 | Bette Davis als Queen Elizabeth |
 | Errol Flynn als The Earl of Essex |
 | Olivia de Havilland als Lady Penelope Gray |
 | Donald Crisp als Francis Bacon |
 | Alan Hale als The Prince of Tyrone |
 | Vincent Price als Sir Walter Raleigh |
 | Henry Stephenson als Lord Burghley |
 | Henry Daniell als Sir Robert Cecil |
 | James Stephenson als Sir Thomas Egerton |
 | Nanette Fabray als Mistress Margaret Radcliffe |
 | Ralph Forbes als Lord Knollys |
 | Robert Warwick als Lord Mountjoy |
 | Leo G. Carroll als Sir Edward Coke |
 | Guy Bellis als Lord Charles Howard (uncredited) |
| Jacob Dance als Essex's Soldier (uncredited) |
 | Forrester Harvey als Bit Part (uncredited) |
 | Holmes Herbert als Majordomo (uncredited) |
 | I. Stanford Jolley als Spectator Outside Whitehall Palace (uncredited) |
 | Doris Lloyd als Handmaiden (uncredited) |
 | John Sutton als Capt. Armand of the Queen's Guard (uncredited) |
 | Rosella Towne als Lady of the Court (uncredited) |
 | Maris Wrixon als Lady of the Court (uncredited) |
| Michael Curtiz | Director |
| Norman Reilly Raine | Screenplay |
| Æneas MacKenzie | Screenplay |
| Erich Wolfgang Korngold | Original Music Composer |
| Anton Grot | Art Direction |
| Sol Polito | Director of Photography |
| Owen Marks | Editor |
| C.A. Riggs | Sound |
| Perc Westmore | Makeup Artist |
| Robert Lord | Associate Producer |
| Sherry Shourds | Assistant Director |
| Hal B. Wallis | Executive Producer |
| Orry-Kelly | Costume Design |
| Maxwell Anderson | Theatre Play |
| Jack L. Warner | Executive In Charge Of Production |
| Byron Haskin | Special Effects |
| Hans F. Koenekamp | Special Effects |
| W. Howard Greene | Assistant Director of Photography |
| Leo F. Forbstein | Music Director |
| Hugo Friedhofer | Orchestrator |
| Milan Roder | Orchestrator |
| Ali Hubert | Technical Advisor |
