Alec Guinness as Gulley Jimson

Kay Walsh as Dee Coker

Renée Houston as Sara Monday

Mike Morgan as Nosey

Robert Coote as Sir William Beeder

Michael Gough as Abel

Veronica Turleigh as Lday Beeder

Reginald Beckwith as Capt. Jones

Arthur Macrae as A.W. Alabaster

Ernest Thesiger as Hickson

Gillian Vaughan as Lollie

Joan Hickson as Lady in Gallery Queue (uncredited)

John Adams as Police Officer (uncredited)

Chris Adcock as Workman (uncredited)

Andy Alston as Workman (uncredited)

Timothy Bateson as Clerk to Borough Surveyor (uncredited)

Jim Brady as Workman (uncredited)

Victor Brooks as Foreman (uncredited)

Peter Bull as Man in Taxi (uncredited)

Richard Caldicot as Roberts (uncredited)

Terry Cashfield as Bit Role (uncredited)

Jack Chissick as Bit Role (uncredited)

Mary Davies as Pretty Girl (uncredited)

Fred Griffiths as Man Delivering Sculpture Block (uncredited)

May Hallatt as Charwoman (uncredited)

Rose Howlett as Cook (uncredited)

Jeremy Judge as Dickie (uncredited)

John Kidd as Pawnbroker (uncredited)

Rosalind Knight as Art Student (uncredited)

Hugh Latimer as Photographer (uncredited)

Richard Leech as Hodges (uncredited)

Garry Leeman as Bit Role (uncredited)

John Lynn as Man in Queue at Tate Gallery (uncredited)

Jackie Martin as Bit Role (uncredited)

Sally Muggeridge as Bit Role (uncredited)

John Norman as Bit Role (uncredited)

Elton Ollivierre as Black Model (uncredited)

Clive Revill as Art Student (uncredited)

Ernie Rice as Onlooker at Demolition of Wall (uncredited)

David Robinson as Bit Role (uncredited)

Tony Spears as Man in Queue at Tate Gallery (uncredited)