id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-9264 A Man for All Seasons - Wikipedia .html text/html 3611 341 76 A Man for All Seasons is a play by Robert Bolt based on the life of Sir Thomas More. An early form of the play had been written for BBC Radio in 1954, and a one-hour live television version starring Bernard Hepton was produced in 1957 by the BBC,[1] but after Bolt's success with The Flowering Cherry, he reworked it for the stage. The film version of the play ends with More's execution, followed by a narrator reading off the fates of the various characters involved (originally, this was dialogue spoken by the Common Man prior to the Tower of London Inquiry). Leo McKern played the Common Man in the West End version of the show, but was shifted to the role of Cromwell for the Broadway production – a role he later reprised in the film. In this production, the character of The Common Man was deleted by the director (as Bolt had done when adapting his play for the first film version).[5] ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-9264.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-9264.txt