 | Charles Laughton als Henry Horatio Hobson |
 | John Mills als William Mossop |
 | Brenda De Banzie als Maggie Hobson |
 | Daphne Anderson als Alice Hobson |
 | Prunella Scales als Vicky Hobson |
 | Richard Wattis als Albert Prosser |
 | Derek Blomfield als Freddy Beenstock |
 | Helen Haye als Mrs. Hepworth |
 | Joseph Tomelty als Jim Heeler |
 | Julien Mitchell als Sam Minns |
 | Gibb McLaughlin als Tudsbury |
 | Philip Stainton als Denton |
 | Dorothy Gordon als Ada Figgins |
 | Madge Brindley als Mrs. Figgins |
 | John Laurie als Dr. McFarlane |
 | Raymond Huntley als Nathaniel Beenstock |
| Jack Howarth als Tubby Wadlow |
| Herbert C. Walton als Printer |
 | Edie Martin als Old Lady Buying Shoelaces (uncredited) |
| Leonard Sharp als Tailor who rents shop to William Mossop (uncredited) |
| Robert Brooks Turner als Beanstock Worker Who Finds Hobson in Cellar (uncredited) |
| David Lean | Director |
| Harold Brighouse | Theatre Play |
| Wynyard Browne | Screenplay |
| Jack Hildyard | Director of Photography |
| Peter Taylor | Editor |
| Tony Sforzini | Makeup Artist |
| John Armstrong | Costume Design |
| David Lean | Producer |
| Malcolm Arnold | Original Music Composer |
| George Partleton | Makeup Artist |
| David Lean | Screenplay |
| Adrian Pryce-Jones | Assistant Director |
| Wilfred Shingleton | Art Direction |
| John Palmer | Production Manager |
| Norman Spencer | Screenplay |
| Norman Spencer | Associate Producer |
| Ken Ritchie | Boom Operator |
| Margaret Townsend | Production Secretary |
| Ray Hearne | Still Photographer |
| Maggie Unsworth | Continuity |
| Muir Mathieson | Music Director |
| William Hutchinson | Assistant Art Director |
| Julia Squire | Costume Supervisor |
| Red Law | Sound Recordist |
| Peter Newbrook | Camera Operator |
| Buster Ambler | Sound Recordist |
| John Cox | Sound Supervisor |
| Gladys Atkinson | Hairdresser |
| Barbara Hopkins | Sound |
| Alan Hall | Clapper Loader |
