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Henry V is a 1989
1989 in film

Events* "Batman " is released on June 23rd, and went on to become the biggest blockbuster of the year; Grossing over $250 million at the box office....
 film directed by Kenneth Branagh
Kenneth Branagh

Kenneth Charles Branagh is an Emmy Award-winning, Academy Award-nominated actor and film director from Northern Ireland....
, and based upon the Shakespeare
William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare was an English people poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's preeminent dramatist....
 play
Henry V (play)

Henry V is a history play by William Shakespeare, believed to be written in 1599. It is based on the life of King Henry V of England, and focuses on events immediately before and after the Battle of Agincourt during the Hundred Years' War....
 about the famous English King
Henry V of England

Henry V was one of the most significant English warrior kings of the 15th century. He was born at Monmouth, Wales, in the tower above the gatehouse of Monmouth Castle, and reigned as King of England from 1413 to 1422....
. Branagh stars in the title role with Derek Jacobi
Derek Jacobi

Sir Derek George Jacobi Order of the British Empire is an England actor and film director. Like Laurence Olivier, he bears the distinction of holding two knighthoods, Danish and British....
 as the Chorus (a narrator). Brian Blessed
Brian Blessed

Brian Blessed is an England actor, author and adventurer....
, Ian Holm
Ian Holm

Sir Ian Holm Order of the British Empire is an England award-winning actor known for his stage work and for many film roles, including the hobbit Bilbo Baggins in the first and third films of the The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, Father Vito Cornelius in The Fifth Element and the android Ash in Alien ....
, Christian Bale
Christian Bale

Christian Charles Philip Bale is an English people actor whose film credits include American Psycho , Batman Begins, The Dark Knight , The Prestige , 3:10 to Yuma , and the upcoming film Terminator Salvation, in which he will play the role of John Connor....
, Paul Scofield
Paul Scofield

David Paul Scofield, Order of the Companions of Honour, Order of the British Empire was an England award-winning actor of stage and screen. Noted for his distinctive voice and delivery, Scofield received an Academy Award and a BAFTA Award for his performance as Sir Thomas More in the 1966 in film film A Man for All Seasons , a reprise of...
, Jimmy Yuill
Jimmy Yuill

Jimmy Yuill is a Scottish people actor. Originally hailing from Golspie in the far north of Scotland, he went on to become a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company and then later of the Renaissance Theatre Company....
 and Emma Thompson
Emma Thompson

Emma Thompson is a two-time Academy Award-, Emmy Award-, BAFTA Award- and Golden Globe-winning English actress, comedian, and screenwriter. She is also a patron of the Refugee Council....
 are among the other stars, whilst Robbie Coltrane
Robbie Coltrane

Robbie Coltrane, Order of the British Empire , is a Scottish actor, comedian and author....
 and Judi Dench
Judi Dench

Dame Judith Olivia Dench, Order of the Companions of Honour, Order of the British Empire, Royal Society of Arts is an England actress. She has won nine BAFTAs, seven Laurence Olivier Awards, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, an Academy Award, two Golden Globe Awards's and a Tony Award....
 have the cameo roles of Falstaff and Mistress Quickly, both of them major characters in other Shakespearean plays. Another minor character, "Michael Williams"
Michael Williams (character)

Michael Williams is a character in William Shakespeare's Henry V . He is one of three soldiers visited by King Henry before the Battle of Agincort....
, is played by the actor Michael Williams, Judi Dench's husband in real life.

The film was produced by Bruce Sharman with the British Broadcasting Corporation and Renaissance Films. Whereas the 1940s film used the Elizabethan Globe theatre as a setting in which to introduce the action, the 1989 version used a film set as the background to Chorus's opening speech. The visual and verbal styles of the film are much grittier than the Laurence Olivier
Laurence Olivier

Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier, Order of Merit was an English people Stage actor, Theatre director, and Theatrical producer. He is one of the most famous and revered actors of the 20th century, along with his contemporaries John Gielgud, Peggy Ashcroft and Ralph Richardson....
 film (see: Henry V
Henry V (1944 film)

Henry V is a 1944 in film film adaptation of William Shakespeare's Henry V . The on-screen title is The Chronicle History of King Henry the Fift with His Battell Fought at Agincourt in France ....
), particularly with respect to the Battle of Agincourt
Battle of Agincourt

The Battle of Agincourt was an English victory against a much larger French army in the Hundred Years' War. The battle occurred on Friday 25 October 1415 ...
 scenes, which are strongly reminiscent of the battle scenes in the films of Akira Kurosawa
Akira Kurosawa

was a prominent Japanese people filmmaker, film producer, screenwriter and film editing. His first credited film as director, , was released in 1943, his last as director, , in 1993....
, or the Battle of Shrewsbury
Battle of Shrewsbury

