• 
  Douglas Hickox

  regizor

• 
  Anthony Story

  scenarist

• 
  Burt Lancaster

  Durnford
• 
  Peter O'Toole

  Lord Chelmsford
• 
  Peter Vaughan

  QSM Bloomfield
• 
  Christopher Cazenove

  Locotenent Coghill
• 
  Bob Hoskins

  C.S.M. Williams
• 
  David Bradley (II)

  Pte. Williams

• 
  James Faulkner

  Lt. Melvill
• 
  Ken Gampu

  Mantshonga
• 
  Denholm Elliott

  Colonel Pulleine
• 
  Ronald Pickup

  Lt. Harford
• 
  John Mills

  Sir Henry Bartle Frere
• 
  Freddie Jones

  Bishop Colenso
• 
  Graham Armitage

  Capt. Shepstone

• 
  Ian Yule

  Cpl. Fields
• 
  Paul Copley

  Cpl. Storey
• 
  Ronald Lacey

  Norris Newman
• 
  Michael Jayston

  Col. Crealock
• 
  Nicholas Clay

  Lt. Raw
• 
  Sydney Chama

  S. M. Kambula
• 
  Simon Ward

  Lt. William Vereker
• 
  Anna Calder-Marshall

  Fanny Colenso
• 
  Larry Taylor

  Grenadier
• 
  Phil Daniels

  Boy Pullen
• 
  Peter J. Elliott

  Sentry
• 
  Brian O'Shaughnessy

  Maj. Smith R.A.
• 
  Donald Pickering

  Maj. Russell R.A.
• 
  Ian Yule

  Cpl. Fields