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The Canterbury Tales

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1972
 111 minutes (1 hrs 51 mins)

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Directed by

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Starring

Hugh Griffith · Laura Betti · Ninetto Davoli · Franco Citti · Josephine Chaplin · Alan Webb

Full cast & crew

Release dates

US release date US release: 30th May 1980
Italy release date Italy release: 2nd September 1972
France release date France release: 29th November 1972

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Director
Role
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Directed By
Actor
Character
Hugh Griffith
Sir January
Laura Betti
The Wife from Bath
Ninetto Davoli
Perkin
Franco Citti
The Devil
Josephine Chaplin
May
Alan Webb
Old Man
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Geoffrey Chaucer
J.P. Van Dyne
The Cook
Vernon Dobtcheff
The Franklin
Adrian Street
Fighter
Orla Pederson
Pilgrim
Derek Deadman
The Pardoner
Nicholas Smith
Friar
George Bethell Datch
Host of the Tabard
Dan Thomas
Nicholas
Michael Balfour
The Carpenter
Jenny Runacre
Alison
Peter Cain
Absalom
Daniele Buckler
Pilgrim
John Francis Lane
Greedy friar
Settimo Castagna
Angel
Athol Coats
Rich homosexual
Judy Stewart-Murray
Alice
Tom Baker
Jenkin
Oscar Fochetti
May's lover
Willoughby Goddard
Placebo
Peter Stephens
Justinus
Giuseppe Arrigio
Pluto / The God
Elisabetta Genovese
Prosperine
Gordon King
Chancellor
Patrick Duffett
Alan
Eamann Howell
John
Tiziano Longo
Simkin the Miller
Eileen King
Simkin's wife
Heather Johnson
Molly
Martin Whelar
Jack the Justice
John McLaren
Johnny the Grace
Edward Monteith
Dick the Sparrow
Kervin Breen
Franca Sciutto
Vittorio Fanfoni
Leonard S. Brooks
Businessman
Stephen Calcutt
The Groom
Phil Davis
2nd homosexual lover
Charles De la Tour
Inn-keeper
Francis De Wolff
The Bride's father
Michael Derrek
Robin
Andrew Dymock
Bill
V. Edwards
The Old Woman
Dorothy Everall
Perkin's mother
Diana Fisher
The Bride
Chris Greener
Sir Elephant
David Hatton
Poor homosexual
Judo Al Hayes
Fighter
Terry Hooper
L'allodoliere
Robert Brook Howard
Vicar of the Monestary
Karl Howman
1st homosexual lover
Richard Hughes
Administrator
Laurie Inch
Mary
Charlotte Kell
The Prioress
Pinky Martin
The Nun
Alan McConnell
Master Gervaso
Norman McGlen
Perkin's father
Peter McGregor
The Merchant
Hugh McKenzie-Bailey
Thomas
Roderick McLeod
Knight's Attendant
Anthony Moore
The Spy
Ken Muggleston
Doctor
Patrick Newell
Prior
Ray Parks
Sergeant
Martin Philips
Martin
Selwyn Roberts
The Knight
Anita Sanders
Thomas' wife
Marc Sinclair
Ensemble
Mary Stuart
Priest
Reg Stuart
4th Husband
Steve Whitton
Youth Without Name