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Becket   1964         N/R, 148 min. Genre: Drama Director: Peter Glenville   Cast: Richard Burton, Peter O'Toole, Donald Wolfit, John Gielgud, Pamela Brown, Martita Hunt, Sian Phillips, Paolo Stoppa, Gino Cervi, Felix Aylmer, David Weston, Percy Herbert, Christopher Rhodes, Inigo Jackson, Niall MacGinnis   Twelfth-century England is the setting for this insightful story. It involves the long friendship between King Henry II (Peter O'Toole) and Becket, the Archbishop of Canterbury (Richard Burton). Their friendship reaches a crisis when Becket must choose between his duties to God as Archbishop and his loyalties to the King. Among the several Academy Award nominations were Best Picture, Director, Actor (both Burton and O'Toole), and Supporting Actor (John Gielgud for his role as King Louis VII of France). Cast Richard Burton Thomas a Becket Peter O'Toole King Henry II Donald Wolfit Bishop Folliot John Gielgud King Louis VII of France Pamela Brown Queen Eleanor Martita Hunt Emress Matilda Sian Phillips Gw Paolo Stoppa Pope Alexander III Gino Cervi Cardinal Zambelli Felix Aylmer Archbishop of Canterbury David Weston Brother John Percy Herbert Baron Christopher Rhodes Baron Inigo Jackson Robert de Beaumont Niall MacGinnis Baron