Christopher Eccleston as Derek Bentley

Paul Reynolds as Christopher Craig

Tom Courtenay as William Bentley

Eileen Atkins as Lilian Bentley

Iain Cuthbertson as Sir David Maxwell-Fyfe

Tom Bell as Fairfax

Clive Revill as Pierrepoint

Serena Scott Thomas as Stella

Clare Holman as Iris Bentley

Mark McGann as Niven Craig

Bert Tyler-Moore as Vincent Montgomery

Jack Deam as Terry Stringer

Linda Bassett as Mrs. Miles

Karl Johnson as Parris

James Villiers as Cassels

Michael Gough as Lord Goddard

Bill Dean as Foreman of the Jury

Edward Hardwicke as Approved School Principal

Charlie Creed-Miles as Second Boy in School

Walter Sparrow as Nightwatchman

Murray Melvin as Secondary School Teacher

Peter Jonfield as Butcher

Rudolph Walker as West Indian Driver

Peter Eyre as Humphries

Ronald Fraser as Niven's Judge

Francis Hope as Big Cecil

Vernon Dobtcheff as Clerk of Court

Norman Rossington as Postman

Terence Skelton as MP

Denny Kirk as Mr Craig

Lottie Ward as Mrs Craig

Niven Boyd as PC McDonald

Robert Morgan as PC Miles

Steve Nicolson as PC Harrison

Michael Elphick as Prison Officer Jack

Jeremy Sinden as Soames, Daily Telegraph

Gary Everett as Reporter

Geoffrey Drew as Prison Chaplain

Viv Warentz as Petition Woman

James Bowers as Police Officer

Joan Heal as Woman in Butcher's Shop

George Christopher Wilson as Young Man in Cafe

William Waghorn as Police Desk Sgt