Laurence Olivier

Field Marshal Sir John French

Vanessa Redgrave

Sylvia Pankhurst

Maggie Smith

Music Hall Star

John Mills

Field Marshall Sir Douglas Haig

Corin Redgrave

Bertie Smith

Maurice Roëves

George Smith

Ian Holm

President Poincare

Juliet Mills

Nurse

Michael Bates

Drunk Lance Corporal

Edward Fox

Aide to Field-Marshal Haig

Dirk Bogarde

Stephen

Jean-Pierre Cassel

French Colonel

John Clements

Gen. von Moltke

John Gielgud

Count Leopold Von Berchtold

Jack Hawkins

Emperor Franz Josef

Kenneth More

Kaiser Wilhelm II

Michael Redgrave

Gen. Sir Henry Wilson

Ralph Richardson

Sir Edward Grey

Susannah York

Eleanor

Robert Flemyng

Staff Officer in Gassed Trench

Paul Daneman

Czar Nicholas II

Guy Middleton

Gen. Sir William Robertson

Angela Thorne

Elizabeth May 'Betty' Smith

Wendy Allnutt

Florence Victoria 'Flo' Smith

Colin Farrell

Harry Arnold Smith

Malcolm McFee

Frederick Percy 'Freddie' Smith

Paul Shelley

Jack Henry Smith

John Owens

Seamus Moore

Vincent Ball

Australian Soldier

Pia Colombo

Estaminet Singer

Isabel Dean

Sir John French's Lady

Christian Doermer

Fritz

Joe Melia

The Photographer

Nanette Newman

Nurse

Cecil Parker

Sir John

Natasha Parry

Sir William Robertson's Lady

Gerald Sim

Chaplain

Thorley Walters

Staff Officer

Anthony Ainley

3rd Aide

Peter Gilmore

Pte Burgess

Ben Howard

Pte Garbett

Norman Jones

Scottish Soldier

Angus Lennie

Scottish Soldier

Paddy Joyce

Irish Soldier

Harry Locke

Heckler

Ron Pember

Corporal

Marianne Stone

Mill Girl

Christine Noonan

Mill Girl (uncredited)

Derek Newark

Shooting Gallery Proprietor

Clifford Mollison

Heckler

Norman Bird

Training Sgt (uncredited)

Jeremy Child

Wealthy Young Man (uncredited)

Richard Davies

Sergeant in Burial Party (uncredited)

Stanley Lebor

Soldier (uncredited)

Jane Seymour

Chorus Girl (uncredited)

Wensley Pithey

Archduke Ferdinand (uncredited)

David Lodge

Recruiting Sergeant at Music Hall

Dorothy Reynolds

Heckler at Pankhurst Speech

Phyllis Calvert

Lady Dorothy Haig

Roy Beck

American GI (uncredited)

John Dunn-Hill

Irish Soldier (uncredited)

Charles Farrell

Policeman (uncredited)

Carole Gray

Chorus Girl (uncredited)

Paul Hansard

German Officer (uncredited)

John Hussey

Soldier on Balcony (uncredited)

Ruth Kettlewell

Duchess Sophie (uncredited)

Steve Plytas

Turkish Military Attaché (uncredited)

Guy Standeven

American Officer (uncredited)

Pippa Steel

Scoreboard Girl (uncredited)

Tony Vogel

German Soldier (uncredited)

John Woodnutt

British Officer (uncredited)