
Sink the Bismarck!
Personal! Powerful! Human! Heroic!
The story of the breakout of the German battleship Bismarck—accompanied by the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen—during the early days of World War II. The Bismarck and her sister ship, Tirpitz, were the most powerful battleships in the European theater of World War II. The British Navy must find and destroy Bismarck before it can escape into the convoy lanes to inflict severe damage on the cargo shipping which was the lifeblood of the British Isles. With eight 15 inch guns, it was capable of destroying every ship in a convoy while remaining beyond the range of all Royal Navy warships.
Director Lewis Gilbert
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Cast

Michael Goodliffe
Captain Banister

Peter Burton
Captain Philip Vian - 4th Destroyer of Flotilla

Mark Burns
Naval Rating on Phone (uncredited)

Charles Houston
Airman - 'Ark Royal' (uncredited)

Geoffrey Keen
Assistant Chief of the Naval Staff (A.C.N.S.)

Robert Desmond
Dexter (uncredited)

John G. Heller
Lt. Becker on the 'Bismarck' (uncredited)

Laurence Naismith
First Sea Lord Admiral Sir Dudley Pound

Esmond Knight
Captain Leach - 'Prince of Wales'

Sean Barrett
Able Seaman Brown

Johnny Briggs
Seaman - 'Prince of Wales' (uncredited)

Sean Lynch
Mail Clerk - 'Ark Royal' (uncredited)

Ronald Leigh-Hunt
Somers - Officer 'King George V' (uncredited)

Maurice Denham
Commander Richards

Edward R. Murrow
Himself - Edward R. Murrow

John Barron
Officer P.R.O (uncredited)

Harold Goodwin
Airman on Phone (uncredited)

Cameron Hall
Civilian Worker - 'Prince of Wales' (uncredited)

Graham Stark
Petty Officer Williams (uncredited)

Roy Castle
Able Seaman - 'Prince of Wales' (uncredited)

John Bailey
Naval Officer (uncredited)

Ernest Clark
Captain Ellis - 'Suffolk'

Ian Hendry
Meteorological Officer on 'King George V' (uncredited)

Mark Dignam
Captain Maund - 'Ark Royal'

John Stride
Tom Shepard, Captain Shepard's son, TAG - Ark Royal's Swordfish Squadron (uncredited)

Walter Gotell
Signals Officer Mueller on the 'Bismarck' (uncredited)

Glyn Houston
Able Seaman - 'Prince of Wales' (uncredited)

Peter Forbes-Robertson
Signalman - 'Prince of Wales' (uncredited)

Peter Cellier
First Lieutenant - Destroyer (uncredited)

Jack Watling
RNVR Signals Officer

Walter Hudd
Admiral Holland - 'Hood'

Jack Gwillim
Captain Wilfrid Patterson - 'King George V'

Patrick Jordan
SOE Agent in Norway (uncredited)

Hugh Latimer
Commander - War Room (uncredited)

Dana Wynter
WRNS Second Officer Anne Davis

Carl Möhner
Captain Lindemann - 'Bismarck'

Michael Hordern
Admiral Sir John Tovey, Commander-in-Chief - 'King George'

Peter Dyneley
Commander Jenkins (uncredited)

Donald Churchill
Able Seaman - 'Ark Royal' (uncredited)

Victor Maddern
Able Seaman Outside Admiralty (uncredited)

Michael Ripper
Able Seaman - Lookout on 'Suffolk' (uncredited)

Michael Balfour
Able Seaman - Lookout on 'Suffolk' (uncredited)

John Stuart
Captain Kerr - 'Hood'

David Hemmings
Seaman - 'Ark Royal' (uncredited)

Bernard Lee
Firing Officer (uncredited)

Julian Somers
Civilian Worker - 'Prince of Wales' (uncredited)

Ronald Hines
Officer on Bridge of 'Prince of Wales' (uncredited)

Karl Stepanek
Admiral Lutjens - 'Bismarck'

Sydney Tafler
Henry - First Workman, 'Prince of Wales'

Edwin Richfield
Bridge Officer (uncredited)

Edward Judd
Navigating Officer - 'Prince of Wales' (uncredited)

Robert Brown
Gunnery Officer - 'King George V' (uncredited)

Kenneth More
Captain Jonathan Shepard

George Pravda
Damage Control Officer - Bismarck (uncredited)

Russell Napier
Air Vice Marshal (uncredited)

John Horsley
Captain - 'Sheffield'

Olaf Pooley
Officer of the Watch - 'Sheffield' (uncredited)

Norman Shelley
Voice of Winston Churchill (uncredited)

Sam Kydd
Civilian Worker - 'Prince of Wales' (uncredited)

Michael Sarne
Hoffman - 'Bismarck' (uncredited)