On screen
Cast
489 credited performers
Donald Sinden
Andrew Pelham
Clive Swift
Inspector Waugh
Lee Montague
The Soldier
Leslie Sands
Andrew Bell, the Home Secretary
Charles Gray
Knox
Keith Barron
Terry O'Neil
Tenniel Evans
Padstow
John Castle
Frank
Kenneth Colley
Adolf Hitler
Amanda Barrie
Janet
Lyndon Brook
Adrian Phillips
Norman Rossington
Zinoviev
Hugh Burden
Husband
John Franklyn-Robbins
Mr. Cain
Julian Glover
Ron
David Collings
Sverdlov
Calvin Lockhart
Leonard
Brenda Bruce
Avis Abdey
Stephanie Bidmead
Alice
Geraldine Moffat
Susan
Ronald Lacey
Frankie Three
Barrie Ingham
Larry
Nigel Davenport
Robert Larkin
Peter Barkworth
Frank Cross
Leonard Rossiter
Sergeant Tax
Robin Chadwick
Police Constable White
Sydney Tafler
Alexander Rosticoff
John Collin
Sibley
Colin Blakely
Rick Taylor
Richard Pearson
Cloon
Brian Wilde
Shyster
George Cole
Caramel
Jimmy Gardner
Elderly Sam
Rosemary Leach
Josie
Michael Brennan
Leonard
Marius Goring
The Interrogator
Jeremy Child
Jack
Denys Graham
Police Constable
Donald Churchill
Henry Bulstrode
Mary Webster
Lyn
Ann Firbank
Sally Dix
Robert James
Ellis
Clive Revill
Character not listed
Harry Locke
Leslie Robbins
Nerys Hughes
Mavis Walters
Derek Francis
Mr. Rummins
Ray Brooks
The Man
Bob Monkhouse
Stephen Watson
Barbara Lott
Aunt Ada
Sheila Hancock
Vi
Edward Woodward
Arthur
Donal Donnelly
The Applicant
Diana Coupland
Ellen Pimblett
Glynn Edwards
George Harris
Reg Lye
Georgie
John Wood
Bone
Michael Goodliffe
The Minister
Donald Pleasence
J.G.
Trevor Bannister
Jacko
Sharon Duce
Mirabelle
Frances Cuka
Ellie
John Gregson
Jack
Betty Marsden
Ida Carey
Patrick Troughton
Justley
Alethea Charlton
Margot Winters
Rudolph Walker
Benjamin Kingara
John Alderton
Geoffrey Bell
John Bennett
Tadeusz
Frederick Jaeger
Denis
Dennis Waterman
'Jankers' Yates
Lally Bowers
Anne
Bridget Armstrong
Miss Dunnings
Stephen Murray
Captain Redfern
William Mervyn
Sir Eric Brown
Geoffrey Hughes
Chuck
Timothy Bateson
Big Ted
Peter Dyneley
Von Grauss
Geraldine McEwan
Denise Blundell
David Savile
Guy Norton
Dudley Sutton
Michael
Patrick Magee
Krapp
Brian Cox
Josef Stalin
Gwen Watford
Carla Hudson
Avis Bunnage
Rebecca Jarrett
Iain Cuthbertson
William Stead
Earl Cameron
Conley
John Carlisle
Father Bryant
James Culliford
Bob
Beatrix Lehmann
Mrs. Fennel
Donald Burton
Eric Holderness
Del Henney
Joe
Kenneth Cranham
Barry
Dinsdale Landen
Bob Purvis
Michael Bates
Captain Gambell
Hilary Mason
Lilian Lovell
Joss Ackland
The Applicant
Rachel Kempson
Miss Winton
Shelley Winters
Mrs. Bixby
Tessa Wyatt
Felicity
Emrys James
Alan Pritchard
Julia Foster
Rita
Tim Preece
Character not listed
Melvyn Hayes
Chivers
Roy Castle
Charlie
Ken Jones
Freddie
Faith Brook
Phyllis
Jo Rowbottom
Maureen
Terence de Marney
Flanders
Dan Jackson
Adzola
Gillian Lewis
Angela
Kenneth Griffith
Mr Rounds
Megs Jenkins
Miss Wellcome
Mary Kerridge
Miss Colduck
Alfred Burke
First Man
Dean Stockwell
The Man
Scott Forbes
Kender
John Junkin
Jeffrey
Leo McKern
Mark
