Trailer
 | Anthony Hopkins as Charles Dickens |
 | Sybil Thorndike as Elizabeth Ball Dickens |
 | Gladys Cooper as Mrs. Ternan |
 | Joan Greenwood as Maria Beadnell |
 | Stanley Holloway as Mr. Vuffin |
 | Michael Wilding as Dolby |
 | Mona Washbourne as Mrs. Jarley |
 | Gordon Jackson as The Narrator (voice) |
 | Arthur Lowe as John Dickens |
 | Vivian Pickles as Mrs. Dickens |
 | Nora Nicholson as Rosa Emma Drummond |
 | Dandy Nichols as Mrs. Gamp |
 | Freddie Jones as William Shaw |
 | Patrick Cargill as Macready |
 | Jenny Agutter as Young Maria Beadnall/Mary Hogarth/Ellen Ternan |
 | Dorothy Reynolds as Mrs. Roylance/Mrs. Hogarth/Mrs. Prigg/Lady Holland |
 | Gordon Rollings as Codlin/Mould/Ramsay |
 | Jeffry Wickham as Lammert/Whitmore/John Black |
 | Rhoda Lewis as Georgina Hogarth |
 | Ken Wynne as Mr. Ellis |
| Jocelyn Britton as Kate Dickens (as Jocelyn Birdsall) |
| Gregory Phillips as Smike |
| Roland Pickering as Charles Dickens (as a child) |
| Directing | |
| Ned Sherrin | Director |
