Casting et équipe

Alec GuinnessGeorge Smiley

Michael JaystonPeter Guillam

Anthony BateSir Oliver Lacon

George SewellMendel

Bernard HeptonToby Esterhase

Robert MacNeilSelf – Host (uncredited)

Ian RichardsonBill Haydon

Hywel BennettRicki Tarr

Michael AldridgePercy Alleline

Terence RigbyRoy Bland

Ian BannenJim Prideaux

AS

Alec SabinFawn

Beryl ReidConnie Sachs

Alexander KnoxControl

DJ

Duncan JonesRoach

DB

Daniel BeecherSpikely

FC

Frank ComptonBryant

Frank MooreyLauder Strickland

JW

John WellsHeadmaster

TP

Terry PearsonSchoolmaster (uncredited)

Nigel StockRoddy Martindale

Milos KirekBarak

Eugene LipinskiCzech Guard

BH

Brian HawksleyBookseller

Thorley WaltersTufty Thessinger

SK

Susan KodicekIrina

HM

Hilary MinsterBoris

PL

Pauline LettsMrs Pope-Graham

SE

Stephen EarleNorman

TS

Timothy StetsonThe American

JR

Jean RimmerSenior Secretary

Patrick StewartKarla

MH

Marjorie HoganAlisa Brimley

JP

Joe PramlPaul Skordeno

Warren ClarkeAlwyn

John StandingSam Collins

MC

Mandy CuthbertMolly Purcell

Joss AcklandJerry Westerby

Guy StandevenFlemyng-Smith

BH

Betty HardyHeadmaster's Mother

JA

Jo AptedLinda

Siân PhillipsAnn Smiley

George PravdaPolyakov

RT

Reg ThomasonReception (uncredited)

Michael FishSelf (archive footage)