Alan Bates as Charles Crossley

Susannah York as Rachel Fielding

John Hurt as Anthony Fielding

Robert Stephens as Chief Medical Officer

Tim Curry as Robert Graves

Julian Hough as Vicar

Carol Drinkwater as Cobbler's Wife

John Rees as Inspector

Jim Broadbent as Fielder in Cowpat

Susan Wooldridge as Harriet

Nick Stringer as Cobbler

Peter Benson as Harry the Shepherd

Graham Kingsley Brown as Village Churchgoer (uncredited)

Joanna Szczerbic as Cricket Umpire (uncredited)