• 
  Basil Dearden

  regizor
• 
  Eliot Elisofon

  regizor

• 
  Robert Ardrey

  scenarist

• 
  Charlton Heston

  Gen. Charles Gordon
• 
  Laurence Olivier

  The Mahdi
• 
  Alan Tilvern

  Awaan
• 
  Douglas Wilmer

  Khalifa Abdullah
• 
  Michael Anthony

  Herbin

• 
  Ralph Michael

  Sir Charles Dilke
• 
  Leo Genn

  Narator
• 
  Ralph Richardson

  William Gladstone
• 
  Alexander Knox

  Sir Evelyn Baring
• 
  Alec Mango

  Bordeini Bey
• 
  Edward Underdown

  Col. William Hicks
• 
  George Pastell

  Giriagis Bey

• 
  Johnny Sekka

  Khaleel
• 
  Roger Delgado
• 
  Zia Mohyeddin

  Zobeir Pasha
• 
  Peter Arne

  Maj. Kitchener
• 
  Ronald Leigh-Hunt

  Lord Northbrook
• 
  Marne Maitland

  Sheikh Osman
• 
  Michael Hordern

  Lord Granville
• 
  Nigel Green

  Gen. Wolseley
• 
  Nigel Green

  Gen. Wolseley
• 
  Richard Johnson

  Col. J.D.H. Stewart
• 
  Hugh Williams

  Lord Hartington