- Unknown:
- Christopher Hassall
- Produced By:
- Felix Felton
- Conducted By:
- Leighton Lucas
- Artaban, King of Trebizond:
- Robert Harris
- Melchior, King of Petra:
- Mark Dignam
- Balthazar, King of Sheba:
- Dan Cunningham
- Kaspar, an Intfian ruler:
- William Trent
- Strabo, Geographer Royal to Artaban:
- Harcourt Williams
- The muleteer:
- Reginald Beckwith
- Captain of the muleteers:
- Francis de Wolff
- Herod the Great, King of the Jews:
- Robert Farquharson
- Achiabus, his Chamberlain:
- Frank Cochrane
- Nicolaus of Damascus, Herod's biographer:
- Patrick Troughton
- Physician attending Herod:
- Arthur Ridley
- Blind man:
- Alexander Sarner
- Young man:
- Laurence Payne
- Robber:
- Philip Cunningham
- Messenger:
- Andrew Faulds
- Roman soldier:
- Richard Carr
- Laila a housewife at Trebizond:
- Gladys Spencer
- Angel of the Tree:
- Joseph O'Connor
- Narrator:
- Ian Cooper
