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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