John Mills

as Self – Interviewee

as Gus the Theatre Cat

as Sir Edward Cleghorn

as De Lacey

as Brig. Dougal Munro

as Sir Lawrence Dobson

as Montgomery Bell

as Jim Bloggs (voice)

as Lewis Serrocold

as Dr. John H. Watson / Narrator

as Cambridge

as Lord Chelmsford

as Sir Henry Bartle Frere

as Scudder

as Thomas Lindmer

as Inspector Carson

as Mike McAllister

as Cleon Doyle

as Canning

as General Kitchner

as Mr. Parker

as Michael

as Sir Philip MacDonald

as Field Marshall Sir Douglas Haig

as Lord William Hamilton

as Inspector Franz Bulon

as Colonel Stuart Valois

as Ezra Fitton

as Masterman Finsbury

as Smedley-Taylor

as General Boyd

as Tommy Tyler

as Maitland

as Lt. Col. Clifford Southey

as Jacko Palmer

as Father Michael Keogh

as Father

as Lt. Col. Basil Barrow (Battalion Commander)

as Superintendent Graham

as Major Harvey

as Captain Anson

as Cpl Tubby Binns

as Dr. Howard Latimer

as Supt. Mike Halloran

as Platon Karataev

as Commandant Fraser

as Albert Parkis

as Pat Reid

as William Mossop

as Phillip Davidson

as Terence Sullivan

as Lt. Cmdr. Armstrong

as Bassett

as Alfred Polly

as Captain R.F. Scott R.N.

as Jim Ackland

as George Boswell

as Pip

as Pilot Officer Peter Penrose

as Jim Colter

as Billy Mitchell

as Lt. Taylor RN

as Ordinary Seaman Blake / Shorty Blake

as Flt·Lieut. Perry

as Peter Colley as a Young Man

as Jim Connor

as Ernest Elton