W. Somerset Maugham as Himself

Basil Radford as Henry Garnet

Naunton Wayne as Leslie

Mai Zetterling as Jeanne

Ian Fleming as Ralph

Jack Raine as Thomas

Dirk Bogarde as George Bland

Cecil Parker as Colonel George Peregrine

Hermione Baddeley as Beatrice Sunbury

Honor Blackman as Paula

Angela Baddeley as Mrs. Garnet

James Robertson Justice as Branksome

Jack Watling as Nicky Garnet

Raymond Lovell as Sir Frederick Bland

Irene Browne as Lady Bland

Françoise Rosay as Lea Makart

Maurice Denham as Coroner

James Hayter as Foreman of the Jury

Bernard Lee as Ned Preston, a Prison Visitor

Frederick Leister as Prison Governor

George Cole as Herbert Sunbury

Mervyn Johns as Samuel Sunbury

Susan Shaw as Betty Baker Sunbury

Nora Swinburne as Mrs. Evie Katherine Peregrine

Lyn Evans as Bannock

Claud Allister as 1st. Club Man

Wilfrid Hyde-White as 2nd. Club Man

Ernest Thesiger as Henry Dashwood

Henry Edwards as Duke of Heverel

Linden Travers as Daphne

Felix Aylmer as Martin

Clive Morton as Henry Blane

Johnny Briggs as Boy on Common (uncredited)