Robert Harron

The Tender-Hearted Boy

Kate Bruce

The Tender-Hearted Boy's mother

Mae Marsh

The Tender-Hearted Boy's Sweetheart

W. Chrystie Miller

The Sweetheart's Father

John T. Dillon

The Butcher

Gertrude Norman

The Miser

Lionel Barrymore

(uncredited)

Alfred Paget

Policeman (uncredited)

D.W. Griffith