John Nesbitt

as Narrator (voice)

Mary Gordon

as Woman Reading Newspaper (archive footage) (uncredited)

John Hubbard

as Man in Zenger's Shop (archive footage) (uncredited)

Victor Kilian

as John Peter Zenger (archive footage) (uncredited)

Michael Mark

as Fisherman (archive footage) (uncredited)

Mary McLeod

as Mary, Queen of Scots (archive footage) (uncredited)

Leonard Mudie

as Townsman (archive footage) (uncredited)

Leonard Penn

as Louis XIV (archive footage) (uncredited)