Including Ron Haddrick (Ron Haddrick), Amber Mae Cecil (Sarah Wills / Redfern), Frank Waters (Edward Wills), Neil Fitzpatrick (Martin O'Brien), John Gray (Rev. Samuel Marsden), John Unicomb (Captain Henry Colden Antill), Walter Sullivan (John Macarthur), Margo Lee (Elizabeth Macarthur), Henry Gilbert (Governor Macquarie), Philip Ross / Earle Cross (William Charles Wentworth), Edward Howell (Dr D'Arcy Wentworth), Delia Williams (Mary O'Connell), and James Condon (Maurice O'Connell).
Philip Ross, playing William Charles Wentworth, was forced to withdraw partway through filming, when he was diagnosed with hepatitis. His role was taken by Earle Cross. (See '
Why Wentworth Looked Old',
Australian Women's Weekly, 26 July 1961, p.19).