The Great Inimitable Mr. Dickens

Anthony Hopkins

Charles Dickens

Sybil Thorndike

Elizabeth Ball Dickens

Gladys Cooper

Mrs. Ternan

Joan Greenwood

Maria Beadnell

Stanley Holloway

Mr. Vuffin

Michael Wilding

Dolby

Mona Washbourne

Mrs. Jarley

Gordon Jackson

The Narrator (voice)

Arthur Lowe

John Dickens

Vivian Pickles

Mrs. Dickens

Nora Nicholson

Rosa Emma Drummond

Dandy Nichols

Mrs. Gamp

Freddie Jones

William Shaw

Patrick Cargill

Macready

Jenny Agutter

Young Maria Beadnall/Mary Hogarth/Ellen Ternan

Dorothy Reynolds

Mrs. Roylance/Mrs. Hogarth/Mrs. Prigg/Lady Holland

Gordon Rollings

Codlin/Mould/Ramsay

Jeffry Wickham

Lammert/Whitmore/John Black

Rhoda Lewis

Georgina Hogarth

Ken Wynne

Mr. Ellis

Jocelyn Britton

Kate Dickens (as Jocelyn Birdsall)

Gregory Phillips

Smike

Roland Pickering

Charles Dickens (as a child)