Richard Burton as Father Goddard

Dominic Guard as Benjamin 'Benjie' Stanfield

David Bradley as Arthur Dyson

Billy Connolly as Blakey

Andrew Keir as Headmaster

Willoughby Gray as Brigadier Walsh

Preston Lockwood as Father Hibbert

James Ottaway as Father Matthews

Brook Williams as Father Clarence

Robin Soans as Father Henryson

Trevor Martin as Mr. Gladstone

Sharon Duce as Louella

Brian Glover as the first policeman

Dan Meaden as the second policeman

Hilary Mason as Miss Froggatt

Hilda Fenemore as Mrs. Hoskins

Robert Addie as Cawley

Philip Leake as Gregory

Jon Plowman as Father Piers

Michael Crompton as O'Dowd

Andrew Boxer as a boy

Richard Willis as a boy

Michael Parkhouse as a boy

Richard Kates as a boy

Martyn Hesford as a boy

Clive Gehle as a boy

Charles Rigby as a boy

Michael Bell as a boy

Martin Stringer as a boy

Francis Fry as a boy

Julian Firth as a boy

Tim Short as a boy

Michael Munn as a priest

Kevin Hart as Peterson