On screen
Cast
40 credited performers
James Mason
Narrator
Kenneth Haigh
Sir Richard Francis Burton
John Quentin
John Hanning Speke
Barbara Leigh-Hunt
Isabel Arundell
Michael Gough
David Livingstone
André van Gyseghem
Sir Roderick Murchison
Ian McCulloch
Captain James Grant
Norman Rossington
Samuel Baker
Artwork unavailable
Seth Adagala
Bombay
Artwork unavailable
Salim Mohamed
Sheik Snay
David Firth
Lawrence Oliphant
Keith Buckley
Henry Morton Stanley
Artwork unavailable
Oliver Litondo
King Mutesa
Artwork unavailable
Martin Echitemi
Kalulu
Catherine Schell
Florence Baker
Artwork unavailable
Elizabeth Proud
Blanche Arundell
Artwork unavailable
Dorothy Black
Mrs Arundell
Doran Godwin
Louisa Segrave
Edward Burnham
Colonel Sykes
Artwork unavailable
Robin Logan-Reed
Saunders
Artwork unavailable
Douglas Mitchell
Herne
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Neil Brierley
Stroyan
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Claire Benjamin
Persian Girl
James Warwick
Reporter
Artwork unavailable
John DeVaut
Reporter
Artwork unavailable
John Gatrell
Monckton-Milnes
Hedger Wallace
Fuller
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Andrew Robertson
Swinburne
John Wentworth
Doctor
Kenneth Benda
Sir Henry Rawlinson
Artwork unavailable
Richard Sutcliffe
William Henn
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David Aston
John Kirk
Bob Sessions
Gordon Bennett
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Ali Salim
Sheik Ben Ali
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Robert Kaman
Chumah
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Mohamed Said
Susi
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Lenny Juma
Safeni
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David Field
Frank Pocock
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Will Knightley
Dr Baker
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Brian Gear
Priest