Cedric Hardwicke as Ralph Nickleby

Stanley Holloway as Vincent Crummles

Derek Bond as Nicholas Nickleby

Mary Merrall as Mrs. Nickleby

Sally Ann Howes as Kate Nickleby

Aubrey Woods as Smike

Jill Balcon as Madeline Bray

Bernard Miles as Newman Noggs

Alfred Drayton as Wackford Squeers

Vera Pearce as Mrs. Crummles

James Hayter as Ned and Charles Cheeryble

Emrys Jones as Frank Cheeryble

Cecil Ramage as Sir Mulberry Hawk

Timothy Bateson as Lord Verisopht

George Relph as Mr. Bray

Frederick Burtwell as Sheriff Mercury

Sybil Thorndike as Mrs. Squeers

Hattie Jacques as Mrs Kenwick

Athene Seyler as Miss La Creevy

Vida Hope as Fanny Squeers

Roy Hermitage as Wackford Squeers Jnr.

Laurence Hanray as Mr. Gride

Arthur Brander as Mr. Snawley

Patricia Hayes as Phoebe

Cyril Fletcher as Alfred Mantalini

Fay Compton as Mme. Mantalini

Cathleen Nesbitt as Miss Knag

Una Bart as Infant Phenomenon

June Elvin as Miss Snevellicci

Drusilla Wills as Mrs. Grudden

Roddy Hughes as Tim Linkinwater

Michael Shepley as Mr. Gregsbury M. P.

Eliot Makeham as Postman