Riven

Anthony Hopkins

as Charles Dickens

Gordon Jackson

as The Narrator (voice)

Arthur Lowe

as John Dickens

Vivian Pickles

as Mrs. Dickens

Sybil Thorndike

as Elizabeth Ball Dickens

Nora Nicholson

as Rosa Emma Drummond

Stanley Holloway

as Mr. Vuffin

Mona Washbourne

as Mrs. Jarley

Dandy Nichols

as Mrs. Gamp

Freddie Jones

as William Shaw

Patrick Cargill

as Macready

Joan Greenwood

as Maria Beadnell

Gladys Cooper

as Mrs. Ternan

Michael Wilding

as Dolby

Jenny Agutter

as Young Maria Beadnall/Mary Hogarth/Ellen Ternan

Dorothy Reynolds

as Mrs. Roylance/Mrs. Hogarth/Mrs. Prigg/Lady Holland

Ken Wynne

as Mr. Ellis

Gordon Rollings

as Codlin/Mould/Ramsay

Jeffry Wickham

as Lammert/Whitmore/John Black

Jocelyn Britton

as Kate Dickens (as Jocelyn Birdsall)

Rhoda Lewis

as Georgina Hogarth

Gregory Phillips

as Smike

Roland Pickering

as Charles Dickens (as a child)

Ned Sherrin

Director