Jean Gabin

Jean Valjean / Champmathieu

Bernard Blier

Javert father / Javert son

Béatrice Altariba

Cosette

Giani Esposito

Marius de Pontmercy

Bourvil

Thénardier

Silvia Monfort

Éponine Thénardier

Danièle Delorme

Fantine

Elfriede Florin

La Thénardier

Serge Reggiani

Enjolras

Fernand Ledoux

Monsignor Bienvenu Myriel

Madeleine Barbulée

Sister Simplice

Martine Havet

Cosette at 8 years old

Lucien Baroux

Monsieur Gillenormand

Julienne Paroli

Madame Magloire

Jean Ozenne

Prefect of Montreuil-sur-Mer

Jimmy Urbain

Gavroche

Gérard Darrieu

Feuilly, revolutionary

Jacques Harden

Courfeyrac

Marc Eyraud

Grantaire, revolutionary

Pierre Tabard

Prouvaire

Jean Murat

Colonel-Baron Georges Pontmercy

Gerhard Bienert

President of the Arras court

Henri Guégan

Laigle, friend of the ABC

Harry Hindemith

Convict Cochepaille

Bernard Musson

Bamatabois, bourgeois

Gabrielle Fontan

Mother superior of the convent

Paul Villé

Basque

Edmond Ardisson

Gendarmerie brigadier

Christian Fourcade

'Petit-Pierre', little chimney sweep

Robert Bazil

Commissioner

Louis Arbessier

Police prefect

Laure Paillette

Toussainte, servant of rue Plumet

Jean d'Yd

Father Mabeuf

Émile Genevois

Coachman of the omnibus

François Darbon

Doctor

Jean Topart

Narrator (voice)

Pierre Moncorbier

Mag-Avril

Monsieur Madeleine's servant

Julien Maffre

Rodolphe Marcilly

Bailiff

Jacques Marin

Monsieur Madeleine's secretary

Henri Coutet

Carter

Palmyre Levasseur

Sister Perpétue

Paul Bonifas

Hospital doctor

André Dalibert

Peasant with the horse in Montfermeil

Marcel Rouzé

André Wasley

Édouard Francomme

Town hall secretary

Georges Atlas

Arlette Mirapeu

Horst Buder

Ernast (uncredited)

Werner Dissel

Brevet (uncredited)

Waltraut Kramm

Waitress (uncredited)

Rolf Moebius

General advocate (uncredited)

Kurt Mühlhardt

Assessor (uncredited)

Nico Turoff

Chenildieu (uncredited)

Max Doria

Doorman (uncredited)

Christian Lude

Commissioner of Val-de-Grâce (uncredited)

Paul Faivre

Gillenormand's coachman (uncredit)

Robert Porte

Paget (uncredited)

Christian Brocard

(uncredited)

Harold Conway

(uncredited)

Jean-Paul Le Chanois

(uncredited)

Allain Dhurtal

(uncredited)

Jean Sylvère

(uncredited)