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  Michael Gough

  Flying Instructor Pearson
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  Nigel Green

  Streatfield
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  Fred Griffiths

  Lorry Driver.
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  George Rose

  Squadron Leader Edwards
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  Eddie Byrne

  Flight Sergeant Mills
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  Charles Carson

  Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Dowding
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  Eric Pohlmann

  Adjutant at Prison Camp
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  Ronan O'Casey

  Canadian Pilot/Coltishall II

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  Lyndon Brook

  Johnny Sanderson
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  Lee Patterson

  Turner
• 
  Dorothy Alison

  Nurse Brace
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  Anne Leon

  Sister Thornhill
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  Frank Atkinson

  Desoutters Assistant
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  Ronald Adam

  Air Vice-Marshal Leigh-Mallory
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  Michael Ripper

  Warrant Officer West

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  Philip Stainton

  Police Constable
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  Stringer Davis

  Bader's Uncle.
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  Russell Waters

  Pearson
• 
  Kenneth More

  Douglas Bader
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  Sydney Tafler

  Robert Desoutter
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  Ernest Clark

  Bader's 242 Squadron Base Commander
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  Anton Diffring

  German officer who captures Bader at the cottage
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  Alexander Knox

  Mr. Joyce
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  Peter Byrne

  Civilian pilot who witnesses Bader's crash
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  Basil Dignam

  2nd doctor who passes Bader
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  Howard Marion-Crawford

  'Woody' Woodhall
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  Peter Burton

  Peter/Coltishall Officer
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  Patrick Westwood

  RAF Corporal/Diver
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  Richard Marner

  German officer in staff car
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  Roger Maxwell

  Pantiles
• 
  Muriel Pavlow

  Thelma Bader
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  Clive Revill

  RAF batman who helps Bader with his new legs
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  Nigel Green

  Streatfield
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  Walter Hudd

  Air Vice-Marshal Halahan
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  Lee Patterson

  Turner
• 
  Michael Warre

  Harry Day
• 
  Jack Watling

  Peel