The Battle of Shrewsbury was a Medieval warfare fought on July 21, 1403, waged between an army led by the House of Lancaster King, Henry IV of England, and a rebel army led by Henry 'Hotspur' Percy from Northumberland....
 in Orson Welles's Chimes At Midnight
Chimes at Midnight

Chimes at Midnight is a 1965 in film directed by Orson Welles based around William Shakespeare's recurring character, Falstaff. Welles himself played Falstaff, Keith Baxter was Prince Hal , and John Gielgud played Henry IV of England....
.






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Henry V is a 1989
1989 in film

Events* "Batman " is released on June 23rd, and went on to become the biggest blockbuster of the year; Grossing over $250 million at the box office....
 film directed by Kenneth Branagh
Kenneth Branagh

Kenneth Charles Branagh is an Emmy Award-winning, Academy Award-nominated actor and film director from Northern Ireland....
, and based upon the Shakespeare
William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare was an English people poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's preeminent dramatist....
 play
Henry V (play)

Henry V is a history play by William Shakespeare, believed to be written in 1599. It is based on the life of King Henry V of England, and focuses on events immediately before and after the Battle of Agincourt during the Hundred Years' War....
 about the famous English King
Henry V of England

Henry V was one of the most significant English warrior kings of the 15th century. He was born at Monmouth, Wales, in the tower above the gatehouse of Monmouth Castle, and reigned as King of England from 1413 to 1422....
. Branagh stars in the title role with Derek Jacobi
Derek Jacobi

Sir Derek George Jacobi Order of the British Empire is an England actor and film director. Like Laurence Olivier, he bears the distinction of holding two knighthoods, Danish and British....
 as the Chorus (a narrator). Brian Blessed
Brian Blessed

Brian Blessed is an England actor, author and adventurer....
, Ian Holm
Ian Holm

Sir Ian Holm Order of the British Empire is an England award-winning actor known for his stage work and for many film roles, including the hobbit Bilbo Baggins in the first and third films of the The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, Father Vito Cornelius in The Fifth Element and the android Ash in Alien ....
, Christian Bale
Christian Bale

Christian Charles Philip Bale is an English people actor whose film credits include American Psycho , Batman Begins, The Dark Knight , The Prestige , 3:10 to Yuma , and the upcoming film Terminator Salvation, in which he will play the role of John Connor....
, Paul Scofield
Paul Scofield

David Paul Scofield, Order of the Companions of Honour, Order of the British Empire was an England award-winning actor of stage and screen. Noted for his distinctive voice and delivery, Scofield received an Academy Award and a BAFTA Award for his performance as Sir Thomas More in the 1966 in film film A Man for All Seasons , a reprise of...
, Jimmy Yuill
Jimmy Yuill

Jimmy Yuill is a Scottish people actor. Originally hailing from Golspie in the far north of Scotland, he went on to become a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company and then later of the Renaissance Theatre Company....
 and Emma Thompson
Emma Thompson

Emma Thompson is a two-time Academy Award-, Emmy Award-, BAFTA Award- and Golden Globe-winning English actress, comedian, and screenwriter. She is also a patron of the Refugee Council....
 are among the other stars, whilst Robbie Coltrane
Robbie Coltrane

Robbie Coltrane, Order of the British Empire , is a Scottish actor, comedian and author....
 and Judi Dench
Judi Dench

Dame Judith Olivia Dench, Order of the Companions of Honour, Order of the British Empire, Royal Society of Arts is an England actress. She has won nine BAFTAs, seven Laurence Olivier Awards, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, an Academy Award, two Golden Globe Awards's and a Tony Award....
 have the cameo roles of Falstaff and Mistress Quickly, both of them major characters in other Shakespearean plays. Another minor character, "Michael Williams"
Michael Williams (character)

Michael Williams is a character in William Shakespeare's Henry V . He is one of three soldiers visited by King Henry before the Battle of Agincort....
, is played by the actor Michael Williams, Judi Dench's husband in real life.

