Richard Attenborough

Jack Read - The Boy

Sheila Sim

Lynne Hartley - The Housemaster's Daughter

Bernard Miles

Mr. Read - Jack's Father

Cecil Trouncer

Lloyd Hartley M.A. - The Housemaster

Robert Flemyng

Nigel Lorraine - The House Tutor

Edith Sharpe

Mrs. Hartley - The Housemaster's Wife

Joan Hickson

Mrs. Read - Jack's Mother

Timothy Bateson

Ronald Lacey

Clive Baxter

Gregory

Basil Cunard

Buckton

John Forrest

Fitch

Maureen Glynne

Bessie

Brenda Hogan

Lorna Beckett

Herbert Lomas

Sir James Corfield

Anthony Newley

Miles Minor

Anthony Nicholls

Mr. Stringer

Wally Patch

Uncle Percy

Hay Petrie

Peck