W. Somerset Maugham
Role: Himself
Basil Radford
Role: Henry Garnet (segment "The Facts of Life")
Naunton Wayne
Role: Leslie (segment "The Facts of Life")
Mai Zetterling
Role: Jeanne (segment "The Facts of Life")
Ian Fleming
Role: Ralph (segment "The Facts of Life")
Jack Raine
Role: Thomas (segment "The Facts of Life")
Angela Baddeley
Role: Mrs. Garnet (segment "The Facts of Life")
James Robertson Justice
Role: Branksome (segment "The Facts of Life")
Jack Watling
Role: Nicky Garnet (segment "The Facts of Life")
Nigel Buchanan
Role: John (segment "The Facts of Life")
Jean Cavall
Role: Cabaret Artist (segment "The Facts of Life")
Dirk Bogarde
Role: George Bland (segment "The Alien Corn")
Honor Blackman
Role: Paula (segment "The Alien Corn")
Raymond Lovell
Role: Sir Frederick Bland (segment "The Alien Corn")
Irene Browne
Role: Lady Bland (segment "The Alien Corn")
George Thorpe
Role: Uncle John (segment "The Alien Corn")
Françoise Rosay
Role: Lea Makart (segment "The Alien Corn")
Maurice Denham
Role: Coroner (segment "The Alien Corn")
Mary Hinton
Role: Aunt Maud (segment "The Alien Corn")
James Hayter
Role: Foreman of the Jury (segment "The Alien Corn")
George Merritt
Role: Prison Officer (segment "The Kite")
George Cole
Role: Herbert Sunbury (segment "The Kite")
Bernard Lee
Role: Ned Preston, a Prison Visitor (segment "The Kite")
Frederick Leister
Role: Prison Governor (segment "The Kite")
David Cole
Role: Herbert (as a boy) (segment "The Kite")
Hermione Baddeley
Role: Beatrice Sunbury (segment "The Kite")
Mervyn Johns
Role: Samuel Sunbury (segment "The Kite")
Susan Shaw
Role: Betty Baker Sunbury (segment "The Kite")
Cyril Chamberlain
Role: Reporter (segment "The Kite")
Cecil Parker
Role: Colonel George Peregrine (segment "The Colonel's Lady")
Nora Swinburne
Role: Mrs. Evie Katherine Peregrine (segment "The Colonel's Lady")
Lyn Evans
Role: Bannock (segment "The Colonel's Lady")
Claud Allister
Role: 1st. Club Man (segment "The Colonel's Lady")
Wilfrid Hyde-White
Role: 2nd. Club Man (segment "The Colonel's Lady")
Ernest Thesiger
Role: Henry Dashwood (segment "The Colonel's Lady")
Henry Edwards
Role: Duke of Heverel (segment "The Colonel's Lady")
Linden Travers
Role: Daphne (segment "The Colonel's Lady")
Felix Aylmer
Role: Martin (segment "The Colonel's Lady")
Clive Morton
Role: Henry Blane (segment "The Colonel's Lady")
J.H. Roberts
Role: West (segment "The Colonel's Lady")
Cyril Raymond
Role: Railway Passenger (segment "The Colonel's Lady")
John Salew
Role: John Coleman (critic) (segment "The Colonel's Lady")
Margaret Withers
Role: Gushing Woman (segment "The Colonel's Lady")
Yvonne Owen
Role: 1st. Gossip (segment "The Colonel's Lady")
Margaret Thorburn
Role: 2nd. Gossip (segment "The Colonel's Lady")
Hal Osmond
Role: Bookshop Assistant (segment "The Colonel's Lady")
Ernest Butcher
Role: Blane's Clerk (segment "The Colonel's Lady")
Johnny Briggs
Role: Boy on Common (segment "The Kite")
Arthur Denton
Role: Man on Common (segment "The Kite")
Marcel Poncin
Role: Frenchman (segment "The Alien Corn")