Frankie Howerd as Private Lurk

Hermione Baddeley as Madame Monique

Robert Coote as General Burke

Bill Fraser as Sergeant Major Groping

Lance Percival as Colonel von Gutz

Dora Bryan as Auntie Cora Crumpington

Peter Bull as General von Kobler

Jonathan Cecil as Captain Nigel Phipps-Fortescue

Percy Herbert as Corporal Lovechild

William Mervyn as Lord Twithampton

Madeline Smith as Fanny

Stanley Holloway as The Great Vincento

Zsa Zsa Gabor as Mata Hari

David Battley as Midgeley

Nicholas Bennett as Mallett

Michael Brennan as Military Policeman

Veronica Clifford as Velma

Mischa De La Motte as Diplomat

Vernon Dobtcheff as Muller

Kenneth Fortescue as General Burke's Aide-de-Camp

Robert Gillespie as French Officer

Peter Greenwell as Pianist / Accordianiste / Leader of the Orchestra

Derek Griffiths as El Puncturo

Harvey Hall as Military Policeman

Gertan Klauber as Donner

Stanley Lebor as Blitzen

Ingo Mogendorf as Captain Hamburger

Toni Palmer as 1st Buttercup Girl

Patricia Quinn as Magda

Linda Gray as Lady Twithampton

Mike Grady as Newsboy

Barrie Gosney as Stage Manager

Bob Hoskins as Recruiting Sergeant

Andy Bradford as Dispatch Rider

Andrew McCulloch as Soldier

Alan Rebbeck as Winking Soldier

Bozena as Frou Frou

Ian Talbot as Soldier at Monique's

Parnell McGarry as Fat Nurse

Leena Skoog as Nurse

Delia Sainsbury as 2nd Buttercup Girl

Madhav Sharma as Indian Officer

Lesley Anderson as Buttercup Girl

Judy Gridley as Buttercup Girl

Maggie Vincent as Buttercup Girl

Wendy Lukins as Buttercup Girl

Nicola Rowley as French Girl

Pip Miller as Waiter

Liz Gold as Mademoiselle from Armentieres (uncredited)

Jennifer Guy as Whore (uncredited)

Victor Harrington as British Officer (uncredited)

Sidney Kean as Singing Soldier (uncredited)

Lorna Kilner as Lady Dancing at Ball (uncredited)

Margaret Stuart as Prostitute (uncredited)

John Tatham as British Officer (uncredited)

Joe Wadham as Ambulance Driver (uncredited)

Ron Watkins as British Solider (uncredited)