Ronald Colman as Major Rudolf Rassendyll / The Prisoner of Zenda

Madeleine Carroll as Princess Flavia

Douglas Fairbanks Jr. as Rupert of Hentzau

Mary Astor as Antoinette de Mauban

C. Aubrey Smith as Colonel Zapt

David Niven as Captain Fritz von Tarlenheim

Raymond Massey as Black Michael

Montagu Love as Detchard

Philip Sleeman as Albert von Lauengram

Eleanor Wesselhoeft as Frau Holf the Cook

Torben Meyer as Max the Butler

Wilhelm von Brincken as Krafstein (uncredited)

Ben Webster as Lord Topham (uncredited)

Byron Foulger as Johann (uncredited)

Charles K. French as Bishop (uncredited)