Cast
- Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka
- Jack Albertson as Grandpa Joe
- Peter Ostrum as Charlie Bucket
- Julie Dawn Cole as Veruca Salt
- Paris Themmen as Mike Teevee
- Denise Nickerson as Violet Beauregarde
- Michael Bollner as Augustus Gloop
- Diana Sowle as Mrs. Bucket
- Roy Kinnear as Mr. Salt
- Dodo Denney as Mrs. Teevee
- Leonard Stone as Mr. Beauregarde
- Ursula Reit as Mrs. Gloop
- Günter Meisner as Mr. Slugworth/Mr. Wilkinson
- Aubrey Woods as Bill the Candy Man
- David Battley as Mr. Turkentine
- Peter Capell as The Tinker
- Werner Heyking as Mr. Jopeck
- Peter Stuart as Winkelmann
Additional (uncredited) performers include George Claydon, Frank Delfino, Rusty Goffe, Angelo Muscat, Rudy Borgstaller, Malcolm Dixon, Ismed Hassan, Norman McGlen, Pepe Poupee, Marcus Powell, and Albert Winkinson as the Oompa Loompas. In an article for the Guardian, Goffe wrote that since there weren't a lot of short British actors at the time, several of the Oompa Loompa players were non-English speakers and that translation for repeated instructions was often frustrating for director, Mel Stuart. He also noted that choreographer, Howard Jeffrey, had to adjust dance sequences to account for the actors' shorter legs.
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