The Great Inimitable Mr. Dickens

Anthony Hopkins

— Charles Dickens

Sybil Thorndike

— Elizabeth Ball Dickens

Gladys Cooper

— Mrs. Ternan

Joan Greenwood

— Maria Beadnell

Stanley Holloway

— Mr. Vuffin

Michael Wilding

— Dolby

Mona Washbourne

— Mrs. Jarley

Gordon Jackson

— The Narrator (voice)

Arthur Lowe

— John Dickens

Vivian Pickles

— Mrs. Dickens

Nora Nicholson

— Rosa Emma Drummond

Dandy Nichols

— Mrs. Gamp

Freddie Jones

— William Shaw

Patrick Cargill

— Macready

Jenny Agutter

— Young Maria Beadnall/Mary Hogarth/Ellen Ternan

Dorothy Reynolds

— Mrs. Roylance/Mrs. Hogarth/Mrs. Prigg/Lady Holland

Gordon Rollings

— Codlin/Mould/Ramsay

Jeffry Wickham

— Lammert/Whitmore/John Black

Rhoda Lewis

— Georgina Hogarth

Ken Wynne

— Mr. Ellis

Jocelyn Britton

— Kate Dickens (as Jocelyn Birdsall)

Gregory Phillips

— Smike

Roland Pickering

— Charles Dickens (as a child)