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Charlton Heston
Gen. Charles 'Chinese' Gordon

Laurence Olivier
Mahdi

Richard Johnson
Colonel Stewart

Ralph Richardson
William Gladstone

Alexander Knox
Sir Evelyn Baring

Johnny Sekka
Khaleel

Michael Hordern
Lord Granville

Zia Mohyeddin
Zobeir Pasha

Marne Maitland
Sheikh Osman

Nigel Green
General Wolseley

Hugh Williams
Lord Hartington

Ralph Michael
Sir Charles Dilke

Douglas Wilmer
Khalifa Abdullah

Edward Underdown
Colonel William Hicks

Peter Arne
Major Kitchener

Alan Tilvern
Awaan
Michael Anthony
Herbin

Roger Delgado
Sheikh Abdul Rahim

Leo Genn
Narrator (voice)

Jerome Willis
Frank Power
Art
Pamela Cornell
Set Dresser
John Howell
Art Direction
Ted Tester
Assistant Art Director
Scott MacGregor
Assistant Art Director
Camera
Edward Scaife
Director of Photography
H. A. R. Thomson
Camera Operator
Ray Parslow
Camera Operator
Kelvin Pike
Camera Operator
Harry Waxman
Second Unit Director of Photography
Jack Atcheler
Camera Operator
Jeff Seaholme
Camera Operator
Costume & Make-Up
John McCorry
Wardrobe Supervisor
Hilda Fox
Hairdresser
Bill Lodge
Makeup Artist
Tom Smith
Makeup Artist
Directing

Basil Dearden
Director
Eliot Elisofon
Director
John Peverall
Assistant Director
Eileen Head
Continuity
Bluey Hill
Assistant Director
Kay Rawlings
Continuity

Yakima Canutt
Second Unit Director
Editing
Fergus McDonell
Editor
Production
Julian Blaustein
Producer
Mary Bruce
Researcher
Frank Ernst
Unit Manager
Basil Appleby
Unit Manager
Charles Orme
Production Supervisor
Weston Drury Jr.
Casting
Sound
Tom Buchanan
Boom Operator
Frank Cordell
Conductor
Bert Ross
Sound Recordist
Frank Cordell
Original Music Composer
Dino Di Campo
Sound Editor
Gordon K. McCallum
Sound Recordist
John Dennis
Sound Recordist
Laurie Clarkson
Sound Recordist
Writing
Robert Ardrey
Writer