Anthony Hopkins
(Charles Dickens)
Gordon Jackson
(The Narrator (voice))
Arthur Lowe
(John Dickens)
Vivian Pickles
(Mrs. Dickens)
Sybil Thorndike
(Elizabeth Ball Dickens)
Nora Nicholson
(Rosa Emma Drummond)
Stanley Holloway
(Mr. Vuffin)
Mona Washbourne
(Mrs. Jarley)
Dandy Nichols
(Mrs. Gamp)
Freddie Jones
(William Shaw)
Patrick Cargill
(Macready)
Joan Greenwood
(Maria Beadnell)
Gladys Cooper
(Mrs. Ternan)
Michael Wilding
(Dolby)
Jenny Agutter
(Young Maria Beadnall/Mary Hogarth/Ellen Ternan)
Dorothy Reynolds
(Mrs. Roylance/Mrs. Hogarth/Mrs. Prigg/Lady Holland)
Ken Wynne
(Mr. Ellis)
Gordon Rollings
(Codlin/Mould/Ramsay)
Jeffry Wickham
(Lammert/Whitmore/John Black)
Jocelyn Britton
(Kate Dickens (as Jocelyn Birdsall))
Rhoda Lewis
(Georgina Hogarth)
Gregory Phillips
(Smike)
Roland Pickering
(Charles Dickens (as a child))