 | Nikolai Cherkasov als Czar Ivan IV |
 | Serafima Birman als Boyarina Efrosinia Staritskaya |
 | Pavel Kadochnikov als Vladimir Andreyevich Staritsky |
 | Mikhail Zharov als Czar's Guard Malyuta Skuratov |
 | Amvrosi Buchma als Czar's Guard Aleksei Basmanov |
 | Vsevolod Pudovkin als Nikolay the Fanatic |
 | Mikhail Kuznetsov als Fyodor Basmanov |
 | Alexander Mgebrov als Novgorod's Archbishop Pimen |
 | Andrei Abrikosov als Archbishop Philip (formerly Fyodor Kolychev) |
 | Vladimir Balashov als Pyotr Volynets |
 | Eric Pyryev als Ivan IV as a boy |
 | Mikhail Nazvanov als Prince Andrei Kurbsky |
 | Pavel Massalsky als King Sigismund of Poland |
 | Ada Vojtsik als Elena Glinskaya, Ivan's Mother |
 | Aleksandr Rumnyov als The Stranger (uncredited) |
 | Sergei Stolyarov als (uncredited) |
 | Semyon Timoshenko als Kaspar von Oldenbock, Livonian Ambassador (uncredited) |
| Sergei Eisenstein | Writer |
| Sergei Eisenstein | Director |
| Sergei Prokofiev | Original Music Composer |
| Sergei Eisenstein | Producer |
| Andrey Moskvin | Director of Photography |
| Eduard Tisse | Director of Photography |
| Esfir Tobak | Editor |
| Sergei Eisenstein | Production Design |
| Yosyp Shpinel | Production Design |
| Yosyp Shpinel | Art Direction |
| Leonid Naumov | Costume Design |
| M. Safonova | Costume Design |
| Vasili Goryunov | Makeup Artist |
| Vladimir Bogdankevich | Sound Designer |
| Boris Volsky | Sound Designer |
