Sir Alec Guinness
- Episode aired Oct 6, 1985
Noël Coward
- Hawthorne (clip from Our Man in Havana (1959))
- (archive footage)
John Howard Davies
- Oliver Twist (clip from Oliver Twist (1948))
- (archive footage)
John Gielgud
- Hamlet (clip from 1944 stage production)
- (archive footage)
Tyrone Guthrie
- Self
- (archive footage)
Eileen Herlie
- Gertrude (clip from Hamlet (1948))
- (archive footage)
John Mills
- Pip (clip from Great Expectations (1946))
- (archive footage)
Anthony Newley
- Artful Dodger (clip from Oliver Twist (1948))
- (archive footage)
Laurence Olivier
- Hamlet
- (archive footage)
Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother
- Self
- (archive footage)
Merula Salaman
- Self - Alec Guinness' wife
- (archive footage)
Nellie Wallace
- Self
- (archive footage)
Allan Cuthbertson
- Capt. Eric Simpson (clip from Tunes of Glory (1960))
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
Stanley Holloway
- Pendlebury (clip from The Lavender Hill Mob (1951))
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
Gordon Jackson
- Capt. Jimmy Cairns, M.C. (clip from Tunes of Glory (1960))
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)