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| Ben Cross | Harold M. Abrahams |
| Ian Charleson | Eric Liddell |
| John Gielgud | Master of Trinity (as Sir John Gielgud) |
| Nigel Havers | Lord Andrew Lindsay |
| Nicholas Farrell | Aubrey Montague |
| Ian Holm | Sam Mussabini |
| Lindsay Anderson | Master of Caius |
| Nigel Davenport | Lord Birkenhead |
| Cheryl Campbell | Jennie Liddell |
| Alice Krige | Sybil Gordon |
| Dennis Christopher | Charles Paddock |
| Brad Davis | Jackson Scholz |
| Patrick Magee | Lord Cadogan |
| Peter Egan | Duke of Sutherland |
| Struan Rodger | Sandy McGrath |
| David Yelland | Prince of Wales |
| Yves Beneyton | George Andre |
| Daniel Gerroll | Henry Stallard |
| Jeremy Sinden | President - Gilbert & Sullivan Society |
| Gordon Hammersley | President - Cambridge Athletic Club |
In the class-obsessed and religiously divided United Kingdom of the early 1920s, two determined young runners train for the 1924 Paris Olympics. Eric Liddell, a devout Christian born to Scottish missionaries in China, sees running as part of his worship of God's glory and refuses to train or compete on the Sabbath. Harold Abrahams overcomes anti-Semitism and class bias, but neglects his beloved sweetheart Sybil in his single-minded quest.
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