Barry Jackson
Ed
Michael Graham Cox
Albert
David McKail
Fisher
Maurice Denham
Crowther
John Bailey
Walter Dix, MP
Clifton Jones
Pieter Amidou
Erik Chitty
Mr. Aylwood
Patricia Routledge
Beryl Turner
Prunella Scales
Marie
Barry Evans
Tommo
Harold Kasket
Barman
Harry Landis
Frank
Paul Angelis
Susie
Edward Fox
Pip Lester
Rupert Davies
Lomov
Barbara Miller
Mrs. Cloon
David Graham
Slade
Nigel Terry
Peter
Zienia Merton
Rachel
Robert Hardy
The Official
Clive Graham
Ronnie Thomas
Norman Bird
Arthur Pendlebury
Timothy West
Jack Campion
Ann Bell
Gillian
Julian Curry
Dr. Tim Izzard
Christopher Benjamin
Dr. Warren Burrows
Donald Gee
Ellis
James Laurenson
Michael
Patsy Rowlands
Jilly
Ron Moody
Cracker Carstairs
Michael Kitchen
Waller
Peter Sallis
Lumley
Oliver Cotton
Spy
Leon Lissek
Warder
Arthur Pentelow
Doctor
Leslie French
Melnic (uncredited)
Joseph Fürst
President Obotnik (uncredited)
Mary Duddy
Julia
Anna Perry
Nurse Susan Lloyd
Robin Bailey
Lt.-Col. Brandon-Venn
Michael Elwyn
Captain Swire
Patrick Godfrey
RAMC Orderly
Moray Watson
Bruce Johnson
Fiona Walker
Rosa
Oliver MacGreevy
Landlord
Jean Marsh
Alex
Garfield Morgan
Wolfe
Vernon Dobtcheff
Carpenter
Judy Parfitt
The Woman
Denholm Elliott
The Interviewer
Esmond Knight
President
Robert Lang
Minister
Colin Jeavons
Conspirator
Anne Blake
Mrs. Devaux
John Bloomfield
Mr. Abrams
Larry Cross
Doctor
Gary Bond
Simon
Peter Cushing
Leonard
Jacqueline Ellis
Myra Briggs
Joan Sims
Jill Watson
Maureen Toal
Josie
Joe Lynch
Kieron
Neil McCallum
Mr. Bixby
Roald Dahl
Narrator (voice)
George Murcell
Second Man
Bernard Lee
The Man
Margaret Tyzack
Esther
Shane Rimmer
Bud Burdine
Dudley Foster
Frank
Margaret Nolan
Eve
Jack MacGowran
Coates
Sonia Dresdel
Annie
William Lucas
Janni
Thomas Heathcote
Charlie Rice
Elizabeth Begley
Mother
Oliver Maguire
Phillip
Max Adrian
Norris
Anneke Wills
Julia
Victor Spinetti
George
Billie Whitelaw
Greta
Alec McCowen
Willie
John Ashley Hamilton
Leonard younger Brother
Phil Collins
Gwyn
Patricia Burke
Alice
Iain Anders
Kelly
Tony Selby
Danny
Jack Woolgar
Martin
Jeremy Young
Boss
Vivien Merchant
Ella
Joseph Brady
Ken
Milo O'Shea
Fred
Lynette Chappell
Janice
John Barrie
Nathan Pimblett
Renée Asherson
Miss Parks
David Bauer
Justin
Michael Gothard
Grady
Kathleen Byron
Eve Price
John Cater
Piggot
Mary Chester
Monica Piggot
Peter Birrel
The Man
Eleanor Bron
Helen
Jill Bennett
Mary Hass
John Osborne
Harry Steadman
Chela Matthison
Suzy
Maureen O'Brien
Louise Schofield
Marion Mathie
Margaret Schofield
Patrick Allen
Peter Roke
Bill Owen
Henry Jay
Daphne Anderson
Dot Robbins
Frank Finlay
The Man
Mary Morris
The Woman
John Carlin
Ambrose Charnock
Patrick Carter
Constable De'Ath
Yootha Joyce
Agnes
Andrée Melly
The Wife
John Stride
George Pollock
Anna Wing
Flora
Sheila Grant
Judy
Janet Munro
Carol
John Le Mesurier
Brian Turner
Sylvia Coleridge
Alice
Judy Cornwell
Ann
Valerie Gearon
Vera
John Woodnutt
Arthur Tyrrell
Hannah Gordon
Sheila
Jess Conrad
Davo
Jennifer Daniel
