- Play By:
- Cyril Wentzel
- Novel By:
- Josephine Tey
- Produced By:
- Peter Watts
- Alec Loding, an actor:
- Richard Williams
- Brat Farrar an orphan:
- Frank Duncan
- Bee Ashby, Patrick's aunt:
- Molly Rankin
- Nancy Peck, Alec's sister:
- Margaret Chisholm
- George Peck, the vicar:
- Jack Allen
- Mr Sandal, a solicitor:
- Stephen Jack
- Patrick's sisters:Ruth:
- Gabrielle Blunt
- Patrick's sisters: Eleanor:
- Gillian Andrews
- Simon Ashby, Patrick's twin:
- David Peel
- Sheila Parslow, a schoolgirl:
- Annabel Maule
- Macallan, a local editor:
- John Turnbull
- Coroner:
- Edward Jewesbury
- Abel Tusk, a shepherd:
- Ivan Staff
- Pilbeam, a smith:
- Stephen Jack
- Roger Clint, a farmer:
- Cyril Wentzel