W. Somerset Maugham as Himself

Basil Radford as Henry Garnet (segment "The Facts of Life")

Naunton Wayne as Leslie (segment "The Facts of Life")

Mai Zetterling as Jeanne (segment "The Facts of Life")

Ian Fleming as Ralph (segment "The Facts of Life")

Jack Raine as Thomas (segment "The Facts of Life")

Angela Baddeley as Mrs. Garnet (segment "The Facts of Life")

James Robertson Justice as Branksome (segment "The Facts of Life")

Jack Watling as Nicky Garnet (segment "The Facts of Life")

Nigel Buchanan as John (segment "The Facts of Life")

Jean Cavall as Cabaret Artist (segment "The Facts of Life")

Dirk Bogarde as George Bland (segment "The Alien Corn")

Honor Blackman as Paula (segment "The Alien Corn")

Raymond Lovell as Sir Frederick Bland (segment "The Alien Corn")

Irene Browne as Lady Bland (segment "The Alien Corn")

George Thorpe as Uncle John (segment "The Alien Corn")

Françoise Rosay as Lea Makart (segment "The Alien Corn")

Maurice Denham as Coroner (segment "The Alien Corn")

Mary Hinton as Aunt Maud (segment "The Alien Corn")

James Hayter as Foreman of the Jury (segment "The Alien Corn")

George Merritt as Prison Officer (segment "The Kite")

George Cole as Herbert Sunbury (segment "The Kite")

Bernard Lee as Ned Preston, a Prison Visitor (segment "The Kite")

Frederick Leister as Prison Governor (segment "The Kite")

David Cole as Herbert (as a boy) (segment "The Kite")

Hermione Baddeley as Beatrice Sunbury (segment "The Kite")

Mervyn Johns as Samuel Sunbury (segment "The Kite")

Susan Shaw as Betty Baker Sunbury (segment "The Kite")

Cyril Chamberlain as Reporter (segment "The Kite")

Cecil Parker as Colonel George Peregrine (segment "The Colonel's Lady")

Nora Swinburne as Mrs. Evie Katherine Peregrine (segment "The Colonel's Lady")

Lyn Evans as Bannock (segment "The Colonel's Lady")

Claud Allister as 1st. Club Man (segment "The Colonel's Lady")

Wilfrid Hyde-White as 2nd. Club Man (segment "The Colonel's Lady")

Ernest Thesiger as Henry Dashwood (segment "The Colonel's Lady")

Henry Edwards as Duke of Heverel (segment "The Colonel's Lady")

Linden Travers as Daphne (segment "The Colonel's Lady")

Felix Aylmer as Martin (segment "The Colonel's Lady")

Clive Morton as Henry Blane (segment "The Colonel's Lady")

J.H. Roberts as West (segment "The Colonel's Lady")

Cyril Raymond as Railway Passenger (segment "The Colonel's Lady")

John Salew as John Coleman (critic) (segment "The Colonel's Lady")

Margaret Withers as Gushing Woman (segment "The Colonel's Lady")

Yvonne Owen as 1st. Gossip (segment "The Colonel's Lady")

Margaret Thorburn as 2nd. Gossip (segment "The Colonel's Lady")

Hal Osmond as Bookshop Assistant (segment "The Colonel's Lady")

Ernest Butcher as Blane's Clerk (segment "The Colonel's Lady")

Johnny Briggs as Boy on Common (segment "The Kite")

Arthur Denton as Man on Common (segment "The Kite")

Marcel Poncin as Frenchman (segment "The Alien Corn")