Roy Barber / Father Kahle
Ian Connaughton / Reporter
Charlotte West-Oram / Downing Street Secretary
Roy Carruthers / Albany Prison Officer
Andy Serkis / Ian Brady
Karen Bayley / Holloway Prison Officer
Karen Spragg / Patricia Cairns
Kika Markham / Governor Wing
John-Paul Hurley / Photographer
Richard Sinnott / Journalist 1
David MacCreedy / Journalist 2
Daniel Maley / Schoolboy 1
Ross Tomlinson / Schoolboy 2
Gordon Langford Rowe / Judge
Ron Meadows / Defence Barrister
Tina Malone / Elsie
Anton Rodgers / William Whitelaw
Martina McClements / Home Office Secretary
C.P. Hallam / Fred Harrison
Pamela Cheshire / Cookham Wood Prisoner
Richard Attlee / Roy Jenkins
Amelia Dearing / Young Girl
David Frost / Self - TV Presenter /  Interviewer (archive footage)
Janet Fullerlove / Prison Officer
Quintin Hogg / Self - Interviewee (archive footage)
Cliff Michelmore / Self - Reporter (archive footage)
John Mortimer / Self (archive footage)
Michael Nicholson / Self - Reporter (archive footage)
Liam Thomas / Newsagent
Anne West / Self - Lesley Anne Downey's Mother (archive footage)

Patricia Kerrigan / Fiona
Lucy Boynton / Young Beatrix
Oliver Jenkins / Young Bertram
Justin McDonald / Young Heelis
Judith Barker / Hilda
Niffy Boyask / Jane
Christopher Middleton / Saunders
Lynn Farleigh / Lady Sybil
John Woodvine / Sir Nigel
Jane How / Lady Armitage
Geoffrey Beevers / Mr. Copperthwaite
Bridget McConnell / Lady Stokely
Joseph Grieves / Lionel Stokely
Clare Clifford / Mrs. Haddon-Bell
Andy McSorley / Harry Haddon-Bell
Sarah Crowden / Lady Clifford
Richard Mulholland / Ashton Clifford
Marc Finn / Mr. Cannon
Nicholas Hutchison / Meeting Chairman
Mike Burnside / Man at Meeting
Dominic Kemp / Auctioneer
Barry McCormick / Bidder
Neil Burgess / Station Staff (uncredited)
Avril Clark / Well Dressed Woman in Bookshop (uncredited)
Pam Rose / Lady (uncredited)
Andrew Sloey / Young Farmer (uncredited)

Peter Ormond / Colonel Ayres
Bailey Rogers / Young Boy at Fete
Richard Campbell / Photographer
Harry Hadden-Paton / Dr. Granger
Anna Madeley / Anne Granger
Sarah Crowden / Miss Dabney
Clive Francis / Mr. Rossiter
Elizabeth Counsell / Mrs. Rossiter
Nicholas Burns / Peter Baker-Hyde
Kate Phillips / Diana Baker-Hyde
Dixie Egerickx / Gillian Baker-Hyde
Oliver Chris / Tony Morley
Maggie McCarthy / Mrs. Ravensdale
Martin Carroll / Dr. Warren
Alison Pargeter / Maid
Archie Bradfield / Alan Blundell
Amy Marston / Mrs. Blundell
Lloyd Hutchinson / Babb
Josh Dylan / Bland
Shaughan Seymour / Hewitt
Alice Bailey Johnson / Brenda
Richard McCabe / Dr. Seeley
Charlie Anson / Bespectacled Man
Lorne MacFadyen / Dr. Calder
Ann Firbank / Aunt Cissie 
Angela Sims / Dress Shop Assistant
Darren Kent / Young Male Patient
Angus Wright / Coroner Ridell
Ferne / 'Gyp'
John G. Smith / Dance Band Member
John Sutton / Dance Band Member
Malcolm Baxter / Dance Band Member
Oliver Wilby / Dance Band Member
Rory McFarlane / Dance Band Member
Dai Pritchard / Dance Band Member
Jonathan Enright / Brass Band Member at Fete
Gregor Spence / Brass Band Member at Fete
Glenn Crisp / Brass Band Member at Fete
Sean Corby / Brass Band Member at Fete
Stewart Swallow / Brass Band Member at Fete
Saul Rose / Melodeon Player
Susan Bradfield / Dancing Nurse
Shiona Brown / Dancing doctors wife
Dan Burns / Dancing Dr.
Chris Coxon / Dancer
Grant Crookes / Pallbearer
Laraine Dix / Doctor
Mark Fisher / Butler
Lorna Rose Harris / Nurse
Amie Howes / Dancing Nurse
Kevin Hudson / Mourner
Nathanael James / Dancing Doctor
Ethan Keaton / Tonsillectomy Patient
Ciéranne Kennedy Bell / Dancing Nurse
Matthew Lightowler / Leprechaun
Kate Lynton / Mrs. Ravendales daughter
Michael Nettleship / Tea party guest
Jeremy Oliver / Farmer
Tim Plester / Unknown
Naomi Reddy / Villager
Nig Richards / Villager
Josephine Rogers / Nurse
Sam Rose / Villager
Stephen Samson / Builder
Helen Thomas / Dancing Nurse
Phil Tillott / Town Mayor
Laurence West / Man in Pub
Christian Wolf-La'Moy / The Vicar