• 
  Charles Crichton

  regizor
• 
  Sidney Cole

  regizor
• 
  Basil Dearden

  regizor

• 
  Peter Finch

  Philip (segment "The Actor")
• 
  Valerie Hobson

  Stella (segment "The Composer")
• 
  Olga Lindo

  Mrs. Bailey (segment "The Prisoner-of-War")
• 
  Wylie Watson
• 
  Lyndon Brook

  Actor (segment "The Actor")

• 
  Percy Walsh

  District Superintendent
• 
  Arthur Hambling
• 
  John Gregson

  Malcolm (segment "The Composer")
• 
  Gladys Henson

  Mrs Hardcastle (segment "The Engine Driver")
• 
  Patric Doonan

  Ron Stacey (segment "The Engine Driver")
• 
  Laurence Naismith

  Joe Hunt (segment "The Actor")
• 
  Michael Hordern

  Plainclothesman (segment "The Actor")

• 
  Mark Dignam

  Bolingbroke (segment "The Actor")
• 
  Miles Malleson

  Timekeeper (segment "The Engine Driver")
• 
  Leslie Phillips

  Stacey's Fireman (segment "The Engine Driver")

• 
  Jim Morahan (I)

  art director
• 
  Anthony Mendleson

  costume
• 
  Bernard Gribble

  montaj
• 
  Ernest Irving

  music department
• 
  Michael Relph

  producător
• 
  Michael Balcon

  producător
• 
  T.E.B. Clarke

  scriitor
• 
  Angus MacPhail

  scriitor
• 
  Basil Dearden

  scriitor
• 
  Ronald Millar

  scriitor