Michael Caine

Col. Kurt Steiner

Rick Parsé

E-Boat Commander

Keith Buckley

Hauptmann Gericke

John Barrett

Laker Armsby

Maurice Roëves

Major Corcoran

David Gilliam

Sgt. Murphy

Jeff Conaway

Frazier

Siegfried Rauch

Sgt. Brandt

Brian Blessed

Arthur Seymour (voice) (uncredited)

Patrick Allen

Opening Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

Anthony Forrest

Sgt. Hayley (uncredited)

Wolf Kahler

Hauptsturmführer Fleischer (uncredited)

Roy Marsden

Sturmbannführer Toberg, SS (uncredited)

Ferdy Mayne

Radl's Doctor (uncredited)

Denis Lill

Churchill's aide

Joachim Hansen

SS-Obergruppenführer

Donald Sutherland

Liam Devlin

Robert Duvall

Col. Max Radl

Jenny Agutter

Molly Prior

Donald Pleasence

Himmler