Christopher Lee

as Muhammad Ali Jinnah

James Fox

as Mountbatten

Maria Aitken

as Edwina

Shashi Kapoor

as Narrator

Richard Lintern

as Jinnah (Younger)

Indira Varma

as Ruttie Jinnah

Sam Dastor

as Gandhi

Robert Ashby

as Nehru

Shireen Shah

as Fatima Jinnah

Yousuf Kamal

as Liaquat Ali Khan (as Shakeel)

Ian Gelder

as English Police Officer

Michael Elwyn

as Sir Cyril Radcliffe

John Nettleton

as General Gracie

David Sterne

as Birwhistle

Vernon Dobtcheff

as Lord Willingdon

Rowena Cooper

as Lady Willingdon