Arthur Chipping

Peter O'Toole

Katherine Bridges

Petula Clark

The Headmaster

Michael Redgrave

Max Staefel

Michael Bryant

Lord Sutterwick

George Baker

Ursula Mossbank

Sian Phillips

William Baxter

Jack Hedley

Headmaster's Wife

Alison Leggatt

Jenny Runacre

Bill Calbury

Clinton Greyn

Mrs. Paunceforth

Barbara Couper

Johnny Longbridge

Michael Culver

Lady Sutterwick

Elspeth Gray

General Paunceforth

Clive Morton

Lady Sutterwick (uncredited)

Elspet Gray

Mrs. Summersthwaite

Elspeth March

Algie

Ronnie Stevens

Sutterwick Jr.

John Gugolka

Johnson (uncredited)

Jeremy Lloyd

David

Michael Ridgeway

Pompeii Guide

Mario Maranzana

Price

Jack May

Farley

Tom Owen

Tilly (uncredited)

Sheila Steafel

Schoolboy (uncredited)

Michael Audreson

Schoolboy (uncredited)

Julian Barnes

Schoolboy (uncredited)

Craig Marriott

Schoolboy (singing voice) (uncredited)

Pierre Bedenes

Girl at Party (uncredited)

Gillian Blake

Elder Master (uncredited)

Leo Britt

Herbert Ross

Tardy Student (uncredited)

Nicholas Frankau

Policeman (uncredited)

Royston Tickner

Schoolboy (uncredited)

Gary Graham

Miss Honeybun (uncredited)

Patricia Hayes

Dancer (uncredited)

Barbara Knox

Schoolboy (uncredited)

Lawrence Lambert

Gresham (uncredited)

John Moulder-Brown

Man in Theatre (uncredited)

James Payne

Jenkins (voice) (uncredited)

Robert Rietti

Chairman of the Board of Governors (uncredited)

Richard Vernon

Schoolboy (uncredited)

Raymond Ward