Richard Burton

as SS-Obersturmbannführer Herbert Kappler

Marcello Mastroianni

as Father Pietro Antonelli

Peter Vaughan

as Field Marshal Albert Kesselring

Leo McKern

as Gen. Kurt Maelzer

John Steiner

as SS-Standartenführer Eugen Dollmann

Anthony Steel

as SS-Sturmbannführer Domizlaf

Robert Harris

as Father Pancrazio

Anthony Dawson

as SS-Brigadeführer Wilhelm Harster

Guidarino Guidi

as Interior Minister Guido Buffarini Guidi

Renzo Montagnani

as Police Chief "Questore" Pietro Caruso

Dennis Burgess

as SS-Obersturmführer Schultz

Brook Williams

as SS-Hauptsturmführer Erich Priebke

Giancarlo Prete

as Paolo

Delia Boccardo

as Elena

Renzo Palmer

as Giorgio

Duilio Del Prete

as Partisan

Gustavo De Nardo

Douglas Hare

as Young German Soldier

Carlos de Carvalho

Jacques Herlin

as Giovanni

Shirley Corrigan

Massimo Sarchielli

as First partisan with watch on Via Rasella's window

Anthony Dawson

as Lt. Col. Harster

Kippy Lancaster

Nazzareno Natale

as Partisan with glasses

Luigi Antonio Guerra

Fiore Altoviti

Ugo Cardea

as Partisan

Luca Bonicalzi

Giuliano Petrelli

Marino Masé

as Third partisan in Via rasella's window

Orazio Stracuzzi

as Partisan with machine gun

Adolfo Lastretti

as Man in via Rasella

Enzo Consoli

as Real street cleaner in Via Rasella

Arnaldo Caivano

as Ardeatine Massacre Victim (uncredited)

Regina Elena Bisio

as Old Lady Carried Out (uncredited)