| Cast list |
| Steve McQueen | as | Capt. Hilts "The Cooler King" |
| James Garner | as | Flight Lt. Hendley "The Scrounger" |
| Richard Attenborough | as | Squadron Leader Roger Bartlett "Big X" |
| James Donald | as | Group Capt. Ramsey "The SBO" |
| Charles Bronson | as | Flight Lt. Danny Velinski "The Tunnel King" |
| Donald Pleasence | as | Flight Lt. Colin Blythe "The Forger" |
| James Coburn | as | Flying Officer Louis Sedgwick "The Manufacturer" |
| Hannes Messemer | as | Col. von Luger |
| David McCallum | as | Lt. Cmdr. Eric Ashley-Pitt "Dispersal" |
| Gordon Jackson | as | Flight Lt. Sandy MacDonald "Intelligence" |
| John Leyton | as | Flight Lt. William Dickes "The Tunneler" |
| Angus Lennie | as | Flying Officer Archibald Ives "The Mole" |
| Nigel Stock | as | Flight Lt. Denys Cavendish "The Surveyor" |
| Robert Graf | as | Werner 'The Ferret' |
| Jud Taylor | as | Goff |
