Jean Gabin as Jean Valjean / Champmathieu

Bernard Blier as Javert (père et fils)

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 Monseigneur Myriel

Madeleine Barbulée as Sœur Simplice

Martine Havet as Costte à 8 ans

Lucien Baroux as Gillenormand

Julienne Paroli as Madame Magloire

Jean Ozenne as Le préfet de Montreuil

Isabelle Lobbe as Azelma

Jimmy Urbain as Gavroche

Gérard Darrieu as Feuilly

Jacques Harden as Courfeyrac

Marc Eyraud as Grantaire

Pierre Tabard as Prouvaire

Suzanne Nivette as Mademoiselle Gillenormand

Jean Murat as Le colonel Pontmercy

Gerhard Bienert as Le président du tribunal

René Fleur as Le cardinal

Henri Guégan as Un ami de l'ABC

Luc Andrieux as Un ouvrier

Harry Hindemith as Un bagnard

Bernard Musson as Un bourgeois

Gabrielle Fontan as La mère supérieure du couvent

Paul Villé as Basque

Edmond Ardisson as Un gendarme

Christian Fourcade as Le petit ramoneur

Robert Bazil as Un commissaire

Louis Arbessier as Le préfet

Laure Paillette as La servante, rue Plumet

Jean d'Yd as Le père Mabeuf

Émile Genevois as Le cocher de l'omnibus

Jean Favre-Bertin as La « mort »

François Darbon as le médecin

Jean Topart as Le narrateur (voice)

Pierre Moncorbier as

Mag-Avril as La servante de Monsieur Madeleine

Pierre Ferval as Le comptable de la prison

Julien Maffre as

Jean Blancheur as

Rodolphe Marcilly as L'huissier

Jacques Marin as Le secrétaire de Monsieur Madelaine

Henri Coutet as Un charretier

Raymonde Vattier as

Palmyre Levasseur as Sœur Pérpétue, religieuse

Paul Bonifas as Le médecin de l'hôpital

André Dalibert as Le paysan au cheval

Marcel Rouzé as

André Wasley as

Édouard Francomme as Le secrétaire de mairie

Frank Morris as

Georges Atlas as

Fredy Barten as

Christoph Beyertt as Bahorel

Trude Brentina as Une bourgeaoise

Horst Buder as Ernast

Werner Dissel as Brevet

Gerhard Einert as Un révolutionnaire

Hans Finohr as Un révolutionnaire

Johannes Knittel as Le cabuc

Waltraut Kramm as La serveuse

Hans Ulrich Laufer as Combeferre

Wolfgang Lippert as Un révolutionnaire

Rolf Moebius as Avocat général

Kurt Mühlhardt as Un assesseur

Erich Nadler as Un mendiant

Klara Reschke as Une baptiste

Karl Schnog as Un bourgeois

Werner Segtrop as Défenseur du tribunal

Elisabeth Süssenguth as Une baptiste

Nico Turoff as Chenildieu

Fabian Wander as Un révolutionnaire

Arlette Mirapeu as