Jean Marais as François de Capestang, aka 'Le Capitan'

Bourvil as Baladin Cogolin

Elsa Martinelli as Gisèle d'Angoulême

Pierrette Bruno as Giuseppa

Arnoldo Foà as Marshal of Ancre, Concino Concini

Lise Delamare as Marie de Médicis

Annie Anderson as Béatrice de Beaufort

Guy Delorme as Rinaldo

Jacqueline Porel as Léonora Galigaï

Jean-Paul Coquelin as Monsieur de Vitry

Raphaël Patorni as Duke of Angoulême

Robert Porte as Duke of Rohan

Jean Berger as Luynes

Piéral as Lorenzo, alchemist dwarf

Jean Blancheur as

Alain Janey as Lackey of Gisèle

Françoise Deldick as Waitress at the inn “La Pomme d’or”

Michel Thomass as Executioner

Benoîte Labb as Innkeeper’s wife

Marcel Pérès as Innkeeper of “La Pomme d’or”

Jean-Michel Rouzière as Provincial gentleman

Edmond Beauchamp as Provincial governor

Christian Fourcade as Louis XIII

Georges Adet as Provincial gentleman (uncredited)

Raoul Billerey as Concini man (uncredited)

René Roussel as Gentleman (uncredited)

Henri Coutet as Lackey of Gisèle (uncredited)

Paul Préboist as Cut-purse thief (uncredited)

Jacques Préboist as Cut-purse thief (uncredited)

Bernard Dhéran as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

Marcel Policard as Halberdier (uncredited)

Louis Bugette as Turnkey (uncredited)

Bernard Musson as Concini's guard drinking the glass of wine (uncredited)

Henri Poirier as Castle soldier (uncredited)

Elisabeth Fanty as (uncredited)

Pierre Durou as (uncredited)

Georges Montant as (uncredited)

André Bonnardel as (uncredited)

Jonny Mary as (uncredited)

Edmond Tamiz as (uncredited)