- Dirk Bogarde
- Lieutenant General Browning
- James Caan
- Staff Sergeant Dohun
- Michael Caine
- Lieutenant Colonel J.O.E. Vandeleur
- Sean Connery
- Major General Urquhart
- Edward Fox
- Lieutenant General Horrocks
- Elliott Gould
- Colonel Stout
- Gene Hackman
- Major General Sosabowski
- Anthony Hopkins
- Lieutenant Colonel Frost
- Hardy Krüger
- Major General Ludwig
- Laurence Olivier
- Doctor Spaander
- Ryan O'Neal
- Brigadier General Gavin
- Robert Redford
- Major Cook
- Maximilian Schell
- Lieutenant General Bittrich
- Liv Ullmann
- Kate Ter Horst
- Arthur Hill
- U.S. Medical Colonel
- Wolfgang Preiss
- Field Marshal Von Rundstedt
- Siem Vroom
- Underground Leader
- Eric Vant Wout
- Underground Leader's Son
- Mary Smithuysen
- Old Dutch Lady
- Marlies van Alcmaer
- Underground Leader's Wife
- Nicholas Campbell
- Captain Glass
- Christopher Good
- Major Carlyle
- Keith Drinkel
- Lieutenant Cornish
- Peter Faber
- Captain "Harry" Bestebreurtje
- Richard Attenborough
- Director
- Joseph E. Levine
- Producer
- Richard P. Levine
- Producer
- Michael Stanley-Evans
- Producer
- William Goldman
- Screenwriter
- John Addison
- Original Music
- Geoffrey Unsworth
- Cinematographer
- Antony Gibbs
- Film Editing
- Miriam Brickman
- Casting
- Terence Marsh
- Production Design
- Stuart Craig
- Art Director
- Alan Tomkins
- Art Director
- Roy Stannard
- Art Director
- Anthony Mendleson
- Costume Design
