Billy Budd

John Claggart - Master of Arms

Edwin Fairfax Vere - Post Captain Royal Navy

The Dansker - Sailmaker

Philip Seymour - First Lieutenant

Julian Radcliffe - Second Lieutenant

Enoch Jenkins - Maintopman

Squeak - Assistant to Mr. Claggart

Alan Payne - Maintopman

William O'Daniel - Maintopman (as Ray McAnnally)

Arnold Talbot - Maintopman

Neil Kincaid - Maintopman

Alfred Hallam - Captain of Marines

Nathaniel Graveling - Ship's Master, Rights of Man (as Niall McGinnis)

Amos Leonard - First Mate, Rights of Man

Charles Mathews - Merchant Seaman, Rights of Man

Billy Budd - Merchant Seaman, Rights of Man

Dubbing

Marine (uncredited)

Young Rating (uncredited)

Finnish censorship visa # 66146.

Independent producer Frank Gilbert acquired the screen rights in 1956 and assigned the adaptation to DeWitt Bodeen. The rights were later sold to independent producer/director Robert Rossen, who worked with Bodeen on a second screenplay. By the time it reached the screen in 1962, it had been sold to Peter Ustinov, who wrote the final shooting script but gave Bodenn a co-writer credit.

French visa # 26957.

Captain Vere: Master-at-Arms, you possess too much knowledge for such a lowly post.

Captain Vere: In the question of Jenkins, Budd was telling the truth.

Captain Vere: I am just a man, not fit to do the work of God... or the Devil.