• 
  Jack Smight

  regizor

• 
  Charlton Heston

  Matthew Garth
• 
  Henry Fonda

  Amiralul Chester Nimitz
• 
  James Coburn

  Vinton Maddox
• 
  Glenn Ford

  Raymond Spruance
• 
  Robert Mitchum

  William Halsey
• 
  Dabney Coleman

  Captain Murray Arnold
• 
  Dale Ishimoto

  Vice Admiral Moshiro Hosogaya

• 
  Hal Holbrook

  Commander Joseph Rochefort
• 
  Edward Laurence Heimberger

  Lieutenant Tom Garth
• 
  Clyde Kusatsu

  Cmdr. Watanabe
• 
  Miiko Taka

  (TV version only)
• 
  Ed Nelson (VI)

  Admiral Harry Pearson
• 
  Christopher George

  Lieutenant Commander C. Wade McClusky
• 
  Kip Niven

  PBY pilot

• 
  Sandy McPeak

  Capt. Thomas
• 
  Shiro Mifune

  Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto
• 
  Tom Selleck

  Aide to Capt. Cyril Simard
• 
  Pat Morita

  Rear Admiral Ryunosuke Kusaka
• 
  Robert Webber

  Rear Admiral Frank J. 'Jack' Fletcher
• 
  John Schuck

  Wilson
• 
  Robert Wagner

  Lieutenant Commander Ernest L. Blake
• 
  Larry Pennell

  Captain Cyril Simard
• 
  Cliff Robertson

  Commander Carl Jessop
• 
  Erik Estrada

  Pilot Ramos
• 
  Toshiro Mifune

  Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto
• 
  Richard Sanders

  (TV version only)
• 
  Monte Markham

  Commander Max Leslie
• 
  Alfie Wise

  Dobbs
• 
  James Shigeta

  Vice Admiral Chuichi Nagumo
• 
  Gregory Walcott

  Captain Elliott Buckmaster
• 
  Steve Kanaly

  Lt. Cmdr. Lance E. "Lem" Massey
• 
  Yuki Shimoda

  Officer aboard carrier Hiryu
• 
  John Fujioka

  Rear Admiral Tamon Yamaguchi
• 
  Susan Sullivan

  Ann (TV version only)
• 
  Robert Ito

  Cmdr. Minoru Genda
• 
  Mitch Ryan

  RAdm. Aubrey W. Fitch
• 
  Clint Ritchie

  Lt. Cmdr. Charles Fenton
• 
  Larry Csonka

  Cmdr. Delaney
• 
  Noel Conlon

  (TV version only)
• 
  Glenn Corbett

  Lieutenant Commander John Waldron
• 
  Sab Shimono

  Lt. Tomonaga
• 
  Christina Kokubo

  Haruko Sakura
• 
  Biff McGuire

  Captain Miles Browning
• 
  Ed Nelson

  Admiral Harry Pearson