The Great Inimitable Mr. Dickens

Anthony Hopkins

Charles Dickens

Gordon Jackson

The Narrator (voice)

Arthur Lowe

John Dickens

Vivian Pickles

Mrs. Dickens

Sybil Thorndike

Elizabeth Ball Dickens

Nora Nicholson

Rosa Emma Drummond

Stanley Holloway

Mr. Vuffin

Mona Washbourne

Mrs. Jarley

Dandy Nichols

Mrs. Gamp

Freddie Jones

William Shaw

Patrick Cargill

Macready

Joan Greenwood

Maria Beadnell