Cast
- John Wayne as Sean Thornton
- Maureen O'Hara as Mary Kate Danaher
- Barry Fitzgerald as Michaeleen Oge Flynn
- Victor McLaglen as Squire "Red" Will Danaher
- Ward Bond as Father Peter Lonergan
- Mildred Natwick as The Widow Sarah Tillane
- Francis Ford as Dan Tobin
- Arthur Shields as Rev. Cyril Playfair
- Eileen Crowe as Mrs. Elizabeth Playfair
- Charles FitzSimons as Hugh Forbes
- James Fitzsimons (as James Lilburn) as Father Paul
- Sean McClory as Owen Glynn
- Emily Eby as Mave Campbell
- Jack MacGowran as Ignatius Feeney
- Philip Stainton as Anglican Bishop
- Cast notes
- Charles Fitzsimons and James Fitzsimons were Maureen O'Hara's real life younger brothers. In this film, James was billed as James Lilburn, though he was later better known as James O'Hara. Barry Fitzgerald and Arthur Shields were also brothers in real life, and Francis Ford was John Ford's elder brother. Ken Curtis, later of Gunsmoke fame and newly married to John Ford's daughter Barbara, has a small role as the accordion player.
- Wayne brought his four children along on location, and Ford gave them parts in the important race scene in the film:
- Michael Wayne, 18, as teenage boy at races
- Mary Antonia "Toni" Wayne, 16, as teenage girl at races
- Patrick Wayne, 13, as teenage boy at races
- Melinda Wayne, 12, as young girl at races
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