Cultural depictions of Charles I of England

Literature

• Twenty Years After, by Alexandre Dumas, gives a fictionalized account of Charles I's downfall, trial and death. The book's fictional villain, Mordaunt, is depicted as the king's executioner.
• The Civil War period is seen through the eyes of the fictional Morland family in The Oak Apple, Volume 4 of The Morland Dynasty, a series of historical novels by author Cynthia Harrod-Eagles.

Film and television

• Russell Thorndike in the British silent film Henrietta Maria; or, The Queen of Sorrow (1923)
• Henry Victor in the British silent film The Royal Oak (1923), in which he also played Charles II
• Hugh Miller in The Vicar of Bray (1937)
• Robert Rietty in The Scarlet Blade (1963)
• Stephen MacDonald in the BBC TV drama series Witch Wood (1964)
• Kenneth Colley in a drama in the BBC TV series Thirty-Minute Theatre entitled Revolutions: Cromwell (1970)
• Alec Guinness in Cromwell (1970)
• Jeremy Clyde in the BBC TV drama series The Children of the New Forest (1977) and By the Sword Divided (1983)
• Stephen Fry in the BBC TV comedy short The Cavalier Years (1988), with......
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