Actor | Role |
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Eddie Albert | Colonel Thompson, 29th Infantry Division |
Paul Anka | Private, 2nd Ranger Battalion |
Richard Beymer | Private Arthur 'Dutch' Schultz, 82nd Airborne Division |
Red Buttons | Private John Steele, 2nd Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment |
Gary Collins | Officer on destroyer bridge (uncredited) |
John Crawford | Colonel Eugene Caffey, Commander, 1st Engineer Special Brigade (uncredited) |
Mark Damon | Private Harris (uncredited) |
Ray Danton | Captain Frank, 29th Infantry Division |
Fred Dur | Major, 2nd Ranger Battalion |
Fabian | Private, 2nd Ranger Battalion |
Mel Ferrer | Major General Robert Haines, Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force (SHAEF) |
Henry Fonda | Brigadier General Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., Assistant Commander, 4th Infantry Division |
Steve Forrest | Captain Harding, 2nd Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment |
Henry Grace (dubbed by Allen Swift) | General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Supreme Commander, Allied Expeditionary Forces (uncredited) |
Peter Helm | Young private, 29th Infantry Division |
Jeffrey Hunter | Sergeant John H. Fuller (later field promoted to lieutenant), combat engineer, 29th Infantry Division |
Alexander Knox | Lieutenant General Walter Bedell Smith, Chief of Staff, SHAEF |
Mickey Knox | Downed Airman, (uncredited) |
Dewey Martin | Private Wilder, 4th Infantry Division (scenes deleted) |
Roddy McDowall | Private Morris, 4th Infantry Division |
John Meillon | Rear Admiral Alan G. Kirk, Commander, U.S. Naval Forces (uncredited) |
Sal Mineo | Private Martini, 82nd Airborne Division |
Robert Mitchum | Brigadier General Norman Cota, Assistant Commander, 29th Infantry Division |
Tony Mordente | Cook, 82nd Airborne Division (uncredited) |
Bill Nagy | Major, 2nd Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment |
Edmond O'Brien | Major General Raymond O. Barton, Commander, 4th Infantry Division |
Ron Randell | Joe Williams, war correspondent |
Robert Ryan | Brigadier General James M. Gavin, Assistant Commander, 82nd Airborne Division |
Tommy Sands | Private, 2nd Ranger Battalion |
George Segal | Private, 2nd Ranger Battalion |
Bob Steele | Paratrooper, 82nd Airborne Division (uncredited) |
Rod Steiger | Destroyer commander, United States Navy |
Nicholas Stuart | Lieutenant General Omar N. Bradley, Commander, First Army (uncredited) |
Tom Tryon | Lieutenant Wilson, 2nd Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment |
Robert Wagner | Private, 2nd Ranger Battalion |
Joe Warfield | Army medic (uncredited) |
John Wayne | Lieutenant Colonel Benjamin H. Vandervoort, CO, 2nd Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment |
Stuart Whitman | Lieutenant Sheen, 2nd Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment |