness in Cromwell (1970)
Jeremy Clyde in the BBC TV drama series The Children of the New Forest (1977) and By the Sword Divided (1983)
Stephen Fry in the BBC TV comedy short Blackadder: The Cavalier Years (1988), with very similar mannerisms to the current Prince of Wales
Bill Paterson in The Return of the Musketeers (1989), loosely based on the novel Twenty Years After
Aleksei Petrenko in the Russian film Mushketyory 20 let spustya (1992), also based on Twenty Years After
Chris Kirk in the British TV drama documentary Civil War: England's Fight for Freedom (1997)
Rupert Everett in To Kill a King (2003)
Martin Turner briefly at the beginning of the BBC TV miniseries Charles II: The Power & the Passion (2003)
Peter Capaldi in Channel 4's four-part TV drama series The Devil's Whore (2008)

Cultural depictions of English and British monarchs

Kingdom of the English	Alfred the Great Edward the Elder Ælfweard Athelstan the Glorious1 Edmund the Magnificent1 Eadred1 Eadwig the Fair1 Edgar the Peaceable1 Edward the Martyr Æthelred the Unready Sweyn Forkbeard Edmund Ironside Cnut1 Harold Harefoot Harthacnut Edward the Confessor Harold Godwinson Edgar the Ætheling

Kingdom of England	William I William II Henry I Stephen Matilda Henry II2 Henry the Young King Richard I John2 Henry III2 Edward I2 Edward II2 Edward III2 Richard II2 Henry IV2 Henry V2 Henry VI2 Edward IV2 Edward V2 Richard III2 Henry VII2 Henry VIII2 Edward VI2 Jane2 Mary I2 Philip2 Elizabeth I 2 James I3 Charles I3

Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland	Oliver Cromwell4 Richard Cromwell4

Kingdom of England	Charles II3 James II3 William III and Mary II3 Anne3

Kingdom of Scotland	Kenneth I MacAlpin Donald I Constantine I (II) Áed Giric Eochaid Donald II Constantine II (III) Malcolm I Indulf Dub Cuilén Amlaíb Kenneth II Constantine III (IV) Kenneth III Malcolm II Duncan I Macbeth Lulach Malcolm III Canmore Donald III Duncan II Donald III Edgar Alexander I David I Malcolm IV William I the Lion Alexander II Alexander III Margaret John Robert I David II Robert II Robert III James I James II James III James IV James V Mary I James VI 5 Charles I5 Charles II5 James VII5 Mary II5 William II5 Anne5

British monarchs after the Acts of Union 1707	Anne George I George II George III George IV William IV Victoria Edward VII George V Edward VIII George VI Elizabeth II

1Overlord of Britain. 2Also ruler of Ireland. 3Also ruler of Scotland. 4Lord Protector. 5Also ruler of England. Debatable or disputed rulers are in italics.

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