Alan Bates

as Dressler

as Alexander Leek

as Jennings

as Claudius

as Basil

as Ted Burgess

as Rupert Birkin

as Rudge Campbell

as Charles Crossley

as Jack Meehan

as Thomas Connolly

as Gabriel Oak

as Self

as Saul Kaplan

as Charles Plumpick

as Armand Bertier

as Antonius Agrippa

as Macready

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

as Victor 'Vic' Brown

as Storyteller

as The Man, Arthur Alan Blakey

as Frank Rice

as Felix Detweiler

as Jos Jones

as Stephen

as Malcolm Forrest

as H.J. Heidler

as John Fabian

as Rudi Von Sternberg

as Captain Jerry Jackson

as Yakov Bok

as James

as Captain Chris Baldry

as Eamon McCree

as Antonius Agrippa

as Sergei Diaghilev

as David Cornwallis

as Michael Baytes

as Frank Meadows

as Bri

as Re Enrico VIII

as Sir Hugo Coal

as Mick

as John

as Uncle Matthew

as Dr, Marsfeldt / Guru

as Ben Butley

as Self (1981 footage)

as Jimmy Brewster

as Col. Vershinin

as King George V

as Guy Burgess

as Andrew Shaw

as Harry

as Jethro

as Stewart

as Gayev

as Stewart

as John Mortimer

as John Malcolm / Maj. Pollock

as James

as Marcel Proust

as Self

as Lewis Black

as Major James Prentis (archival footage)

as Calpornius

as Dr. Alfred Jones

as Henry Sitchell

as Grigor Pecharin

as Major James Prentis VC

as Oliver

as Michael Henchard

as Self - Gabriel Oak (archive footage) (uncredited)

as Self (archive footage)

as Marcel Proust

as Claudius (archive footage)

as Reg Green

as Sir Jock Mellor

as Blair

as Narrator (voice)

as Joe Turrel

as Hamish Partt

as Sir William Phips

as Henry Sitchell

as Siegmund

as Self

as Tom

as Father Peter

as Archive

as Nicholas

as Hamish Partt

as Self

as John Fabian

as Josiah Bounderby