Cast
W. Somerset Maugham
Himself
Jack Raine
Thomas (segment "The Facts of Life")
James Robertson Justice
Branksome (segment "The Facts of Life")
Bernard Lee
Ned Preston, a Prison Visitor (segment "The Kite")
Cecil Parker
Colonel George Peregrine (segment "The Colonel's Lady")
Clive Morton
Henry Blane (segment "The Colonel's Lady")
Margaret Withers
Gushing Woman (segment "The Colonel's Lady")
Yvonne Owen
1st. Gossip (segment "The Colonel's Lady")
Jack Watling
Nicky Garnet (segment "The Facts of Life")
Raymond Lovell
Sir Frederick Bland (segment "The Alien Corn")
Frederick Leister
Prison Governor (segment "The Kite")
Hal Osmond
Bookshop Assistant (segment "The Colonel's Lady")
Ernest Butcher
Blane's Clerk (segment "The Colonel's Lady")
George Cole
Herbert Sunbury (segment "The Kite")
Basil Radford
Henry Garnet (segment "The Facts of Life")
Nigel Buchanan
John (segment "The Facts of Life")
Irene Browne
Lady Bland (segment "The Alien Corn")
Cyril Chamberlain
Reporter (segment "The Kite")
Maurice Denham
Coroner (segment "The Alien Corn")
James Hayter
Foreman of the Jury (segment "The Alien Corn")
Ernest Thesiger
Henry Dashwood (segment "The Colonel's Lady")
Henry Edwards
Duke of Heverel (segment "The Colonel's Lady")
J.H. Roberts
West (segment "The Colonel's Lady")
Naunton Wayne
Leslie (segment "The Facts of Life")
Françoise Rosay
Lea Makart (segment "The Alien Corn")
Susan Shaw
Betty Baker Sunbury (segment "The Kite")
Wilfrid Hyde-White
2nd. Club Man (segment "The Colonel's Lady")
Ian Fleming
Ralph (segment "The Facts of Life")
George Merritt
Prison Officer (segment "The Kite")
Hermione Baddeley
Beatrice Sunbury (segment "The Kite")
Mervyn Johns
Samuel Sunbury (segment "The Kite")
Felix Aylmer
Martin (segment "The Colonel's Lady")
John Salew
John Coleman (critic) (segment "The Colonel's Lady")
Honor Blackman
Paula (segment "The Alien Corn")
Dirk Bogarde
George Bland (segment "The Alien Corn")
Mary Hinton
Aunt Maud (segment "The Alien Corn")
Linden Travers
Daphne (segment "The Colonel's Lady")
Cyril Raymond
Railway Passenger (segment "The Colonel's Lady")
Marcel Poncin
Frenchman (segment "The Alien Corn")
Mai Zetterling
Jeanne (segment "The Facts of Life")
Nora Swinburne
Mrs. Evie Katherine Peregrine (segment "The Colonel's Lady")
Johnny Briggs
Boy on Common (segment "The Kite")