- Writer:
- Alan Bennett
- Music composed by:
- Ilona Sekacz
- Conductor:
- Harry Rabinowitz
- Film Editor:
- Ken Pearce
- Designer:
- Geoff Powell
- Photography:
- Nat Crosby
- Producer:
- Innes Lloyd
- Director:
- Richard Eyre
- Franz:
- Trevor Peacock
- Doctor:
- Alan MacNaughtan
- Franz (young):
- Robert Hines
- Landlady:
- Diana Hayworth
- Old man in dyeworks:
- Teddy Turner
- Workmen:
- Phil Hearne
- Workmen:
- Bernard Wrigley
- Factory doctor:
- Ronan Wilmot
- Nurse:
- Jill Frudd
- Beatrice:
- Katy Behean
- Undermanager:
- CJ Allen
- Foreman:
- Fred Gaunt
- Christina:
- Tessa Wojtczak
- Christina's father:
- Johnny Allen
- Christina's mother:
- Margo Stanley
- Christina's grandmother:
- Judith Nelmes
- Christina's sister:
- Fran O'Shea
- Doorman:
- Bill Moody
- Lily:
- Vivian Pickles
- Enquiries clerk:
- Guy Nicholls
- Enquiries official:
- Alan Starkey
- Seamstress:
- Charlotte Coleman
- Collecting girl:
- Oona Kirsch
- Pohlmann:
- Tony Haygarth
- Gutling:
- Jim Broadbent
- Jam workman:
- David Miller
- Culick:
- Hugh Fraser
- Head-bandaged workman:
- Ted Carroll
- Head of department:
- Nicholas Selby
- Head clerk:
- Richard Kane
- Kafka:
- Daniel Day-Lewis
- Miss Weber:
- Rosemary Martin
- Butcher boy:
- Lee Daley
- Limping client:
- John de Frates
- Tall woman:
- Richenda Carey
- One-legged man:
- Sam Kelly
- Man without ear:
- Kenny Ireland
- Attendant in waiting room:
- Ted Beyer
- Bald man:
- Iggy Navarro
- Woman in waiting room:
- Rosemary Chamney
- Man in waiting room:
- Peter Christian
- Angry doctor:
- Geoffrey Palmer
- Thin doctor:
- Ralph Nossek
- Fat doctor:
- Roger Hammond
- Woman at tribunal:
- Joanne Ellis
- Franz's father:
- Derry Power
- Man with stomach hole:
- Billy Moores
- Young woman in medical school:
- Deborah Langley
- Kafka's brother-in-law:
- Toby Salaman
