John Gielgud

as Carr Gomm

as Lord Irwin

as King Arthur (voice) (uncredited)

as Mr. Beddoes

as The Pope

as Oswald

as Master of Trinity

as Nerva

as Merlin (voice)

as Cecil Parkes

as Foster

as Priam

as Hobson

as King Constant

as Mr. Touchett

as Henry IV

as Cassius

as Sunflower

as Sharif El Gariani

as King Louis VII of France

as Colonel Carbury

as Prime Minister

as Dr Henry Doyle

as Hogarth (archive footage) (uncredited)

as Richard Ashenden / Edgar Brodie

as Hobson

as St. John

as Self - Interviewee

as Lord Hinksey

as Professor of Light

as Prospero

as George, Duke of Clarence

as Headmaster

as The Elder Pope

as Lord Raglan

as Edward 'Ned' Ryder

as Clive Langham

as Farrell

as Pope Pius XII

as Stimme Gottes

as Self (archive footage)

as Lord Wakering

as Jelks

as Count Leopold Von Berchtold

as Dr. Abraham Esau

as Sir Adrian Chappie

as Sir Leonard Darwin

as Mock Turtle

as Sir Francis Hinsley

as Gillenormand

as Julius Caesar

as Chang

as Pierre Robillard

as Aaron Jastrow

as Chief Constable

as Charmolue

as Brigadier Tomlinson

as Abdu-Hamdi

as Self

as Meecham

as Sir Simon de Canterville

as Doge di Venezia

as Marquis of Caterhan

as Earl of Warwick

as Cornelius Cardew

as Hogarth

as Hamlet

as Self

as Self

as Self - Guest

as Duke de Charles

as Chorus

as Reverend Jones

as John Lasocki

as Narrator (English version) (voice)

as De Lacey

as The Old Cardinal

as Various Roles

as Herbert G. Muskett

as The Doctor

as Cardinal Wolsey

as Head of Intelligence

as Cavagnari

as Sir Gordon Munday

as The Protagonist

as Harry

as The Preacher

as Self

Role: Writer

as Curt Valayan

as Theodore Woodward

as The Ghost

as Haverford Downs

as Pfistermeister

as Chorus

as The Writer

Role: Writer

as Harry

as Chorus

as Self (archive footage)

as Clinton-Meek

as St. John Clarke

as Eddie Loomis

as Ghost (voice)

as Virgil

as Rich Man

as Self

as Chorus

as Inigo Jollifant

as Edward Moulton-Barrett

as Harold L. Streeter

as Drechsler

as Chief Constable

as Gabriel Quantara

as Lord Durrisdeer

as Spooner

as Self

as Self

as Uncle Willie

as Lord Sissal

as Sydney Cockerell

as John of Gaunt

as Cockburn

as Self

as Narrator

as King Hamlet's Ghost (archive footage)

as Disraeli

as John Middleton Murry

as Herbert Dreuther

as Lord Henry Wotton

as Tieresias

as Self (Voice)

as Self

as Self - Presenter

as Stephen Dawlish

as Albert Speer Sr.

as Jasper Swift

as Eddie Loomis

as Gaev

as Self (archive footage)

as Henri Dubois

as British Lord

as Tiresias

as Narrator

as Narrator (voice)

as Virgil (voice)

as Barbablù

as Self

as The Ghost

as Self - The Protagonist ("Catastrophe")

as Self

as Self

as Virgil(voice)

as Self

as Self

as Self - on the set of 'The Shooting Party' (uncredited)

as Inquisitor

as Various

as Rich Man

as Self

as Chorus

as Captain Shotover

as Narrator

as Narrator (voice)

as Nikolai ivanov

as Drechsler