On screen
Cast
23 credited performers
Anthony Hopkins
Charles Dickens
Sybil Thorndike
Elizabeth Ball Dickens
Gladys Cooper
Mrs. Ternan
Joan Greenwood
Maria Beadnell
Stanley Holloway
Mr. Vuffin
Michael Wilding
Dolby
Mona Washbourne
Mrs. Jarley
Gordon Jackson
The Narrator (voice)
Arthur Lowe
John Dickens
Vivian Pickles
Mrs. Dickens
Nora Nicholson
Rosa Emma Drummond
Dandy Nichols
Mrs. Gamp
Freddie Jones
William Shaw
Patrick Cargill
Macready
Jenny Agutter
Young Maria Beadnall/Mary Hogarth/Ellen Ternan
Dorothy Reynolds
Mrs. Roylance/Mrs. Hogarth/Mrs. Prigg/Lady Holland
Gordon Rollings
Codlin/Mould/Ramsay
Jeffry Wickham
Lammert/Whitmore/John Black
Rhoda Lewis
Georgina Hogarth
Artwork unavailable
Ken Wynne
Mr. Ellis
Artwork unavailable
Jocelyn Britton
Kate Dickens (as Jocelyn Birdsall)
Artwork unavailable
Gregory Phillips
Smike
Artwork unavailable
Roland Pickering
Charles Dickens (as a child)