Jean Marais as Orphée

François Périer as Heurtebise

María Casares as Death

Marie Déa as Eurydice

Henri Crémieux as Editor

Juliette Gréco as Aglaonice

Roger Blin as The Poet

Edouard Dermithe as Jacques Cégeste

André Carnège as Judge

René Worms as Judge

Raymond Faure as Journalist

Pierre Bertin as Commissioner

Jacques Varennes as Judge

Paul Amiot as Judge (uncredited)

Philippe Bordier as Young Man at Café des Poètes (uncredited)

Claude Borelli as Une bacchante (uncredited)

Jean-Louis Brau as Young Man on the Terrace of the Flora (uncredited)

Jean Cocteau as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

Renée Cosima as Une bacchante (uncredited)

Jacques Doniol-Valcroze as Young Man at Café des Poètes (uncredited)

René Lacourt as Postman (uncredited)

Julien Maffre as Police Officer (uncredited)

Claude Mauriac as (uncredited)

Jean-Pierre Melville as Hotel Manager (uncredited)

Jean-Pierre Mocky as Band Leader (uncredited)

Henri San Juan as Young Man at Café des Poètes (uncredited)

Victor Tabournot as Young Man at Café des Poètes (uncredited)