Walter Chiari as Fiorello Capone

Silvana Pampanini as Empress Poppea

Carlo Campanini as Jimmy Gargiulo

Jackie Frost as Licia

Gino Cervi as Nero

Gildo Bocci as

Rocco D'Assunta as Pannunzia, the Prefect

Giulio Donnini as Tigellinus

Enzo Fiermonte as Gladiator

Richard McNamara as

Alda Mangini as Sophonisba, the Sorceress

John Myhers as

Piero Palermini as Marcus

Umberto Sacripante as Venditore di ricordi

Ugo Sasso as Muzio

Mario Siletti as Seneca

Bruno Smith as Slave-trader

Michael Tor as A consul

Pietro Tordi as Gladiator of Gaul

Henri Vidon as

Alba Arnova as Dancer

Sandro Bianchi as

Rosario Borelli as Tullio

Pietro Capanna as

Giacomo Furia as Harbinger

Felice Minotti as A Christian

Franco Pesce as

Pasquale Fasciano as Thief #1 (uncredited)

Angelo Dessy as A smuggler