Freddie Bartholomew as David Copperfield as a Boy

Frank Lawton as David Copperfield as a Man

Edna May Oliver as Aunt Betsey Trotwood

Jessie Ralph as Clara Peggotty

Madge Evans as Agnes Wickfield as a Woman

Maureen O'Sullivan as Dora Spenlow

Elizabeth Allan as Clara Copperfield

Harry Beresford as Dr. Chillip

Hugh Walpole as The Vicar

Basil Rathbone as Mr. Edward Murdstone

Herbert Mundin as Barkis

John Buckler as Ham Peggotty

Fay Chaldecott as Little Em'ly as a Girl

Una O'Connor as Mrs. Gummidge

Lionel Barrymore as Dan Peggotty

Violet Kemble Cooper as Jane Murdstone

Elsa Lanchester as Clickett

W.C. Fields as Wilkins Micawber

Jean Cadell as Emma Micawber

Lennox Pawle as Mr. Dick

Renee Gadd as Janet

Roland Young as Uriah Heep

Lewis Stone as Mr. Wickfield

Marilyn Knowlden as Agnes Wickfield as a Girl

Hugh Williams as James Steerforth

Florine McKinney as Little Em'ly as a Woman

Ivan F. Simpson as Littimer

Mabel Colcord as Mary Ann

Lionel Belmore as Old Bailey Warden (uncredited)

E. E. Clive as Sheriff's Man (uncredited)

Arthur Treacher as Donkey Man (uncredited)