The film was produced by Bruce Sharman with the British Broadcasting Corporation and Renaissance Films. Whereas the 1940s film used the Elizabethan Globe theatre as a setting in which to introduce the action, the 1989 version used a film set as the background to Chorus's opening speech. The visual and verbal styles of the film are much grittier than the Laurence Olivier
Laurence Olivier

Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier, Order of Merit was an English people Stage actor, Theatre director, and Theatrical producer. He is one of the most famous and revered actors of the 20th century, along with his contemporaries John Gielgud, Peggy Ashcroft and Ralph Richardson....
 film (see: Henry V
Henry V (1944 film)

Henry V is a 1944 in film film adaptation of William Shakespeare's Henry V . The on-screen title is The Chronicle History of King Henry the Fift with His Battell Fought at Agincourt in France ....
), particularly with respect to the Battle of Agincourt
Battle of Agincourt

The Battle of Agincourt was an English victory against a much larger French army in the Hundred Years' War. The battle occurred on Friday 25 October 1415 ...
 scenes, which are strongly reminiscent of the battle scenes in the films of Akira Kurosawa
Akira Kurosawa

was a prominent Japanese people filmmaker, film producer, screenwriter and film editing. His first credited film as director, , was released in 1943, his last as director, , in 1993....
, or the Battle of Shrewsbury
Battle of Shrewsbury

The Battle of Shrewsbury was a Medieval warfare fought on July 21, 1403, waged between an army led by the House of Lancaster King, Henry IV of England, and a rebel army led by Henry 'Hotspur' Percy from Northumberland....
 in Orson Welles's Chimes At Midnight
Chimes at Midnight

Chimes at Midnight is a 1965 in film directed by Orson Welles based around William Shakespeare's recurring character, Falstaff. Welles himself played Falstaff, Keith Baxter was Prince Hal , and John Gielgud played Henry IV of England....
. The film's budget was $9 million.

One of the most surprising roles was that of Mountjoy, the French herald. Although he appears only in a few short scenes (and always wears the same royal-blue garment), he is given several memorable lines. Mountjoy was also named in Olivier's 1944 film
Henry V (1944 film)

Henry V is a 1944 in film film adaptation of William Shakespeare's Henry V . The on-screen title is The Chronicle History of King Henry the Fift with His Battell Fought at Agincourt in France ....
 and the 1979 BBC television version.

Reception

Henry V received near-universal critical acclaim for Branagh's Oscar-nominated performance and direction, for the accessibility of its Shakespearean language and particularly for its music by first-time composer Patrick Doyle
Patrick Doyle

Patrick Doyle is an Academy Award nominated Scotland musician and film score composer. His collaboration with Kenneth Branagh and the Shakespearean community is well known, but his scoring talents are versatile, and he has composed orchestral scores for a variety of films and film genres, including The Walt Disney Company's Shipwrecked ,...
, which was performed by the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra

The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra is a British orchestra based in Birmingham, England....
 and conducted by Simon Rattle
Simon Rattle

Sir Simon Denis Rattle, Order of the British Empire, Royal Society of Arts, is an England Conducting. He rose to prominence as conductor of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, and is currently principal conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic ....
.

The film grossed $10 million in the U.S. and at the time of its widest release played on 134 U.S. screens. Phyllis Dalton won the Academy Award
Academy Awards

The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize excellence of professionals in the film industry, including directors, actors, and writers....
 for Best Costume Design
Academy Award for Costume Design

This Academy Awards was first given for films made in 1948 when separate awards were given for black-and-white and color movies....
 and the film was nominated for Best Actor in a Leading Role
Academy Award for Best Actor

Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role is one of the Academy Award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry....
 (Branagh) and Best Director
Academy Award for Directing

The Academy Award for Achievement in Directing is one of the Academy Award presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to Film directors working in the film industry....
 (Branagh).

Full Cast


  • Chorus - Derek Jacobi
    Derek Jacobi

    Sir Derek George Jacobi Order of the British Empire is an England actor and film director. Like Laurence Olivier, he bears the distinction of holding two knighthoods, Danish and British....
  • Henry V of England
    Henry V of England

    Henry V was one of the most significant English warrior kings of the 15th century. He was born at Monmouth, Wales, in the tower above the gatehouse of Monmouth Castle, and reigned as King of England from 1413 to 1422....
     - Kenneth Branagh
    Kenneth Branagh

    Kenneth Charles Branagh is an Emmy Award-winning, Academy Award-nominated actor and film director from Northern Ireland....
  • Duke of Gloucester
    Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester

    Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester , "son, brother and uncle of kings", was the fourth and youngest son of King Henry IV of England by his first wife, Mary de Bohun....
     Brother to the King - Simon Shepherd
    Simon Shepherd

    Simon Shepherd is a British actor...
  • Duke of Bedford Brother to the King - James Larkin
  • Duke of Exeter, Uncle to the King - Brian Blessed
    Brian Blessed

    Brian Blessed is an England actor, author and adventurer....
  • Westmoreland
    Ralph Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland

