Henry Fonda
(Admiral Chester W. Nimitz),
Charlton Heston
(Captain Matt Garth),
Robert Mitchum
(Admiral William F. Halsey),
James Coburn
(Captain Vinton Maddox),
Glenn Ford
(Rear Admiral Raymond A. Spruance),
Hal Holbrook
(Commander Joseph Rochefort),
Toshirô Mifune
(Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto),
Robert Wagner
(Lieutenant Commander Ernest L. Blake),
Kevin Dobson
(Ensign George Gay),
Glenn Corbett
(Lieutenant Commander John Waldron),
Christopher George
(Lieutenant Commander C. Wade McClusky),
Christina Kokubo
(Haruko Sakura),
Monte Markham
(Commander Max Leslie),
Biff McGuire
(Captain Miles Browning),
Ed Nelson
(Admiral Harry Pearson),
Cliff Robertson
(Commander Carl Jessop),
James Shigeta
(Vice Admiral Chuichi Nagumo),
Robert Webber
(Rear Admiral Frank J. 'Jack' Fletcher)