The Battle of The River Plate (film) - Cast

Cast

• John Gregson as Captain Frederick "Hookie" Bell, HMS Exeter
• Anthony Quayle as Commodore Henry Harwood, HMS Ajax
• Ian Hunter as Captain Charles Woodhouse, HMS Ajax
• Jack Gwillim as Captain Edward Parry, HMS Achilles
• Bernard Lee as Captain Patrick Dove, MS Africa Shell
• Peter Finch as Captain Hans Langsdorff, Admiral Graf Spee
• Lionel Murton as Mike Fowler, American radio reporter in Montevideo
• Anthony Bushell as Eugen Millington-Drake, the British Minister in Uruguay
• Peter Illing as Dr Alberto Guani, Uruguayan Foreign Minister
• Michael Goodliffe as Captain Henry McCall, British Naval Attaché in Buenos Aires
• Patrick Macnee as Lieutenant Commander Ralph Medley, HMS Ajax
• John Chandos as Dr Otto Langmann, the German Minister in Uruguay
• Douglas Wilmer as M. Desmoulins, the French Minister in Uruguay
• William Squire as Ray Martin, British SIS agent in Montevideo
• Roger Delgado as Captain Varela, Uruguyan Navy
• Andrew Cruickshank as Captain William Stubbs, SS Doric Star
• John Le Mesurier as the Chaplain of HMS Exeter
• Christopher Lee as Manolo, bar owner in Montevideo harbour
• Edward Atienza as Pop, Mike Fowler's gaucho assistant
• April Olrich as Dolores (singing voice by Muriel Smith)
• Peter Dyneley as Captain John Robison, SS Newton Beech (uncredited)

Cast notes

• Future director John Schlesinger has a small part as a prisoner on board the Graf Spee, as does Captain Patrick Dove of Africa Shell, who is himself portrayed by Bernard Lee.
• Anthony Newley and Donald Moffat have small parts as a radio operator and a lookout. Moffat was making his film debut, as was Jack Gwillim.