 | Major John Colby | Michael Caine | |
 | Captain Robert Hatch | Sylvester Stallone | |
 | Major Karl Von Steiner | Max Von Sydow | |
 | Colonel Waldron (The senior British officer) | Daniel Massey | |
 | Major Rose (Head of the Intelligence committee) | Tim Pigott-Smith | |
 | Wing Commander Shurlock (Head of the Escape committee) | Julian Curry | |
 | The Forger | Clive Merrison | |
 | Pyrie | Maurice Roëves | |
 | Luis Fernandez | Pelé | |
 | Terry Brady | Bobby Moore | |
 | Arthur Hayes | John Wark | |
 | Pieter Van Beck | Co Prins | |
 | Sid Harmor | Mike Summerbee | |
 | Schmidt (German GK) | Laurie Sivell | |
 | Strauss* (German No 10) | Robin Turner | |
 | Carlos Rey | Osvaldo Ardiles | |
 | Paul Wolchek | Kazimierz Denya | |
 | Michel Fileu | Paul Van Himst | |
 | Erik Borge** | Søren Lindsted | |
 | Doug Clure | Russell Osman | |
 | Tony Lewis | Kevin O’Callaghan | |
 | Baumann | Werner Roth | |
 | POW Camp Kommendant | George Mikell | |
 | Andre | Amidou | |
 | Lutz (German SS) | Arthur Brauss | |
 | Strauss (German Senior Lieutenant) | David Shawyer | |
 | Herr Lorenz (Propaganda) | Jürgen Andersen | |
 | Jean Paul | Benoît Ferreux | |
 | Renee | Carole Laure | |
 | Claude | Jean-François Stévenin | |
| Victor | Zoltan Gera (as Folton Gera) | |
 | Gunnar Hilsson | Hallvar Thoresen | |
 | Coach Mueller | Gary Waldhorn | |
 | Lang | Michael Wolf | |
| *Michael Caine’s Body Double | Kevin Beattie | |
| *Sylvester Stallones’s Body Double | Paul Cooper | |
| Directed by | John Huston | ||
| Writing Credits | Evan Jones Yabo Yablonski | ||
| Produced by | Freddie Fields | ||
| Original music by | Bill Conti | ||
| Cinematography by | Gerry Fisher | ||
| Film Editing by | Roberto Silvi | ||
| Production Design by | J. Dennis Washington | ||
| Sound consultant | Stephen Katz | ||
| Scoring mixer | Dan Wallin | ||
| Production Company | Lorimar Film Entertainment |
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*Although there is an actor down in the movie’s end credits for the Germans called Strauss (David Shawyer) I have a feeling he played another character called Strauss, one of the German officers mentioned at the start on the right of the red cross doctors.
I’m basing calling Robin Turner’s character (the German number 10) Strauss also from the commentator in the match saying, “Michael Strauss of Dusseldorf” as the scorer of the Germans second goal (Though this is another one of those ones where the edit of the football scenes just after causes a bit of confusion. The official credits have Turner down simply as player which is a bit of a disservice.)
**Imdb calls Søren Lindsted’s character The Players: Denmark – Erik Ball, I think this was a mistake and his character’s name was Erik Borge though at this point I can’t find or remember the research that led to this conclusion. I’m going to leave this for now though.