Cast[]
Americans[]
Actor | Role |
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Eddie Albert | Colonel Thompson, 29th Infantry Division |
Paul Anka | U.S. Army Ranger |
Richard Beymer | Private Arthur 'Dutch' Schultz, 82nd Airborne Division |
Red Buttons | Private John Steele, 82nd Airborne Division |
Ray Danton | Captain Frank |
Fred Dur | U.S. Army Ranger Major |
Fabian Forte | U.S. Army Ranger |
Mel Ferrer | Major General Robert Haines |
Henry Fonda | Brigadier General Theodore Roosevelt Jr., Deputy Commander 4th Infantry Div. |
Steve Forrest | Captain Harding, 82nd Airborne Division |
Henry Grace | General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Supreme Allied Commander |
Peter Helm | Young GI |
Jeffrey Hunter ( | Sergeant (later Lt.) John H. Fuller |
Alexander Knox | Lieutenant General Walter Bedell Smith, SHAEF Chief of Staff |
Dewey Martin | Private Wilder (role cut from released version) |
Roddy McDowall | Private Morris, 4th Infantry Division |
John Meillon | Admiral Alan G. Kirk, Senior U.S. Naval Commander |
Sal Mineo | Private Martini |
Robert Mitchum | Brigadier General Norman Cota, Asst. Commander 29th Infantry Div. |
Edmond O'Brien | Major General Raymond O. Barton, Commander 4th Infantry Div. |
Ron Randell | Joe Williams |
Robert Ryan | Brigadier General James M. Gavin, Asst. Commander 82nd Airborne Div. |
Tommy Sands | U.S. Army Ranger |
George Segal | U.S. Army Ranger |
Rod Steiger | Destroyer Commander |
Nicholas Stuart | Lieutenant General Omar N. Bradley, Commander US First Army |
Tom Tryon | Lieutenant Wilson, 82nd Airborne Division |
Robert Wagner | U.S. Army Ranger |
John Wayne | Lt. Col. Benjamin Vandervoort, Commander 2nd Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry Reg. |
Stuart Whitman | Lieutenant Sheen, 82nd Airborne Division |
British[]
Actor | Role |
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Patrick Barr | Group Captain J.M. Stagg |
Richard Burton | Flying Officer David Campbell |
Bryan Coleman | Ronald Callen |
Sean Connery | Private Flanagan |
Leslie de Laspee | Private Bill Millin, No. 4 Commando (Piper on Beach) |
Frank Finlay | Private Coke, 2nd Oxford & Bucks L.I. |
Leo Genn | Brigadier Edwin P. Parker Jr. |
Harold Goodwin | Private, 2nd Oxford & Bucks L.I. |
John Gregson | British military chaplain 6th Airborne Division |
Donald Houston | RAF pilot at flight base |
Simon Lack | Air Chief Marshal Trafford Leigh-Mallory, Commander Allied Air Forces |
Peter Lawford | Brigadier Lord Lovat, Commander 1st Special Service Brigade |
Howard Marion-Crawford | Dr. Vaughan, 2nd Oxford & Bucks L.I. |
Michael Medwin | Private Watney, 3rd Infantry Division |
Kenneth More | Capt. Colin Maud Royal Navy beach master |
Louis Mounier | Air Marshal Arthur William Tedder, Deputy Supreme Allied Commander |
Leslie Phillips | Royal Air Force officer |
Trevor Reid | General Bernard Montgomery, Commander Allied Ground Forces |
John Robinson | Admiral Bertram Ramsay, Commander Allied Naval Forces |
Norman Rossington | Private Clough |
Richard Todd | Major John Howard, CO 2nd Oxford & Bucks L.I. |
Richard Wattis | British Paratrooper officer, 6th Airborne Division |