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The Devil´s Crown (Trailer) with Chubby Oates 1978 

A short clip of comedian and actor Chubby Oates in "The Devil's Crown"-  This is an excerpt from Episode 7 - "Lion of Christendom"

 I will be bringing the full 13 part series to my channel in the next few days

 More about The Devil´s Crown

 The Devil's Crown was a BBC television series which dramatised the reigns of three medieval Kings of England: Henry II and his sons Richard the Lionheart and John Lackland. It is also known as La couronne du diable in French.

The series was shown in the United Kingdom in thirteen 55-minute episodes between 30 April and 23 July 1978.

 As a very brief explanation...Henry Plantagenet (later King Henry II), sees his opportunity to seize the crown of England and create a kingdom of law and order. The series stars Jane Lapotaire, Christopher Gable, John Duttine...

 More about the plot can be found on my playlist page here

The cast for this series is fairly huge so I will leave you with the main names and as you watch the series you will find each episode´s cast in the information box.  Hope you enjoy.

 Cast

 Brian Cox  as Henry II of England

Michael Byrne as Richard I of England

John Duttine as John, King of England

Jane Lapotaire as Eleanor of Aquitaine

Christopher Gable as Philip II of France

Ralph Arliss as Geoffrey, Archbishop of York

Charles Kay as Louis VII of France

Jack Shepherd as Thomas Becket

Kevin McNally as Henry the Young King

Lynsey Baxter as Isabella of Angoulême

Freddie Jones as Bertran de Born

Peter Benson as Blondel de Nesle

Roy Boyd as Ranulf de Glanville

Lucy Gutteridge as Alys, Countess of the Vexin

Michael Hawkins as Richard de Luci

Ian Hogg as William de Braose, 4th Lord of Bramber

Ralph Michael as Hubert Walter

Patrick Troughton as William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke

Simon Gipps-Kent as Arthur I, Duke of Brittany

Bob Goody as Guide

Zoë Wanamaker as Berengaria of Navarre

Lorna Yabsley as Alys, Countess of the Vexin

Susannah Fellows as Rosamund de Clifford