 | Charlton Heston als Gen. Charles 'Chinese' Gordon |
 | Laurence Olivier als Mahdi |
 | Richard Johnson als Colonel Stewart |
 | Ralph Richardson als William Gladstone |
 | Alexander Knox als Sir Evelyn Baring |
 | Johnny Sekka als Khaleel |
 | Michael Hordern als Lord Granville |
 | Zia Mohyeddin als Zobeir Pasha |
 | Marne Maitland als Sheikh Osman |
 | Nigel Green als General Wolseley |
 | Hugh Williams als Lord Hartington |
 | Ralph Michael als Sir Charles Dilke |
 | Douglas Wilmer als Khalifa Abdullah |
 | Edward Underdown als Colonel William Hicks |
 | Peter Arne als Major Kitchener |
 | Alan Tilvern als Awaan |
 | Michael Anthony als Herbin |
 | Roger Delgado als Sheikh Abdul Rahim |
 | Leo Genn als Narrator (voice) |
 | Jerome Willis als Frank Power |
| Robert Ardrey | Writer |
| Eliot Elisofon | Director |
| Basil Dearden | Director |
| Julian Blaustein | Producer |
| Edward Scaife | Director of Photography |
| Tom Buchanan | Boom Operator |
| Pamela Cornell | Set Dresser |
| Basil Appleby | Unit Manager |
| Cliff Culley | Special Effects |
| Yakima Canutt | Second Unit Director |
| Richard Parker | Special Effects |
| Kay Rawlings | Continuity |
| Harry Waxman | Second Unit Director of Photography |
| Bluey Hill | Assistant Director |
| Fergus McDonell | Editor |
| John Peverall | Assistant Director |
| Frank Cordell | Conductor |
| Charles Orme | Production Supervisor |
| Frank Ernst | Unit Manager |
| Ray Parslow | Camera Operator |
| John Dennis | Sound Recordist |
| Eileen Head | Continuity |
| Hilda Fox | Hairdresser |
| Jack Atcheler | Camera Operator |
| Kelvin Pike | Camera Operator |
| Gordon K. McCallum | Sound Recordist |
| Dino Di Campo | Sound Editor |
| Jeff Seaholme | Camera Operator |
| Laurie Clarkson | Sound Recordist |
| Tom Smith | Makeup Artist |
| Bert Ross | Sound Recordist |
| Scott MacGregor | Assistant Art Director |
| John McCorry | Wardrobe Supervisor |
| H. A. R. Thomson | Camera Operator |
| Ted Tester | Assistant Art Director |
| Bill Lodge | Makeup Artist |
| Frank Cordell | Original Music Composer |
| Mary Bruce | Researcher |
| John Howell | Art Direction |
| Weston Drury Jr. | Casting |
