Pearl Mackie

Self - Narrator (voice)

Charlie Chaplin

Self (archive footage)

Jeff Rawle

Charlie Chaplin 1966

Matthew Wolf

Richard Meryman

Dickie Beau

Roddy McDowall

Anne Rosenfeld

Effie Wisdom

Dominic Marsh

Kevin Brownlow

Paul Leonard

Spokeperson

Eben Young

First Journalist

Haley Flaherty

Third Journalist

Alvah Bessie

Self (archive footage)

Herbert J. Biberman

Self (archive footage)

Geraldine Chaplin

Self (archive footage)

Jane Chaplin

Self (archive footage)

Michael Chaplin

Self (archive footage)

Oona O'Neill Chaplin

Self (archive footage)

Virginia Cherrill

Self (archive footage)

Jackie Coogan

Self (archive footage)

Alistair Cooke

Self (archive footage)

Walt Disney

Self (archive footage)

Adolf Hitler

Self (archive footage)

Mahatma Gandhi

Self (archive footage)

Paulette Goddard

Self (archive footage)

Lita Grey

Self (archive footage)

Mildred Harris

Self (archive footage)

J. Edgar Hoover

Self (archive footage)

Hedda Hopper

Self (archive footage)

Ring Lardner, Jr.

Self (archive footage)

Albert Maltz

Self (archive footage)

Joseph McCarthy

Self (archive footage)

Edna Purviance

Self (archive footage)

Paul Robeson

Self (archive footage)

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Self (archive footage)

Mack Sennett

Self (archive footage)

Robert Taylor

Self (archive footage)

Dalton Trumbo

Self (archive footage)

Orson Welles

Self (archive footage)

Effie Wisdom

Self (archive sound)

David Olawale Ayinde

Freelance Journalist (uncredited)

Charlie Carter

David Gill (uncredited)

Douglas Fairbanks Jr.

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Merv Griffin

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Oliver Hardy

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Al Jolson

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Buster Keaton

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Stan Laurel

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Sarah Lawn

Reporter 3 (uncredited)

Jack Lemmon

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Harold Lloyd

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)