Kenneth Branagh as Self / Narrator

Forrest J. Ackerman as Self

Michael F. Blake as Self

Ray Bradbury as Self

Lon Chaney Jr. as Self (archive footage)

Lon Chaney as Self (archive footage)

Ron Chaney as Self

Jackie Coogan as Self (archive footage)

Arthur Gardner as Self

Mary Hunt as Self

Sara Karloff as Self

Patsy Ruth Miller as Self

Budd Schulberg as Self

Malcolm Sebastian as Self (as Malcolm Sabiston)

Orson Welles as Self (archive footage)

Loretta Young as Self (voice)

Teresa Blake as Self

Edward Montagne as Self

Will Sheldon as Self

Tod Browning as Self (archive footage / uncredited)

Joan Crawford as Self (archive footage / uncredited)

Irving Thalberg as Self (archive footage / uncredited)

Waldemar Young as Self (archive footage / uncredited)