Leslie Howard as Sir Percy Blakeney / The Scarlet Pimpernel

Merle Oberon as Lady Marguerite Blakeney

Raymond Massey as Chauvelin

Nigel Bruce as The Prince of Wales

Bramwell Fletcher as The Priest

Anthony Bushell as Sir Andrew Ffoulkes

Joan Gardner as Suzanne de Tournay

Walter Rilla as Armand St. Just

Mabel Terry-Lewis as Countess de Tournay

O.B. Clarence as Count de Tournay

Ernest Milton as Robespierre

Edmund Breon as Col. Winterbottom

Melville Cooper as Romney

Gibb McLaughlin as The Barber

Morland Graham as Treadle

Brember Wills as Doman (uncredited)

Hindle Edgar as Lord Wilmot

William Freshman as Lord Hastings

A. Bromley Davenport as French innkeeper (Brogard)

Allan Jeayes as Lord Grenville

John Turnbull as Jellyband

Gertrude Musgrove as Sally - Jellyband's Daughter

Morland Graham as Treadle the tailor