Norman Wisdom as Private Norman Pitkin / General Otto Schreiber

Honor Blackman as Junior Commander Lesley Cartland

Edward Chapman as Private Wilfred Grimsdale

Campbell Singer as Sergeant Loder

Hattie Jacques as Gretchen

Brian Worth as Henri Le Blanc

Terence Alexander as Captain Wharton

John Warwick as Colonel Layton

Arnold Bell as General Hunt

Victor Beaumont as Jogenkraut

André Maranne as Jean-Claude

Frank Williams as Captain Ford

Eddie Leslie as Medical Officer

Richard Marner as German Officer

John G. Heller as German Officer at Gatepost

Roger Avon as Workman (uncredited)

William Baskiville as German Officer (uncredited)

Jim Beasley as British Solider (uncredited)

Alan Beaton as Lieutenant Colonel Bill (uncredited)

Martin Boddey as Colonel (uncredited)

Jim Brady as Mr. Fred Ferndale (uncredited)

Aza Caralova as Café Patron (uncredited)

Alf Casha as Café Patron (uncredited)

Jimmy Charters as Mr. Harry Hoylake (uncredited)

Michael Collins as Airman Handing Out Tea (uncredited)

Mike Conner as German Soldier (uncredited)

Terence Cooper as Paratrooper (uncredited)

Dan Cressey as German Soldier (uncredited)

Robert Desmond as Sentry (uncredited)

Ernest Fennemore as New Recruit (uncredited)

Chick Fowles as German Sentry (uncredited)

Frank Fry as New Recruit (uncredited)

Robert Gillespie as German Soldier (uncredited)

Harold Goodwin as Workman (uncredited)

Fred Griffiths as Lorry Driver (uncredited)

Aidan Harrington as German Soldier (uncredited)

Gordon Harris as Corporal (uncredited)

Derek Holmes as Medical Corporal (uncredited)

Lindsay Hooper as German Soldier (uncredited)

Barry Johns as Paratrooper (uncredited)

Dickey Luck as Paratrooper (uncredited)

Victor Maddern as Motor Pool Corporal (uncredited)

Terence Maidment as Paratrooper (uncredited)

Vicky Marshall as WRAC (uncredited)

Sheila McGibbon as Annie McQuillan (uncredited)

Jim McManus as New Recruit (uncredited)

Geremy Phillips as Soldier (uncredited)

Oliver Reed as (uncredited)

Frank Schock as Café Patron (uncredited)

Arnold Schulkes as German Soldier (uncredited)

George Spence as Mr. Charles Fenton Hopkins (uncredited)

Hazel Sutton as Blonde (uncredited)

Jack Taylor as Paratrooper in Pub (uncredited)

Reg Thomason as German Sentry (uncredited)

Richard Warner as (uncredited)

Brian Wilde as New Recruit (uncredited)

Ian Wilson as Extra (uncredited)

Stephen Zammit as New Recruit (uncredited)