Gracchus
Ambrose
David
Father Enoch
Mr. Brown
Dr. Hobson
Lord Palmerston
The Lawyer
Professor Joseph Wright
Mr. Yaffe
Edward Masterman
Ross
Léo Gursky
King
Count Fernando D'Aillieres
Travers Twiss
Claudius/Spooner
Self
Narrator (voice)
Himself
Narrator
Sir Owen Morshead
Prologue
Honorio
Cornhill
King Lear
Archbishop Cosmo Lang
Derek Jacobi
Mr. Simpson
Fred Ashton
Himself - Presenter
Piers Denmont
Rudolph Agnew
Quentin Neely
Nigel Dewberry
Sidney Turtlebaum
Dr. Nathan Gross
Howard Whittam
Grandfather
Magisterial Emissary
Guido
The Tramp / Charles Dickens
Balzer
Senator Augusto Pinochet
Alexander Corvinus
Mr. Wheen
Lord Dempsey
Nezo (voice)
Other Voices (voice)
Cardinal Grand Inquisitor
Mr. Operatski (voice)
The Duke
Nijinsky (voice) (as Sir Derek Jacobi)
Stanley Baldwin
Gracchus (Gladiator) (archive footage)
Maj. Merton
Probert
Priam Huntington (voice)
Father Lavelle
Librarian
Squire Fairfield
Voice
Gracchus
Lucky Leadbetter
Father Leonor Fousnel
Father Frederick
Narrator ( voice )
King Claudius
Randal
Self / Interview
Alan Turing
Narrator
Archibald Craven (voice)
Marcus Fabricius (voice)
The Magician (voice)
Franklyn Madson
Mr. Frederick / Sir John
Himself
Chorus
(voice)
Hordedef (voice)
The Imposter
Arthur Clennam
Archibald Craven
Pierre (voice)
Cyrano de Bergerac
Kurt Limmer
Nicodemus (voice)
The Stranger
Adolf Hitler
Dom Claude Frollo
Daberlohn
Martin Beck
Hamlet
Arthur Davis
King Richard II
Townley - Publisher
Narrator
Guy Burgess
Gregory
Klaus Wenzer
Inspector Caron
Andrei
Don John
Cassio
Narrator
Narrator
Self (archive footage)