* Richard Todd as Hereward the Wake
* Rosanna Schiaffino as Torfrida
* Donald Pleasence as King William
* Harry Andrews as Stigand
* David Knight as Siward
* John Laurie as Archbishop Aldred
* Michael Ripper as Osbert
* Peter Cushing as Bishop Odo
* Patrick Wymark as Earl Waltheof
* Robert Rietty as Morcar
* Neil McCallum as Edwin
* George Murcell as Ealdgyth
* Patrick Troughton as Edgar Aetheling
This was a British historical film set in the 11th century, focusing on the legendary figure Hereward the Wake, a Saxon nobleman who resisted the Norman conquest of England.