Clint Eastwood as John Wilson

Jeff Fahey as Pete Verrill

Charlotte Cornwell as Miss Wilding

George Dzundza as Paul Landers

Alun Armstrong as Ralph Lockhart

Norman Lumsden as Butler George

Edward Tudor-Pole as Reissar

Roddy Maude-Roxby as Thompson

Richard Warwick as Basil Fields

Marisa Berenson as Kay Gibson

Richard Vanstone as Phil Duncan

Christopher Fairbank as Tom Harrison

Catherine Neilson as Irene Saunders

Clive Mantle as Harry

Timothy Spall as Hodkins

Alex Norton as Zibelinsky

Boy Mathias Chuma as Kivu

Conrad Asquith as Ogilvy