page_title: An Age of Kings
section_title: "Henry VI: The Rabble from Kent"
hierarchical_section_title: An Age of Kings / The episodes / "Henry VI: The Rabble from Kent"
caption_attribution_description: English: Portrait of Patrick Garland inside the stage door of Apollo Theatre London during production of 'Forty Year On'
context_page_description: An Age of Kings is a fifteen-part serial adaptation of the eight sequential history plays of William Shakespeare, produced by the BBC in 1960. At the time, the show was the most ambitious Shakespearean television adaptation ever made, and was a critical and commercial success in both the UK and the US.
context_section_description: First transmitted: 22 September 1960
  Running time: 60 minutes
  Content: 2 Henry VI from Act 3, Scene 2 onwards (beginning with the murder of the Duke of Gloucester).
  Alterations: the murder of Gloucester is shown, whereas in the text, it happens off-stage. The characters of both George Plantagenet and Edmund Plantagenet are introduced just prior to the First Battle of St Albans, whereas in the text, neither character is introduced until 3 Henry VI (Edmund in Act 1, Scene 3; George in Act 2, Scene 2). Additionally, Edmund is played by an adult actor, whereas in the text, he is a child. Buckingham is killed on screen. In the text, his fate remains unknown until the opening lines of 3 Henry VI, where it is revealed he was killed by Edward.
  John Ringham as Duke of Gloucester
  Terence Lodge as Murderer
  Adrian Brine as Murderer
  Patrick Garland as Murderer
  Edgar Wreford as Duke of Suffolk
  Terry Scully as King Henry the Sixth
  Mary Morris as Queen Margaret
  Robert Lang as Cardinal Beaufort
  Alan Rowe as Duke of Somerset
  Frank Windsor as Earl of Warwick
  Gordon Gostelow as  Earl of Salisbury
  John Murray-Scott as Vaux
  David Andrews as A Sea-Captain
  John Ringham as Master
  Derek Ware as Master's Mate
  John Greenwood as Gentleman
  Jeremy Bisley as Gentleman
  Adrian Brine as Walter Whitmore
  Timothy Harley as George Bevis
  Tony Garnett as John Holland
  Esmond Knight as Jack Cade
  Anthony Valentine as Dick the Butcher
  Terence Lodge as Smith the Weaver
  Terry Wale as The Clerk
  Barry Jackson as Michael
  Leon Shepperdson as Sir Humphrey Stafford
  John Murray-Scott as Brother to Stafford
  Kenneth Farrington as Duke of Buckingham
  John Warner as Lord Say
  John Greenwood as Messenger
  Jeremy Bisley as Messenger
  Derek Ware as Soldier
  John Barcroft as Lord Clifford
  Jerome Willis as Young Clifford
  Jeffry Wickham as Alexander Iden
  Jack May as  Duke of York
  Julian Glover as Edward
  Patrick Garland as George
  Paul Daneman as Richard
  Terry Wale as Edmund
caption: Patrick Garland in 1969. Having played the important role of Henry V's brother John, Duke of Bedford in the early episodes, Garland played the equally important role of Richard III's brother George, Duke of Clarence in later episodes.
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