Daniel Gélin
Role: Napoléon Bonaparte
Michèle Morgan
Role: Joséphine de Beauharnais
Raymond Pellegrin
Role: Old Napoléon Bonaparte
Sacha Guitry
Role: Talleyrand
Jean-Pierre Aumont
Role: Regnault de St-Jean d'Angely
Jeanne Boitel
Role: Madame de Dino
Gilbert Bokanowski
Role: Trader / Louis XVI (uncredited)
Pierre Brasseur
Role: Barras
Gianna Maria Canale
Role: Pauline Borghese
Jean Chevrier
Role: General Duroc
Danielle Darrieux
Role: Eléonore Denuelle
Clément Duhour
Role: Marshal Michel Ney
Jacques Dumesnil
Role: Marshal Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte
O.W. Fischer
Role: Karl von Metternich
Jean Gabin
Role: Marshal Jean Lannes
Cosetta Greco
Role: Elisa Baccioli
Madeleine Lebeau
Role: Emilie Pellapra
Jean Marais
Role: Count Montholon
Lana Marconi
Role: Marie Walewska
Armand Mestral
Role: Marshal Nicolas Oudinot
Yves Montand
Role: Lefebvre
Patachou
Role: Madame Sans-Gêne
Roger Pigaut
Role: Marquis de Caulaincourt
Micheline Presle
Role: Queen Hortense de Beauharnais
Serge Reggiani
Role: Lucien Bonaparte
Dany Robin
Role: Désirée Clary
Noël Roquevert
Role: General Cambronne
Maria Schell
Role: Marie-Louise d'Autriche
Erich von Stroheim
Role: Ludwig van Beethoven
Maurice Teynac
Role: Count Emmanuel de Las Cases
Henri Vidal
Role: Marshal Joachim Murat
Orson Welles
Role: Sir Hudson Lowe
Roland Alexandre
Role: Count of Blanc-Mesnil
Lucien Baroux
Role: Louis XVIII
Pauline Carton
Role: An innkeeper
Michèle Cordoue
Role: Laetitia
Jean Danet
Role: General Gourgaud
Jean Debucourt
Role: Count Joseph Fouché
Bernard Dhéran
Role: Bourrienne (uncredited)
Maurice Escande
Role: Louis XV (uncredited)
Maria Favella
Role: Madame Laetitia, Napoleon's mother (uncredited)
Gilbert Gil
Role: Louis Bonaparte (uncredited)
Daniel Ivernel
Role: Cambacérès (uncredited)
Marie Mansart
Role: Madame Bertrand (uncredited)
Robert Manuel
Role: Joseph Bonaparte (uncredited)
Jean Marchat
Role: General Bertrand (uncredited)
Nicole Maurey
Role: Madame Tallien (uncredited)
Anne Carrère
Role: Madame Hamelin (uncredited)
Dora Doll
Role: 'Une Merveilleuse' (uncredited)
Louis de Funès
Role: Soldier Laurent Passementier (uncredited)
Pierre Would
Role: Marshal Pérignon (uncredited)
Paul Dupuis
Role: Neipperg