Captain Jonathan Shepard
Kenneth More
WRNS Second Officer Anne Davis
Dana Wynter
RNVR Signals Officer
Jack Watling
Captain Wilfrid Patterson - 'King George V'
Jack Gwillim
Captain Maund - 'Ark Royal'
Mark Dignam
Captain Ellis - 'Suffolk'
Ernest Clark
Captain - 'Sheffield'
John Horsley
Captain Philip Vian - 4th Destroyer of Flotilla
Peter Burton
Captain Kerr - 'Hood'
John Stuart
Admiral Holland - 'Hood'
Walter Hudd
Henry - First Workman, 'Prince of Wales'
Sydney Tafler
Able Seaman Brown
Sean Barrett
Captain Lindemann - 'Bismarck'
Carl Möhner
Flag Lieutenant to First Sea Lord
Thomas Waldron Price
Himself - Edward R. Murrow
Edward R. Murrow
Tom Shepard, Captain Shepard's son, TAG - Ark Royal's Swordfish Squadron (uncredited)
John Stride
Commander Jenkins (uncredited)
Peter Dyneley
Able Seaman Outside Admiralty (uncredited)
Victor Maddern
Seaman - 'Ark Royal' (uncredited)
David Hemmings
Seaman - 'Prince of Wales' (uncredited)
Johnny Briggs
Voice of Winston Churchill (uncredited)
Norman Shelley
Officer P.R.O (uncredited)
John Barron
Airman on Phone (uncredited)
Harold Goodwin
First Sea Lord Admiral Sir Dudley Pound
Laurence Naismith
Signals Officer Mueller on the 'Bismarck' (uncredited)
Walter Gotell
Civilian Worker - 'Prince of Wales' (uncredited)
Sam Kydd
Able Seaman - 'Prince of Wales' (uncredited)
Glyn Houston
Cameron Hall
Signalman - 'Prince of Wales' (uncredited)
Peter Forbes-Robertson
Able Seaman - Lookout on 'Suffolk' (uncredited)
Michael Ripper
Michael Balfour
Petty Officer Williams (uncredited)
Graham Stark
Officer of the Watch - 'Sheffield' (uncredited)
Olaf Pooley
Bridge Officer (uncredited)
Edwin Richfield
Assistant Chief of the Naval Staff (A.C.N.S.)
Geoffrey Keen
Damage Control Officer - Bismarck (uncredited)
George Pravda
Air Vice Marshal (uncredited)
Russell Napier
Navigating Officer - 'Prince of Wales' (uncredited)
Edward Judd
Firing Officer (uncredited)
Bernard Lee
Gunnery Officer - 'King George V' (uncredited)
Robert Brown
Dark Room Technician (uncredited)
Max Butterfield
Naval Rating on Phone (uncredited)
Mark Burns
Roy Castle
Officer - 'Bismarck' (uncredited)
Victor Beaumont
Petty Officer on Phone (uncredited)
Richard Beale
Admiral Lutjens - 'Bismarck'
Karl Stepanek
Able Seaman - 'Ark Royal' (uncredited)
Donald Churchill
First Lieutenant - Destroyer (uncredited)
Peter Cellier
Airman - 'Ark Royal' (uncredited)
Charles Houston
SOE Agent in Norway (uncredited)
Patrick Jordan
Somers - Officer 'King George V' (uncredited)
Ronald Leigh-Hunt
Commander - War Room (uncredited)
Hugh Latimer
Mail Clerk - 'Ark Royal' (uncredited)
Sean Lynch
Julian Somers
Hoffman - 'Bismarck' (uncredited)
Michael Sarne
Dexter (uncredited)
Robert Desmond
Admiral Sir John Tovey, Commander-in-Chief - 'King George'
Michael Hordern
Naval Officer (uncredited)
John Bailey
Lookout - Second Destroyer (uncredited)
Michael Collins
Lt. Becker on the 'Bismarck' (uncredited)
John G. Heller
Meteorological Officer on 'King George V' (uncredited)
Ian Hendry
Officer on Bridge of 'Prince of Wales' (uncredited)
Ronald Hines
Commander Richards
Maurice Denham
Captain Banister
Michael Goodliffe
Captain Leach - 'Prince of Wales'
Esmond Knight
Book
C. S. Forester
Editor
Peter R. Hunt
Director
Lewis Gilbert
Story
Edmund H. North
Screenplay
Casting
Nora Roberts
Original Music Composer
Clifton Parker
Director of Photography
Christopher Challis
Makeup Artist
W.T. Partleton
Art Direction
Arthur Lawson
Sound mixer
Red Law
Camera Operator
Austin Dempster
Assistant Director
Jack Causey
Producer
John Brabourne
Dudley Messenger
Technical Advisor
Peter Peake
Clapper Loader
Mike Fox
Sound
Charles Van der Goor