    File:Neville.svg?Ralph de Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland was born in Raby Castle, County Durham, England, the son of John Neville, 3rd Baron Neville de Raby and Maud Percy....
     - Paul Gregory
  • Archbishop of Canterbury
    Henry Chichele

    Henry Chicheley , Archbishop of Canterbury, founder of All Souls College, Oxford, was born at Higham Ferrers, Northamptonshire, in 1363 or 1364....
     - Charles Kay
    Charles Kay

    Charles Kay is an England actor....
  • Bishop of Ely
    John Fordham

    John Fordham was Bishop of Durham and Bishop of Ely.He was keeper of the privy seal of Richard II of England from 1376 to 1377 and Dean of Wells before being named Lord Privy Seal in June of 1377....
     - Alec McCowen
    Alec McCowen

    Alexander Duncan "Alec" McCowen Order of the British Empire, is an English actor, best known for his strikingly individual stage performances in modern and classical roles including William Shakespeare....
  • Earl of Cambridge
    Richard of Conisburgh, 3rd Earl of Cambridge

    Richard of Conisburgh, 3rd Earl of Cambridge was the younger son of Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York and Isabella of Castile, Duchess of York....
    , Traitor - Fabian Cartwright
  • Lord Scrope, Traitor - Stephen Simms
  • Sir Thomas Grey, Traitor - Jay Villiers
  • Sir Thomas Erpingham
    Thomas Erpynham

    Sir Thomas Erpingham, Knight of the Garter was an England knight who became famous as the commander of Henry V's archery at the Battle of Agincourt....
    ,Officer in King Henry's Army - Edward Jewesbury
  • Fluellen
    Fluellen

    Fluellen is a fictional character in the play Henry V by William Shakespeare. Fluellen is a Welsh people Captain , a leader of a contingent of troops in the small Medieval warfare of the England King Henry V of England while on campaign in France in the Middle Ages during the Hundred Years' War....
    ,Officer in King Henry's Army- Ian Holm
    Ian Holm

    Sir Ian Holm Order of the British Empire is an England award-winning actor known for his stage work and for many film roles, including the hobbit Bilbo Baggins in the first and third films of the The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, Father Vito Cornelius in The Fifth Element and the android Ash in Alien ....
  • Gower,Officer in King Henry's Army- Daniel Webb
  • Jamy,Officer in King Henry's Army- Jimmy Yuill
    Jimmy Yuill

    Jimmy Yuill is a Scottish people actor. Originally hailing from Golspie in the far north of Scotland, he went on to become a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company and then later of the Renaissance Theatre Company....
  • Macmorris,Officer in King Henry's Army- John Sessions
    John Sessions

    John Gibb Marshall , better known by the stage name John Sessions, is a Scotland actor and comedian. He is known for comedy improvisation in television shows such as Whose Line Is It Anyway?; as a panelist on QI and as a character actor in numerous films, both in Britain and Hollywood....
  • Bates, Soldiers in King Henry's Army - Shaun Prendergast
    Shaun Prendergast

    Shaun Prendergast is a United Kingdom actor and writer. Prendergast has made hundreds of appearances in television, film and on radio and written extensively for the stage, television, radio and film....
  • Court, Soldiers in King Henry's Army - Pat Doyle
  • Williams, Soldiers in King Henry's Army - Michael Williams
  • Bardolph - Richard Briers
    Richard Briers

    Richard David Briers, Order of the British Empire is an English people actor whose career has encompassed the theatre, television, film and radio....
  • Nym - Geoffrey Hutchings
    Geoffrey Hutchings

    Geoffrey Hutchings is a British actor from Theatre, movies and television.He studied French language and Physical Education at Birmingham University before he became a member of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts and the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1968....
  • Pistol - Robert Stephens
    Robert Stephens

    Sir Robert Stephens was a leading actor in the early years of England's Royal National Theatre....
  • Sir John Falstaff in the Shakespearian plays or Sir John Fastolf
    John Fastolf

    Sir John Fastolf, Order of the Garter, was an England soldier during the Hundred Years War, who has enjoyed a more lasting reputation as in some part being the prototype of Shakespeare's Sir John Falstaff....
     in real life - Robbie Coltrane
    Robbie Coltrane

    Robbie Coltrane, Order of the British Empire , is a Scottish actor, comedian and author....
  • Boy - Christian Bale
    Christian Bale

    Christian Charles Philip Bale is an English people actor whose film credits include American Psycho , Batman Begins, The Dark Knight , The Prestige , 3:10 to Yuma , and the upcoming film Terminator Salvation, in which he will play the role of John Connor....
  • Mistress Quickly - Judi Dench
    Judi Dench

