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Becket

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1964

148 minutes (2 hrs 28 mins)

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Directed by

Peter Glenville

Starring

Richard Burton · Peter O'Toole · John Gielgud · Gino Cervi · Paolo Stoppa · Donald Wolfit

Full cast & crew

Release dates

US release: 11th March 1964

France release: 23rd April 1964

Denmark release: 28th August 1964

Box Office Quickview

US box office

Box Office debut: 26th Jan '07
Debut position: 67
Highest position: 64
Debut gross: $7.9 Thousand
Total chart weeks: 7

Chart position history

UK box office

US box office

Global box office

Certificates

US
PG-13

Total grosses

UK total gross
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£0

US total gross
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$114.3 Thousand

Global total gross
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Director

Role

Peter Glenville

Directed By

Peter
O'Toole

Actor

Character

Richard Burton

Becket / Thomas Becket

Peter O'Toole

His King / King Henry II

John Gielgud

King Louis of France / King Louis VII of France

Gino Cervi

the Cardinal / Cardinal Zambelli

Paolo Stoppa

the Pope / Pope Alexander III

Donald Wolfit

Bishop Folliot

David Weston

Brother John

Martita Hunt

Empress Matilda

Pamela Brown

Queen Eleanor [of Aquitaine]

Percy Herbert

Baron

Sian Phillips

Gwendolen

Inigo Jackson

Robert de Beaumont

Felix Aylmer

Archbishop of Canterbury

Niall MacGinnis

Baron

Christopher Rhodes

Baron

John Phillips

Bishop of Winchester

Frank Pettingell

Bishop of York

Veronique Vendell

French prostitute

Jennifer Hilary

Peasant's Daughter

David Davenport

Hamilton Dyce

Bishop of Chichester

Peter Jeffrey

Baron

Michael Miller

Baron

Peter Prowse

Baron

Jack Taylor

Chris Adcock

Sergeant

Michael Anthony

Courtier

Geoffrey Bayldon

Brother Philip

Roy Beck

Young French boy

Dave Clark

Soldier

George Lane Cooper

Soldier

Ian Cullen

Servant

Ivor Dean

Monk

Guy Deghy

Minor Role

Paul Farrell

Farmer

Patrick Halpin

Monk

Laurie Heath

Boy

Rose Howlett

Farmer's Wife

Magda Konopka

Girl on Balcony

Gerald Lawson

English Peasant

Wilfrid Lawson

Old Soldier

Paul Layton

Boy

Tutte Lemkow

French Courtier

Linda Marlowe

Farmer's Daughter

John Moulder-Brown

Boy

Patrick Newell

William of Corbeil

Riggs O'Hara

Prince Henry

Frederick Piper

Monk

Dido Plumb

Man in Crowd

Steve Plytas

Cardinal

Robert Rietty

Alexander III

Alex Scott

Priest

Terence Soall

Minor Role

Victor Spinetti

French Tailor

Graham Stark

Pope's Secretary

Fred Stroud

Church Guard

Elizabeth Taylor

Village Extra with Blonde Wig

Royston Tickner

Royal Servant

Fred Wood

Congregation Member (at Bishops Service)

Edward Woodward

Clement