Cast
- George C. Scott as General George S. Patton. Rod Steiger had first turned down the role, later admitting that it was the worst decision of his career.
- Karl Malden as General Omar Bradley
- Stephen Young as Captain Chester B. Hansen
- Michael Strong as Brigadier General Hobart Carver
- Michael Bates as Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery
- Frank Latimore as Lieutenant Colonel Henry Davenport
- Morgan Paull as Captain Richard N. Jensen
- Karl Michael Vogler as Field Marshal Erwin Rommel
- John Barrie as Air Marshal Arthur Coningham
- Siegfried Rauch as Captain Steiger
- Richard Münch as Colonel General Alfred Jodl
- John Doucette as Major General Lucian Truscott
- Paul Stevens as Colonel Charles R. Codman
- Jack Gwillim as General Harold Alexander
- Gerald Flood as Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder
- Ed Binns as General Walter B. Smith
- Peter Barkworth as Colonel John Welkin
- Lawrence Dobkin as Colonel Gaston Bell
- Lionel Murton as Third Army chaplain James H. O'Neill
- David Healy as Clergyman
- Douglas Wilmer as Major General Francis de Guingand
- James Edwards as Sergeant William George Meeks
- Tim Considine as Corporal Charles Kuhl
- Clint Ritchie as Tank captain
- Alan MacNaughtan as British briefing officer
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