Dr. Melanie Majors
Frederick Bartman
Johnny One
Philip Stone
Henry Ingram
Alan MacNaughtan
David
Valerie White
Margaret
John Barrard
Gregoriuos
James Bolam
Muggles
Dilys Laye
Connie Blackwell
Paula Byrne
Mrs. Henge
Nick Edmett
Gerald
Kenneth Farrington
Maurice
Pearl Hackney
Hettie Magee
John Phillips
Mr. Tredgold
Diane Cilento
Penelope
Donald Eccles
Crouch
Michael Standing
Frank
Johnny Briggs
Ted Clayton
Jane Downs
Nora Johnson
Guy Doleman
The Man
Suzanne Neve
Secretary
Brian Coburn
Big Bill Bishop
Patrick Westwood
Bonkey Stone
John Barrett
Mr. Whybrew
Patrick Kavanagh
Colin
John Barcroft
Arvidsson
Hugh Dickson
Boss
Cyril Cusack
'Jumbo' Boylan
Ann Todd
The Woman
Pamela Brown
Lady Neville
Felicity Kendal
La Principessa
Alex Scott
The Father
Sean Caffrey
The young man
Keith Michell
Geoffrey
Elizabeth Shepherd
Olivia
Eleanor Summerfield
Aunt Enid
George Baker
Ernest Whipple
Ian Ogilvy
Peter
Jim Norton
Tom
Noel Johnson
Character not listed
Sheelagh Cullen
Eveline
Eileen Colgan
Miss Baggot
Jack Hedley
Carrados
Jan Holden
Elspet
David Carson
Ron Booth
Mona Hammond
Nurse Barnes
Anna Palk
Sally
Doris Hare
Mother
Michael Gough
Ted Warner
Dennis Alaba Peters
Joe Dibba
John Ronane
Elvis-Boy
Louise Pajo
Kathleen Kingara
Katherine Barker
Melanie
Richard Ng Yiu-Hon
Ly Tho
Cavan Kendall
Johann
Robert Ayres
Daddy
Brenda Peters
Mummy Jo
Ursula Howells
Ellen
Nigel Green
Colonel Willowby
Laurence Carter
Trooper Dobson
David Dundas
Dennis
Felicity Gibson
Jane
Jacqueline Bertrand
Comtesse de St. Pierre
George Pravda
Jicinov
Ernest Clark
Brigadier Glover
Geoffrey Palmer
Professor Wybrow
William Franklyn
Roy Haines
Richard Vernon
Colonel O'Dwyer
Martin Jarvis
Father Ramon
David Buck
Marcus
David Nettheim
Ben
Celia Bannerman
The Actress
Anthony Nicholls
The Bishop
Lelia Goldoni
The Girl
John Breslin
Professor Michael Thompson
Michael Gwynn
Thomas Glover
Zakes Mokae
Colonel Okpara
Willie Jonah
Biafran Corporal
Jeremy Lloyd
Bob
Denis DeMarne
Vano
Keith Baxter
Jim Garden
George Sewell
Nicholls
Jack Wild
Jackie
Eddie Byrne
The Priest
Murray Melvin
Wojciech
Miriam Margolyes
Voice
Michael Williams
The Prisoner
Robert Powell
Martin
Bernard Hepton
Mr Wood
Tom Baker
Corporal Schabe
David Barry
Gunther Goettling
Clive Francis
Dave
Libby Morris
The Hostess
Tony Bilbow
A Guest
Denise Buckley
Barbara
Paul Hardwick
Brien
John Gielgud
The Writer
Alec Guinness
The Executioner
Elizabeth Bennett
Miss. Land
Patrick Barr
The Rt. Hon. Anthony Croft MP
Harold Bennett
Mr. Granger
Jan Chappell
Lucy Mallow
Margaret Brady
Bett
Michael Robbins
Harris
Peter Cellier
Frazer Douglas
Ruth Trouncer
Enid Douglas
Harry Fowler
Freddie Field
Danny Green
Harry Truckle
James Villiers
Oscar
Roddy Maude-Roxby
Bob
Tutte Lemkow
Character not listed
Barbara Couper
Mrs. Lovell
Joe Gladwin
Walter
Michael Aldridge
Henry Shoreham
Sylvia Syms
Judy Marriott
Irene Prador
Liesel
John Woodvine
Schweiler
John Rees
George
Aubrey Richards
John
Maureen Pryor
Character not listed
