Pearl Mackie as Narrator (voice)

Charlie Chaplin as Self (archive footage)

Jeff Rawle as Charlie Chaplin 1966

Matthew Wolf as Richard Meryman

Dickie Beau as Roddy McDowall

Anne Rosenfeld as Effie Wisdom

Dominic Marsh as Kevin Brownlow

Paul Leonard as Spokeperson

Eben Young as First Journalist

Haley Flaherty as Third Journalist

Alvah Bessie as

Herbert J. Biberman as

Geraldine Chaplin as

Jane Chaplin as

Michael Chaplin as

Oona O'Neill Chaplin as

Virginia Cherrill as

Jackie Coogan as

Alistair Cooke as

Walt Disney as

Adolf Hitler as

Mahatma Gandhi as

Paulette Goddard as

Lita Grey as

Mildred Harris as

J. Edgar Hoover as

Hedda Hopper as

Ring Lardner, Jr. as

Albert Maltz as

Joseph McCarthy as

Edna Purviance as

Paul Robeson as

Franklin D. Roosevelt as

Mack Sennett as

Robert Taylor as

Dalton Trumbo as

Orson Welles as

Effie Wisdom as Self

David Olawale Ayinde as

Charlie Carter as

Douglas Fairbanks Jr. as

Merv Griffin as

Oliver Hardy as

Al Jolson as

Buster Keaton as

Stan Laurel as

Sarah Lawn as

Jack Lemmon as

Harold Lloyd as