Cast
As appearing in screen credits (main roles identified):
- Kenneth More as Captain Jonathan Shepard
- Carl Möhner as Captain Lindemann
- Dana Wynter as 2nd Officer Anne Davis
- Laurence Naismith as First Sea Lord (Sir Dudley Pound)
- Karel Štěpánek as Admiral Günther Lütjens
- Maurice Denham as Commander Richards
- Mark Dignam as Captain, HMS Ark Royal
- Michael Goodliffe as Captain Banister
- Jack Gwillim as Captain, HMS King George V
- Esmond Knight as Captain, HMS Prince of Wales. Knight actually served as a gunnery officer on board her, and was badly injured during the battle with the Bismarck.
- Edward R. Murrow as himself; recreating some of his historic wartime broadcasts for CBS for the film.
- Michael Hordern as Admiral Tovey, Commander-in-Chief, HMS King George V
- Geoffrey Keen as Assistant Chief of the Naval Staff
- Jack Watling as Signals Officer
- Ernest Clark as Captain, HMS Suffolk
- John Horsley as Captain, HMS Sheffield
- Peter Burton as Captain - First Destroyer
- Sydney Tafler as First Workman Henry
- John Stuart as Captain, HMS Hood
- Walter Hudd as Admiral, HMS Hood
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