Fredric March as Jean Valjean / Champmathieu

Charles Laughton as Inspector Emile Javert

Cedric Hardwicke as Bishop Bienvenue (as Sir Cedric Hardwicke)

Rochelle Hudson as Cosette

Florence Eldridge as Fantine

Frances Drake as Eponine

John Beal as Marius

Jessie Ralph as Madame Magloire

Mary Forbes as Mlle. Baptiseme

Florence Roberts as Toussaint

Jane Kerr as Madame Thenardier

Ferdinand Gottschalk as Thenardier

Charles Haefeli as Brevet

Marilyn Knowlden as Little Cosette (as Marilynne Knowlden)

John Bleifer as Chenildieu

Eily Malyon as Mother Superior

John Carradine as Enjolras

Bess Flowers as Trial Spectator (uncredited)

Robert Greig as Prison Governor at Jean's Release (uncredited)

Kai Schmidt as Lawyer (uncredited)

Everett Brown as Black Convict

Leonid Kinskey as Genflou

Harry Semels as Cochepaille

Ian Maclaren as Head Gardener

Vernon Downing as Brissac

Lyons Wickland as Lamarque

Herbert Ashley as Drunk at Inn

Sam Baker as Black Convict

Elmer Ballard as Court Clerk

Reginald Barlow as Henri

George Barraud as Prosecutor in Arras

Leon Beaumon as Gendarme in Prefect's Office

Margaret Bloodgood as Factory Forewoman

Stanley Blystone as Gendarme in Prefect's Office

Sidney Bracey as Mayor's Clerk

Herbert Bunston as Judge at Favorelles

Ray Burgess as Gendarme in Prefect's Office

William P. Carleton as First Judge in Arras

Phillip Cash as Galley Carpenter Warders

Kathleen Chambers as Jean's Paris Servant After Convent

Stephen Chase as Gendarme at Bishop's Home

Davison Clark as Marcin

Gilbert Clayton as Duchaine

Heinie Conklin as Drunk at Inn

Maxine Cook as Thernardier's Child

Harry Cording as Beam Warder

J. Gunnis Davis as Defense Consul in Arras

Jack Curtis as Gendarme in Prefect's Office

Joe De Stefani as Usher in Arras Courtroom / Old Clerk in Arras

Lowell Drew as Duval

David Dunbar as Gendarme in Prefect's Office

Cecil Elliott as Concierge

William Elmer as Lawyer

Arthur Evers as Court Clerk

Al Ferguson as Gendarme

Raúl Figarola as Lawyer

Budd Fine as Galley Fight Warder

Olin Francis as Galley Whip Warder

Christian J. Frank as Gendarme Investigator

Roger Gray as Gendarme at Inn

Robert Greig as Prison Governor at Jean's Release

George Guhl as Onlooker

Frank Hagney as Galley Prisoner

Lew Hicks as Gendarme in Prefect's Office

Keith Hitchcock as Senior Prefect Confirming Gendarme Appointments

Gertrude Hoffmann as Nurse

Virginia Howell as Old Beggarwoman Directing Jean to Bishop

Olaf Hytten as Pierre

John Ince as Third Judge in Arras

E. Midge Ingleton as Peasant Woman on Road

Ethan Laidlaw as Gendarme at Bishop's Home

Wilfred Lucas as Onlooker

Mary MacLaren as Nurse

George MacQuarrie as Doorman at Arras

Murdock MacQuarrie as Fauchelevant

James Pier Mason as Galley Prisoner

Frank McCarroll as Javert's Aide in Chase

Philo McCullough as Galley Whip Warder

J.P. McGowan as Javert's Plainclothesman

Leonard Mudie as Priest Counselling Released Prisoners

John Northpole as Gendarme in Prefect's Office

G. Raymond Nye as Jacques

Frederick Peters as Galley Whip Warder

Francis Powers as Lawyer

Albert Prisco as Galley Prisoner