Jean Gabin
Role: Jean Valjean / Champmathieu
Bernard Blier
Role: Javert father / Javert son
Béatrice Altariba
Role: Cosette
Giani Esposito
Role: Marius de Pontmercy
Silvia Monfort
Role: Éponine Thénardier
Danièle Delorme
Role: Fantine
Elfriede Florin
Role: La Thénardier
Serge Reggiani
Role: Enjolras
Fernand Ledoux
Role: Monsignor Bienvenu Myriel
Madeleine Barbulée
Role: Sister Simplice
Martine Havet
Role: Cosette at 8 years old
Lucien Baroux
Role: Monsieur Gillenormand
Julienne Paroli
Role: Madame Magloire
Jean Ozenne
Role: Prefect of Montreuil-sur-Mer
Isabelle Lobbe
Role: Azelma
Jimmy Urbain
Role: Gavroche
Gérard Darrieu
Role: Feuilly, revolutionary
Jacques Harden
Role: Courfeyrac
Marc Eyraud
Role: Grantaire, revolutionary
Pierre Tabard
Role: Prouvaire
Suzanne Nivette
Role: Mademoiselle Gillenormand
Jean Murat
Role: Colonel-Baron Georges Pontmercy
Gerhard Bienert
Role: President of the Arras court
Henri Guégan
Role: Laigle, friend of the ABC
Luc Andrieux
Role: Henri, insurgent worker
Harry Hindemith
Role: Convict Cochepaille
Bernard Musson
Role: Bamatabois, bourgeois
Gabrielle Fontan
Role: Mother superior of the convent
Edmond Ardisson
Role: Gendarmerie brigadier
Christian Fourcade
Role: 'Petit-Pierre', little chimney sweep
Robert Bazil
Role: Commissioner
Louis Arbessier
Role: Police prefect
Laure Paillette
Role: Toussainte, servant of rue Plumet
Jean d'Yd
Role: Father Mabeuf
Émile Genevois
Role: Coachman of the omnibus
Jean Favre-Bertin
Role: 'The Death'
François Darbon
Role: Doctor
Jean Topart
Role: Narrator (voice)
Mag-Avril
Role: Monsieur Madeleine's servant
Pierre Ferval
Role: Prison accountant
Rodolphe Marcilly
Role: Bailiff
Jacques Marin
Role: Monsieur Madeleine's secretary
Raymonde Vattier
Role: Bourgeois woman
Palmyre Levasseur
Role: Sister Perpétue
Paul Bonifas
Role: Hospital doctor
André Dalibert
Role: Peasant with the horse in Montfermeil
Édouard Francomme
Role: Town hall secretary
Franck Maurice
Role: Man from the gang
Christoph Beyertt
Role: Bahorel
Hans Ulrich Laufer
Role: Combeferre
Trude Brentina
Role: Bourgeois woman (uncredited)
Horst Buder
Role: Ernast (uncredited)
Werner Dissel
Role: Brevet (uncredited)
Gerhard Einert
Role: Revolutionary (uncredited)
Hans Finohr
Role: Revolutionary (uncredited)
Johannes Knittel
Role: 'Le cabuc' (uncredited)
Waltraut Kramm
Role: Waitress (uncredited)
Wolfgang Lippert
Role: Revolutionary (uncredited)
Rolf Moebius
Role: General advocate (uncredited)
Kurt Mühlhardt
Role: Assessor (uncredited)
Erich Nadler
Role: Beggar (uncredited)
Klara Reschke
Role: Baptist (uncredited)
Karl Schnog
Role: Bourgeois (uncredited)
Werner Segtrop
Role: Defender in court (uncredited)
Elisabeth Süssenguth
Role: Baptist (uncredited)
Nico Turoff
Role: Chenildieu (uncredited)
Fabian Wander
Role: Revolutionary (uncredited)
Max Doria
Role: Doorman (uncredited)
Christian Lude
Role: Commissioner of Val-de-Grâce (uncredited)
Paul Faivre
Role: Gillenormand's coachman (uncredited)
Jimmy Perrys
Role: Release attendant (uncredited)
Robert Porte
Role: Paget (uncredited)
Fredy Barten
Role: (uncredited)
Christian Brocard
Role: (uncredited)
Raymond Carl
Role: (uncredited)
Harold Conway
Role: (uncredited)
Yvonne Décade
Role: (uncredited)
Jean-Paul Le Chanois
Role: (uncredited)
Allain Dhurtal
Role: (uncredited)
Jean Sylvère
Role: (uncredited)