Terence Stamp as Billy Budd

Robert Ryan as John Claggart, Master of Arms

Peter Ustinov as Edwin Fairfax Vere, Post Captain

Melvyn Douglas as The Dansker, Sailmaker

Paul Rogers as Philip Seymour, 1st Lieutenant

John Neville as Julian Ratcliffe, 2nd Lieutenant

David McCallum as Steven Wyatt, Gunnery Officer

Ronald Lewis as Enoch Jenkins, Maintopman

Lee Montague as Squeak, Mr. Claggart's assistant

Thomas Heathcote as Alan Payne, Maintopman

Ray McAnally as William O'Daniel, Maintopman

Robert Brown as Arnold Talbot, Maintopman

John Meillon as Neil Kincaid, Maintopman

Cyril Luckham as Hallam, Captain of Marines

Niall MacGinnis as Captain Nathaniel Graveling

Barry Keegan as

Victor Brooks as