    Dame Judith Olivia Dench, Order of the Companions of Honour, Order of the British Empire, Royal Society of Arts is an England actress. She has won nine BAFTAs, seven Laurence Olivier Awards, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, an Academy Award, two Golden Globe Awards's and a Tony Award....
  • Charles VI of France
    Charles VI of France

    Charles VI , called the Well-loved and the Mad , was the List of French monarchs from 1380 to 1399, as a member of the House of Valois....
     - Paul Scofield
    Paul Scofield

    David Paul Scofield, Order of the Companions of Honour, Order of the British Empire was an England award-winning actor of stage and screen. Noted for his distinctive voice and delivery, Scofield received an Academy Award and a BAFTA Award for his performance as Sir Thomas More in the 1966 in film film A Man for All Seasons , a reprise of...
  • Louis
    Louis, Dauphin of France (1397-1415)

    Louis, Dauphin of France and Duke of Guyenne was a younger son of Charles VI of France and Isabella of Bavaria-Ingolstadt. He was the third child of his parents to hold the title Dauphin of France , holding it from the death of his older brother in 1401, when he was likewise made Duke of Aquitaine ....
    , the Dauphin - Michael Maloney
    Michael Maloney

    Michael Maloney is an England actor.Born in Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, Maloney's first television appearance was as Peter Barkworth's teenage son in the 1979 drama series, Telford's Change....
  • Dukes of Burgundy - Harold Innocent
    Harold Innocent

    Harold Innocent was a United Kingdom actor who appeared in many film and television roles.In 1969 he appeared in the pilot episode of Randall and Hopkirk in the episode My Late Lamented Friend and Partner as a hit man....
  • Duke of Orleans
    Charles, duc d'Orléans

    Charles of Valois was Duke of Orl?ans from 1407, following the murder of his father, Louis of Valois, Duke of Orl?ans on the orders of John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy....
     - Richard Clifford
  • Grandpre, French Lord - Colin Hurley
  • Constable
    Charles d'Albret

    File:Armoiries Albret moderne.pngCharles d'Albret was Constable of France two different times: from 1402 until 1411, and again from 1413 until 1415....
     - Richard Easton
    Richard Easton

    Richard Easton is a Canadian actor. He is best known in for his portrayal of Brian Hammond in the 1970s BBC serial The Brothers ....
  • Mountjoy, a French Herald - Christopher Ravenscroft
    Christopher Ravenscroft

    Christopher Ravenscroft is an England actor, best known for his recurring role as DI Mike Burden in ITV's adaptations of Ruth Rendell's Inspector Wexford mysteries....
  • Katharine
    Catherine of Valois

    Catherine of Valois was the Queen consort of England from 1420 until 1422. She was the daughter of King Charles VI of France, wife of King Henry V of England, mother of King Henry VI of England, and through her secret marriage with Owen Tudor, the grandmother of King Henry VII of England....
    , Daughter to Charles and Isabel - Emma Thompson
    Emma Thompson

    Emma Thompson is a two-time Academy Award-, Emmy Award-, BAFTA Award- and Golden Globe-winning English actress, comedian, and screenwriter. She is also a patron of the Refugee Council....
  • Alice, a Lady attending on Katharine - Geraldine McEwan
    Geraldine McEwan

    Geraldine McEwan is a BAFTA Awards-winning England actor, with a diverse and successful history in theatre, film and television. From 2004-2009 she appeared as Miss Marple, the Agatha Christie sleuth, for the series Marple shown on PBS in the United States...
  • Governor of Harfleur - David Lloyd Meredith
  • Messenger - David Parfitt
    David Parfitt

    David Parfitt is a film producer and actor. He won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 1998 for Shakespeare in Love.He was awarded a Honorary Doctorate of Arts from the University of Sunderland in 1999, and retains strong links with his home city and is a supporter of Sunderland AFC....
  • Warwick
    Richard de Beauchamp, 13th Earl of Warwick

    Richard de Beauchamp, 13th Earl of Warwick was an England medieval nobleman and military commander....
     - Nicholas Ferguson
    Nicholas Ferguson

    Nicholas Ferguson born June 2, 1938 in London, United Kingdom, is an artist and Television director....
  • John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury
    John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury

    John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury was an important England military commander during the Hundred Years' War, as well as the only House of Lancaster Constable of France....
     - Tom Whitehouse
  • Duke of Berry - Nigel Greaves
  • Bretagne - Julian Gartside
  • 1st Soldier - Mark Inman
  • 2nd Soldier - Chris Armstrong
  • Child - Calum Yuill


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