Bourvil as Léon Duchemin, Norman restaurateur

Sophie Desmarets as Maria Duchemin, sister of Léon

Peter McEnery as Jeff, the downed British airman

Sara Franchetti as Juliette Duchemin, daughter of Léon

Jean Poiret as Armand, resistance leader and double agent

Reinhard Kolldehoff as Lieutenant Heinrich Jakobus Steinbichler aka 'Totor'

Pino Caruso as Lieutenant Friedrich, Rommel's driver

Terry-Thomas as Commander Perry of British HQ

Roland Lesaffre as Fake resistance fighter full of tics

Jacques Balutin as Resistant gendarme

Robert Le Béal as Officer of the British HQ

Jacques Préboist as Ernest

Jess Hahn as British colonel

Guy Delorme as German sailor

Jackie Sardou as Angèle Charlus, wife of the painter

Frank Williams as Clergyman

Jean-Pierre Zola as Colonel Muller

Georges Staquet as Hippolyte, leader of the resistance

John Eppler as Erwin Rommel

Patrick Préjean as Officer of the British HQ

Annabel Leventon as Sybil, British non-commissioned officer

Janine Dill as Passerby

Antoine Baud as Feldgendarme

Anthony Stuart as Officer of the British HQ

Pierre Decazes as SS soldier

Roger Lumont as French chef in London

Michel Robin as Shoemaker of shoes for Rommel

Rudy Lenoir as German non-commissioned officer

Jean Rupert as British HQ order

Fernand Guiot as German corporal of 'Totor'

William Mervyn as Protestant Bishop, Jeff's father

Billy Kearns as Training camp commander

Marcel Gassouk as German corporal

Jean Moulard as Gestapo policeman

Gerald Campion as Clergyman

Peter Myers as Colonel in the R.A.F.

Roger Guillo as Prunier, cook in London

Paul Savatier as Prison guard

Roger Mailles as Gendarme

Bernard Saint-Jacques as SS soldier

Gilbert Roimarmier as German non-commissioned officer

René Rall as Gestapo policeman

Roger Trapp as Tramp in prison

Guy Allombert as German officer

Bill Horsley as R.A.F. orderly

Yvon Lec as Gédéon Charlus

Jacques Marbeuf as German non-commissioned officer

Rico López as Albert

Norman Mitchell as Bobby

Stephen Yardley as Bobby

Maurice Auzel as British soldier (uncredited)