• 
  Peter Glenville

  regizor

• 
  Richard Burton

  Thomas Becket
• 
  Peter O'Toole

  Henry II
• 
  Geoffrey Bayldon

  Brother Philip
• 
  Michael Anthony

  Courtier
• 
  Felix Aylmer

  Archbishop of Canterbury
• 
  Paolo Stoppa

  Pope Alexander III
• 
  Frank Pettingell

  Bishop of York

• 
  Alex Scott

  Preot
• 
  Donald Wolfit

  Bishop Folliot
• 
  Martita Hunt

  Empress Matilda
• 
  John Gielgud

  King Louis VII of France
• 
  Edward Woodward

  Clement
• 
  Graham Stark

  Pope's Secretary
• 
  Niall MacGinnis

  Baron

• 
  Siân Phillips

  Gwendolen
• 
  Linda Marlowe

  Farmer's Daughter
• 
  Percy Herbert

  Baron
• 
  Gino Cervi

  Cardinal Zambelli
• 
  Véronique Vendell

  French prostitute
• 
  Peter Jeffrey

  Baron
• 
  John Moulder-Brown

  băiat
• 
  David Davenport
• 
  Pamela Brown

  Queen Eleanor [of Aquitaine]
• 
  Inigo Jackson

  Robert de Beaumont
• 
  Christopher Rhodes

  Baron
• 
  David Weston

  Brother John