Arthur Lowe as Captain George Mainwaring

John Le Mesurier as Sergeant Arthur Wilson

Clive Dunn as Lance Corporal Jack Jones

John Laurie as Private James Frazer

James Beck as Private Joe Walker

Arnold Ridley as Private Charles Godfrey

Ian Lavender as Private Frank Pike

Liz Fraser as Mrs. Mavis Pike

Bernard Archard as Major General Fullard

Derek Newark as Sergeant Major Dawkins

Bill Pertwee as A.R.P. Warden Hodges

Frank Williams as Reverend Timothy Farthing

Edward Sinclair as Verger Henry Yeatman

Anthony Sagar as Police Sergeant

Pat Coombs as Mrs. Hall

Roger Maxwell as General Wilkinson

Paul Dawkins as Nazi General

Sam Kydd as Nazi Orderly

Michael Knowles as Staff Captain

Fred Griffiths as Bert King

John Baskcomb as Mayor

George Roubicek as German Radio Operator

Scott Fredericks as Nazi Photographer

Ingo Mogendorf as Nazi Pilot

Franz Van Norde as Franz

John Henderson as Elliott

Harriet Rhys as Miss Janet King

Dervis Ward as A.A. Man

Robert Raglan as Inspector Hardcastle

John D. Collins as Lieutenant Short

Alan Haines as Captain Crisp

Desmond Cullum-Jones as Private Desmond

Colin Bean as Private Sponge

Frank Godfrey as Private

Freddie Wiles as Private

Freddie White as Private

Leslie Noyes as Private Lesley

David Fennell as Private

Hugh Hastings as Private Hastings

George Hancock as Private Hancock

Bernard Severn as Private

Alvar Liddell as Self (voice)

Donald Campbell as Townsman (uncredited)

Harold Coyne as Townsman (uncredited)

George Curtis as Townsman (uncredited)

Anthony Eden as Self (archive sound) (uncredited)

George Hilsdon as Townsman (uncredited)

Jason James as Hostage (uncredited)

Pat Judge as Townsman (uncredited)

Maureen Nelson as German Corporal (uncredited)

Fred Peck as Townsman (uncredited)

Guy Standeven as Army Officer (uncredited)

Reg Thomason as Townsman (uncredited)

Reg Turner as German Naval Officer (uncredited)

Fred Wood as Townsman (uncredited)