Alastair Sim as Wetherby Pond

Margaret Rutherford as Muriel Whitchurch

John Turnbull as Conrad Matthews: Staff of Nutbourne

Richard Wattis as Arnold Billings: Staff of Nutbourne

John Bentley as Richard Tassell: Staff of Nutbourne

Guy Middleton as Victor Hyde-Brown: Staff of Nutbourne

Percy Walsh as Monsieur Joue: Staff of Nutbourne

Arthur Howard as Anthony Ramsden: Staff of Nutbourne

Edward Rigby as Rainbow: Staff of Nutbourne

Harold Goodwin as Edwin: Staff of Nutbourne

Gladys Henson as Mrs. Hampstead: Staff of Nutbourne

Muriel Aked as Miss Jezzard: Staff of St. Swithin's

Joyce Grenfell as Miss Gossage: Staff of St. Swithin's

Bernadette O'Farrell as Miss Harper: Staff of St. Swithin's

Myrette Morven as Miss Chapel: Staff of St. Swithin's

Patience Rentoul as Miss Armstrong: Staff of St. Swithin's

Lilian Stanley as Miss Curtis: Staff of St. Swithin's

Kenneth Downey as Sir Angus McNally

Laurence Naismith as Dr. Collet

Stringer Davis as Rev. Rich

Stanley Lemin as Mr. Parry

Olwen Brookes as Mrs. Parry

Alan Broadhurst as Mr. Ibbertson

Vivien Wood as Mrs. Ibbertson

Nan Munro as Mrs. Jones

Russell Waters as Mr. West

George Benson as Mr. Tripp

Angela Glynne as Barbara Colhoun

Patricia Owens as Angela Parry

Margaret Anderson as Alice

Betty Blackler as Mary

Fred Marshall as Metcalf

John Rhodes as Cranbourne

Jim Davis as Talbot

Keith Faulkner as Unsworth

William Simonds as Oliver

George Cole as Junior Assistant Caretaker at Ministry of Education (Uncredited)

Beryl Ede as Political Canvasser (Uncredited)

Gertrude Kaye as Assistant Cook (Uncredited)

Charlotte Mitchell as Ethel (Uncredited)

Pat Pleasance as Young Girl (Uncredited)

Mackenzie Ward as Benson (Uncredited)