Gracchus
Alexander Corvinus
Magisterial Emissary
King Claudius
Chorus
The Stranger
Kurt Limmer
Inspector Caron
Probert
Narrator ( voice )
Francis Bacon
Nezo (voice)
Klaus Wenzer
Mr. Wheen
Nicodemus (voice)
Lucian Freud
Townley - Publisher
Franklyn Madson
The Duke
Ambrose
Grandfather
Father Lavelle
Stanley Baldwin
Squire Fairfield
Lord Dempsey
Prologue
George Salisbury
Cassio
Honorio
The Tramp / Charles Dickens
Narrator
Cornhill
Guy Burgess
Arthur Clennam
Arthur Davis
Maj. Merton
Dr. Nathan Gross
Nigel Dewberry
Lucky Leadbetter
Archibald Craven
Gracchus (Gladiator) (archive footage)
Dom Claude Frollo
Cyrano de Bergerac
Mr. Simpson
Balzer
Alan Turing
Self
Senator Augusto Pinochet
The Imposter
Himself
Travers Twiss
Guido
General
Narrator (voice)
Count Fernando D'Aillieres
Archibald Craven (voice)
President
Piers Denmont
Errol
Archbishop Cosmo Lang
King Richard II
Mr. Frederick / Sir John
Gregory
Self - Interviewee
Nijinsky (voice) (as Sir Derek Jacobi)
The Friar
Mr. Pye
Andrei
Martin Beck
Don John
Narrator (voice) – King James Version
Adolf Hitler
Voice
Self (archive footage)
Eric
Librarian
Hamlet
Various Characters
Rudolph Agnew
Sidney Turtlebaum
The Magician (voice)
King Lear
Mercutio
Leopold Gursky
Edward Masterman
Fred Ashton
Cardinal Grand Inquisitor
Claudius/Spooner
Derek Jacobi
Ross
Howard Whittam
Scrooge
Pierre (voice)
Professor Joseph Wright
Mr. Yaffe
Father Leonor Fousnel
Claudius
Marcus Fabricius (voice)
Hordedef (voice)
Priam Huntington (voice)
Mr. Brown
Quentin Neely
Daberlohn
(voice)
Other Voices (voice)
Lord Palmerston
Randal
Dr. Hobson
The Lawyer
(archive footage)
Self (voice)
David
Himself - Presenter
Father Enoch
Father Frederick
Sir Owen Morshead
Mr. Operatski (voice)
King
Himself (archive footage)
Jackson Hedley
Freddie Fenton
Dom Claude
William Drew
Webster
Brother Cadfael
Lord Pirrie
Alan
Voice of Ernest Shackleton
Stuart Bixby
Tacitus
Self - Nominee
George Cording QC
The Metatron
Sir Ralph Unwin
Professor Yana
The Master (voice)
Phineas
Lord Edward 'Teddy' Thursby
Various
Imposter
Various (voice)
Dennis Fulcher (voice)
Bishop Myriel
Colonel Protheroe
Erasmus Fry
Metatron
Rupert (voice)
Duke of Windsor