- Alec Guinness
- Sidney Stratton
- Joan Greenwood
- Daphne Birnley
- Cecil Parker
- Alan Birnley
- Michael Gough
- Michael Corland
- Ernest Thesiger
- Sir John Kierlaw
- Howard Marion-Crawford
- Cranford
- Henry Mollison
- Hoskins
- Vida Hope
- Bertha
- Patric Doonan
- Frank
- Duncan Lamont
- Harry
- Harold Goodwin
- Wilkins
- Colin Gordon
- Hill
- Joan Harben
- Miss Johnson
- Arthur Howard
- Roberts
- Roddy Hughes
- Green
- Stuart Latham
- Harrison
- Miles Malleson
- The Tailor
- Edie Martin
- Mrs. Watson
- Mandy Miller
- Gladdie
- Charlotte Mitchell
- Mill Girl
- Olaf Olsen
- Knudsen
- Desmond Roberts
- Mannering
- Ewan Roberts
- Fotheringay
- John Rudling
- Wilson
- Charles Saynor
- Pete
- Russell Waters
- Davidson
- Brian Worth
- King
- George Benson
- The Lodger
- Frank Atkinson
- The Baker
- Charles Cullum
- 1st Company Director
- F.B.J. Sharp
- 2nd Company Director
- Scott Harrold
- Express Reporter
- Jack Howarth
- Receptionist At Corland Mill
- Jack McNaughton
- Taxi Driver
- Judith Furse
- Nurse Gamage
- Billy Russell
- Nightwatchman
- Andy Alston
- Mill Worker
- Jack Arrow
- Mill Worker
- David Boyd
- Office Boy
- Jim Brady
- Mill Worker
- Harold Coyne
- Mill Worker
- Dan Cressey
- Lab Technician
- Alan Haines
- Reporter
- Laurence Hepworth
- Chauffeur
- Frank Howard
- Mill Worker
- Gertrude Kaye
- Mill Worker
- Jimmy Millar
- Mill Worker
- Arthur Mullard
- (uncredited)
- Joe Phelps
- Mill Worker
- Johnny Rossi
- Baker
- Carol Wolveridge
- Schoolgirl in Front of Class
