- Clark Gable
- Col. Pieter Deventer
- Lana Turner
- Carla Van Oven
- Victor Mature
- 'The Scarf'
- Louis Calhern
- Gen. Ten Eyck
- O.E. Hasse
- Col. Helmuth Dietrich
- Wilfrid Hyde-White
- Gen. Charles Larraby
- Ian Carmichael
- Capt. Jackie Lawson
- Niall MacGinnis
- Blackie
- Nora Swinburne
- 'The Scarf's' Mother
- Roland Culver
- Gen. Warsleigh
- Leslie Weston
- 'Pop'
- Christopher Rhodes
- Chris
- Lily Kann
- Jan's Grandmother
- Brian Smith
- Jan
- Anton Diffring
- Capt. Von Stanger
- Richard Anderson
- John
- Basil Appleby
- Paratrooper
- Theodore Bikel
- German Sergeant
- Nicholas Bruce
- Dietrich's Lieutenant
- Wolf Frees
- Motorcycle Rider
- John Glenn
- Paratrooper Corporal
- Thomas Heathcote
- Paratrooper Corporal
- Glyn Houston
- Paratrooper Corporal
- Kenneth Hyde
- Instructor
- Carl Jaffe
- Major Plaaten
- Peter Martin
- Freddy Jackson
- Ferdy Mayne
- Luftwaffe Officer
- Arthur Mullard
- (uncredited)
- Reggie Nalder
- (uncredited)
- John Singer
- Paratrooper
- Peter Swanwick
- Fat Major
- Mona Washbourne
- Waitress
- John Wynn
- Paratrooper
