Cast
- Richard Egan as King Leonidas, Agiad King of Sparta
- Ralph Richardson as Themistocles of Athens
- Diane Baker as Ellas, daughter of Pentheus and niece of Queen Gorgo
- Barry Coe as Phyllon, son of Grellas, a Spartan in love with Ellas
- Anna Synodinou as Queen Gorgo, Leonidas' wife
- David Farrar as King Xerxes of the Persian Empire
- Anne Wakefield as Artemisia, Queen of Halicarnassus
- Ivan Triesault as Demaratus, exiled Euripontid ex-King of Sparta
- Nikos Papakonstantinou (1920-1993) as Mardonius, Persian general
- Donald Houston as Hydarnes, Persian general leader of the Immortals
- Robert Brown as Pentheus, Spartan soldier second-in-command to Leonidas
- John Crawford as Agathon, Spartan spy and soldier
- Charles Fawcett as Megistias, Spartan priest
- Kieron Moore as Ephialtes of Trachis
- Yorgos Moutsios as Grellas, a Spartan in Xerxes' camp
- Dimos Starenios as Samos, a goatherd living in the vicinity of Thermopylae
- Anna Raftopoulou as Toris, Samos' wife
- John Contes as Artovadus, Persian general
- Michalis Nikolinakos as Myron, a Spartan
- Sandro Giglio as Xenathon, a Spartan Ephor
- Laurence Naismith as unnamed Greek delegate
- Marietta Flemotomos as unnamed Greek woman at shield ceremony
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