Jean Gabin as Jean Valjean / Champmathieu

Bernard Blier as Javert father / Javert son

Béatrice Altariba as Cosette

Giani Esposito as Marius de Pontmercy

Bourvil as Thénardier

Silvia Monfort as Éponine Thénardier

Danièle Delorme as Fantine

Elfriede Florin as La Thénardier

Serge Reggiani as Enjolras

Fernand Ledoux as Monsignor Bienvenu Myriel

Madeleine Barbulée as Sister Simplice

Martine Havet as Cosette at 8 years old

Lucien Baroux as Monsieur Gillenormand

Julienne Paroli as Madame Magloire

Jean Ozenne as Prefect of Montreuil-sur-Mer

Isabelle Lobbe as Azelma

Jimmy Urbain as Gavroche

Gérard Darrieu as Feuilly, revolutionary

Jacques Harden as Courfeyrac

Marc Eyraud as Grantaire, revolutionary

Pierre Tabard as Prouvaire

Suzanne Nivette as Mademoiselle Gillenormand

Jean Murat as Colonel-Baron Georges Pontmercy

Gerhard Bienert as President of the Arras court

René Fleur as Cardinal

Henri Guégan as Laigle, friend of the ABC

Luc Andrieux as Henri, insurgent worker

Harry Hindemith as Convict Cochepaille

Bernard Musson as Bamatabois, bourgeois

Gabrielle Fontan as Mother superior of the convent

Paul Villé as Basque

Edmond Ardisson as Gendarmerie brigadier

Christian Fourcade as 'Petit-Pierre', little chimney sweep

Robert Bazil as Commissioner

Louis Arbessier as Police prefect

Laure Paillette as Toussainte, servant of rue Plumet

Jean d'Yd as Father Mabeuf

Émile Genevois as Coachman of the omnibus

Jean Favre-Bertin as 'The Death'

François Darbon as Doctor

Jean Topart as Narrator (voice)

Pierre Moncorbier as

Mag-Avril as Monsieur Madeleine's servant

Pierre Ferval as Prison accountant

Julien Maffre as

Jean Blancheur as

Rodolphe Marcilly as Bailiff

Jacques Marin as Monsieur Madeleine's secretary

Henri Coutet as Carter

Raymonde Vattier as Bourgeois woman

Palmyre Levasseur as Sister Perpétue

Paul Bonifas as Hospital doctor

André Dalibert as Peasant with the horse in Montfermeil

Marcel Rouzé as

André Wasley as

Édouard Francomme as Town hall secretary

Franck Maurice as Man from the gang

Georges Atlas as

Christoph Beyertt as Bahorel

Hans Ulrich Laufer as Combeferre

Arlette Mirapeu as

Roger Pelletier as

Trude Brentina as Bourgeois woman (uncredited)

Horst Buder as Ernast (uncredited)

Werner Dissel as Brevet (uncredited)

Gerhard Einert as Revolutionary (uncredited)

Hans Finohr as Revolutionary (uncredited)

Johannes Knittel as 'Le cabuc' (uncredited)

Waltraut Kramm as Waitress (uncredited)

Wolfgang Lippert as Revolutionary (uncredited)

Rolf Moebius as General advocate (uncredited)

Kurt Mühlhardt as Assessor (uncredited)

Erich Nadler as Beggar (uncredited)

Klara Reschke as Baptist (uncredited)

Karl Schnog as Bourgeois (uncredited)

Werner Segtrop as Defender in court (uncredited)

Elisabeth Süssenguth as Baptist (uncredited)

Nico Turoff as Chenildieu (uncredited)

Fabian Wander as Revolutionary (uncredited)

Max Doria as Doorman (uncredited)

Christian Lude as Commissioner of Val-de-Grâce (uncredited)

Paul Faivre as Gillenormand's coachman (uncredited)

Jimmy Perrys as Release attendant (uncredited)

Robert Porte as Paget (uncredited)

Fredy Barten as (uncredited)

Christian Brocard as (uncredited)

Raymond Carl as (uncredited)

Harold Conway as (uncredited)

Yvonne Décade as (uncredited)

Jean-Paul Le Chanois as (uncredited)

Allain Dhurtal as (uncredited)

Jean Sylvère as (uncredited)