Michel Simon

as Jean Lemaître

as Père Jules

as Papa Boul

as Zabel

as Priape Boudu

as Jacquier

as Maurice Legrand

as Pépé

as Monsieur Hire

as Paul Louis Victor Braconnier

as Irwin Molyneux, alias Félix Chapel

as Mephistopheles / Old Prof. Henri Faust

as Attorney Zorn

as Lemel, le professeur de dessin

as Alboise

as Master

as Jo

as Jérôme Chambard

as Ernest Cabrissade, eternal understudy

as Chouilloux

as Prof. Dr. Abel

as Jérôme Pomino

as Récitant / Narrator (voice)

as Un Invité (Prologue)

as Noël Malpiaz

as Albert Ménard-Lacoste / Alain Ménard-Lacoste

as Zizi

as Nick Marino

as Mr. Gaetan Le Sentencier

as Doctor Michel Ancelin

as Locker Attendant

as Padre Silvio

as Colonel Nanar, du cadre de réserve

as Pierre Verger, « Monsieur Taxi »

as Auguste Bard

as Joseph Turlot

as Lespara

as Commissioner Jules Maigret (segment "Le témoignage d'un enfant de choeur")

as Lucien Bertal / Léonard, his understudy / Banquo

as Le Grognard

as Senator Fabius Severus

as Charles-Edmond Larmentiel

as Commissaire Bernard

as Baudu

as Oscar Lyssenhop

as Michel Quercy

as Cavazza

as Self

as Gaston Lebeau

as Michel Lemaret

as Achille Baluchet

as Alcide Garonne

as Vautrin

as Maurice Martin, concierge d'immeuble

as Picking, knife-throwing artist

as Captain Palmer

as M. Bodeletz

as Monsieur Jourdain

as Le vieux Jéricho

as Michel

as Josserand

as Bou Rezza

as Inspector Boucheron

as Diogène, Monseigneur de Beaupré & Lacouret

as Pierrot

as Counr Edouard de Bourgogne, aka 'L'Escargot'

as Le capitaine Simon

as Il barone Scarpia

as Self

as Léon

as Professor Charles Buisson

as Self - Interviewee

as Labrosse

as Shylock

as Self

as Self

as Butler

as Joseph "Jo" Guardini

as Erotologist

as Martinet

as Michel

as Le père Jules (archive footage)

as Monchablon, un médiocre acteur de tournées, qui fait la cour à Miquette

as Cidoni

as Clothaire dit Clo-Clo

as Lorédan

as Self (archive footage)

as Self

as Self

as Louis Compiegne

as Perrot-Joly

as Frècheville

as Baron de Beaupoil / his brother

as Baron Gobèche

as Eusèbe Bonbonneau

as Caïphe

as Sauvin

as Doizeau

as Rigoletto

as Benoit, chief guard

as Self (archive footage)

as General von Sayn-Wittgenstein

as Le tuteur

as Principal Commissioner Henri Dominique

as Prince de Sayn-Wittgenstein

as Joseph Ferdinand Anselme Midot,aka 'Le tord-cou'

as Laverdac

as Self

as Self (archive footage)

as Self (archive footage)

as Un récitant

as Self