Richard Burton as Hamlet

Hume Cronyn as Polonius

Alfred Drake as Claudius

Eileen Herlie as Gertrude

William Redfield as Guildenstern

George Rose as First Gravedigger

George Voskovec as Player King

Hugh Alexander as Cornelius / Second Gravedigger / English Ambassador

Philip Coolidge as Voltimand

Christopher Culkin as Player Queen

John Cullum as Laertes

Michael Ebert as Francisco / Fortinbras

Dillon Evans as Reynaldo / Osric / Fortinbras's Captain

Clement Fowler as Rosencrantz

Geoff Garland as Lucianus

John Gielgud as Ghost (voice)

John Hetherington as Player Prologue

Barnard Hughes as Marcellus / Priest

Linda Marsh as Ophelia

Robert Milli as Horatio

Frederick Young as Bernardo

Kate Beswick as Lady

Alex Giannini as Messenger

Claude Harz as Lord

Gerome Ragni as Attendant

Richard Sterne as Gentleman

Carol Teitel as Lady