Janet Key
BaBa
James Cossins
Tim Singleton
David Markham
Geffrey Lovell
Jack Shepherd
'Wing Nut' Williams
David Langton
James Hudson
Bernard Horsfall
Fidel Castro
Tom Conti
Che Guevara
Nicholas Amer
Universo Sanchez
Sam Kydd
Spike
Richard O'Callaghan
Frances
Mark Dignam
Sullivan
Dandy Nichols
Nancy Broughton
Ewan Hooper
The Bishop
Annette Crosbie
Woman
Victor Maddern
Graham
Joyce Carey
Mrs. Donald
Nadim Sawalha
Gardener
Rachel Gurney
Lady Decuman
Guy Middleton
Twin
Michael Trubshawe
Twin
Patrick Connor
Major Reshenkov
Paul Daneman
King of Egypt
Aspasia Papathanasiou
Helen of Troy
Willoughby Gray
Hopkins
Cheryl Gilham
Maid
Brian Peck
George
Nicholas Jones
Dai
Angharad Rees
Cissie
Nicol Williamson
Jim Fitch
Marianne Faithfull
Lonesome Sally
Geoffrey Sumner
Jack
Peter Attard
Davo
Prentis Hancock
MacKenna
Elisabeth Bergner
Natalyia
Robert Lee
Kim Lam Tut
Joe Melia
Hal
Hilda Braid
Hilda
Barbara Mitchell
Edith Henshaw
John Nettleton
Charles
Barbara Leigh-Hunt
Harriet
Peter Bennett
Man
Sean Barrett
Danny
Barry Keegan
Tommy
Jerome Willis
Haimendorf
Flora Robson
Mrs. Frobisher
Alfred Lynch
Barney
Alan Downer
Pearson
Jennifer Clulow
Rosemary Taylor
Helen Lindsay
Joanna Pelham
Cyril Luckham
Dr. Pelham
Paul Moriarty
Chris Pelham
Wanda Ventham
Jasmine
Paul Aston
Terence
Anna Cropper
Lynda
Mark McManus
Mick
Windsor Davies
Jarvis
Steven Berkoff
Bert
Sara Kestelman
The Woman
Norman Rodway
The Man
Trader Faulkner
Richard
Frank Windsor
Victor
Derek Anders
Harper
Daphne Slater
Miss Grant
Terence Longdon
Donald Fell
Miriam Karlin
Marcella Vankuchen
Sam Wanamaker
Solomon Ithimar, PhD
Hugh Griffith
Uncle Rollo
Clive Merrison
Ivor
Derek Newark
Wilf Hardiman
Dave Hill
Crunch
Michael Pennington
Martin
Eric Allan
Vinty
Shirley Knight
The Woman - Joyce
David Bradley
The Evangelist
Victor Henry
Rev. Gordon Webster
Madge Hindle
Joyce Webster
Peter Bayliss
Edward
John Neville
Jonathan
Michael Angelis
Mike
Jean Leppard
Linda Langston
Bob Peck
Moore
Noel Dyson
Mrs. Proctor
Carolyn Courage
Julie
Barry Foster
Phil
Peter Cook
Peter Trilby
Pauline Collins
The Girl
Jan Francis
Stephanie
Derek Godfrey
Jim
Googie Withers
Muriel Stokes
Michael Howarth
Alan
Roy Kinnear
Bag
Sheila Allen
Liz
Mona Washbourne
Mrs. Hudson
Hana Maria Pravda
Laura
Sebastian Shaw
The Judge
Brian Deacon
Daniel
Louisa Martin
Evelyn
David Dixon
Edwin
Peter Halliday
Tony Elliot
Paul Henry
Jim Johnson
Rachel Roberts
Gladys Taylor
Elizabeth Bell
Ella
David Swift
Les
Catherine Kessler
Kath
Mona Bruce
Mrs. Meadows
Karl Howman
Bennett
Gwen Cherrell
Mrs. Redfern
Peter Kerrigan
Charlie
Brian Glover
The Guard
Stephen Bone
The Boy
Philip Latham
Paul Fennel
Peter Vaughan
Coster
Bernard Spear
Mawson
Brian Godfrey
Bernard
Anthony Douse
Jepson
Alex Marshall
Miss Miles
Nick Bicât
John
Hugh Fraser
Wally
Ed Devereaux
Pulsford
Margaret Courtenay
Sophie
Ray Mort
Arnold Kid Boscoe
Alfred Fagon
Lucas
Merdelle Jordine
Sally
Stephen Whittaker
Joey
Antony Carrick
Correspondent
Sarah Lawson
Annie