Liselotte Pulver as Tony Buddenbrook

Nadja Tiller as Gerda Buddenbrook

Hansjörg Felmy as Thomas Buddenbrook

Hanns Lothar as Christian Buddenbrook

Lil Dagover as Elisabeth Buddenbrook

Maria Sebaldt as Aline Puvogel

Günther Lüders as Corle Smolt

Wolfgang Wahl as Hermann Hagenström

Matthias Fuchs as Leutnant von Trotha

Carsta Löck as Ida Jungmann

Paul Hartmann as Pastor Kölling

Ellen Roedler as Anna

Hans Leibelt as Dr. Friedrich Grabow

Gustl Halenke as Clara Tiburtius

Walter Sedlmayr as Alois Permaneder

Fritz Schmiedel as Sigismund Gosch

Peter Lühr as Dr. Langhals

Josef Dahmen as Rektor Wulicke

Karl Ludwig Lindt as Friedrich Wilhelm Marcus

Frank Freytag as Sievert Tiburtius

Günther Jerschke as Kandidat Modersohn

Hans Hessling as Zahnarzt Brecht

Helga Feddersen as Clothilde Buddenbrook

Hela Gruel as Sesemi Weichbrodt

Karl Kramer as Bürgermeister

Reinhold Zobel as Hanno

John Koch as Kai

Ernst Brasch as Diener Anton