- Writer:
- Richard Gordon
- Music composed and conducted by:
- Dudley Simpson
- Film Editor:
- Ken Pearce
- Designer:
- Jane Martin
- Photography:
- Andrew Dunn
- Producer:
- Innes Lloyd
- Director:
- Richard Stroud
- Dr John Bodkin Adams:
- Timothy West
- Matron:
- Gillian Raine
- Young nurse:
- Lynne Miller
- Mrs Grantley:
- Sylvia Coleridge
- Mrs Langton-Jones:
- Jean Anderson
- Solicitor:
- Michael Malnick
- Male mourner:
- Christopher Banks
- After dinner speaker:
- David Conville
- Mrs Parker:
- Phillada Sewell
- Mrs Smith:
- Anne Dyson
- Superintendent Hannam:
- Nigel Davenport
- Inspector Pugh:
- Stanley Dawson
- Housekeeper:
- Roberta Hamond
- Brixton warder:
- David Arlen
- Geoffrey Lawrence:
- Tristram Jelunek
- Lawrence's junior:
- Dominic Guard
- Sir Reginald Manningham-Buller:
- James Villiers
- Mr Justice Devlin:
- James Walker
- Clerk of the court:
- Cyril Conway
- Nurse Stronach:
- Rosalind Knight
- Sister Mason-Ellis:
- Venetia Barrett
- Nurse Randall:
- Fanny Carby
- Mrs Morrell:
- Joan Henley
- Dr Douthwaite:
- Frederick Treves
- Mrs Rippon:
- Nan Munro
- Mrs Ford:
- Julia McCarthy
- Voice of coroner:
- Paul Beech