| Steve McQueen | ... Capt. Virgil Hilts (The Cooler King) |
| James Garner | ... Flight Lt. Bob Anthony Hendley (The Scrounger) |
| Richard Attenborough | ... Squadron Leader Roger Bartlett (Big X) |
| James Donald | ... Group Capt. Rupert Ramsey (The SBO) |
| Charles Bronson | ... Flight. Lt. Danny Velinski (The Tunnel King) |
| Donald Pleasence | ... Flight Lt. Colin Blythe (The Forger) |
| James Coburn | ... Flying Officer Louis Sedgwick (The Manufacturer) |
| Hannes Messemer | ... Col. von Luger (Prison Commandant) |
| David McCallum | ... Lt. Cmdr. Eric Ashley-Pitt (Dispersal) |
| Gordon Jackson | ... Flight Lt. Sandy MacDonald (Intelligence) |
| John Leyton | ... Flight Lt. William Dickes (The Tunneler) |
| Angus Lennie | ... Flying Officer Archibald Ives (The Mole) |
| Nigel Stock | ... Flight Lt. Denys Cavendish (The Surveyor) |
| Robert Graf | ... Werner (The Ferret) |
| Jud Taylor | ... Goff |
| Hans Reiser | ... Herr Kuhn |
| Harry Riebauer | ... Sgt. Strachwitz (German) |
| William Russell | ... Sorren |
| Robert Freitag | ... Capt. Posen |
| Ulrich Beiger | ... Preissen |
| George Mikell | ... Lt. Dietrich |
| Lawrence Montaigne | ... Hayes (Diversions) |
| Robert Desmond | ... Griffith (Tailor) |
| Til Kiwe | ... Frick |
| Heinz Weiss | ... Kramer |
| Tom Adams | ... Dai Nimmo (Diversions) |
| Karl-Otto Alberty | ... Steinach (German Officer) |
