Producer and director Fred Zinnemann, as quoted in his autobiography, calls this the easiest movie he ever made, thanks to the extraordinary caliber of the crew, and the actors and actresses, and the way they worked together.
Playwright and screenwriter Robert Bolt borrowed the title from Robert Whittington, a contemporary of Sir Thomas More, who in 1520 wrote of him: "More is a man of an angel's wit and singular learning; I know not his fellow. For where is the man of that gentleness, lowliness, and affability? And, as time requireth, a man of marvelous mirth and pastimes, and sometime of as sad gravity: a man for all seasons."
To keep the budget under $2 million, all the cast members took salary cuts. The only cast members paid more than £10,000 were Orson Welles, Paul Scofield, and Susannah York.
Orson Welles used an exact duplicate of Cardinal Wolsey's official seal, authentic sheepskin parchment, and a quill pen.
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