Jean Cocteau

The Poet

Edouard Dermithe

Cégeste

Henri Crémieux

The Professor

François Périer

Heurtebise

Claudine Auger

Minerve

Françoise Arnoul

Self (uncredited)

Lucia Bosè

Orphée's Friend

Charles Aznavour

The Curious Man

Brigitte Bardot

Self (uncredited)

Jean Marais

Oedipe

Daniel Gélin

The Intern (uncredited)

Françoise Christophe

The Nurse (uncredited)

Nicole Courcel

The Young Mother (uncredited)

Daniel Moosmann

2nd Man-Horse (uncredited)

Yul Brynner

Court Usher (uncredited)

Jean Cocteau