Sophia Loren

Lucilla

Stephen Boyd

Livius

Alec Guinness

Marcus Aurelius

James Mason

Timonides

Christopher Plummer

Commodus

Anthony Quayle

Verulus

John Ireland

Ballomar

Omar Sharif

Sohamus

Mel Ferrer

Cleander

Eric Porter

Julianus

Finlay Currie

Senator

Andrew Keir

Polybius

Douglas Wilmer

Niger

George Murcell

Victorinus

Norman Wooland

Virgilianus

Michael Gwynn

Cornelius

Virgílio Teixeira

Marcellus

Peter Damon

Claudius

Rafael Luis Calvo

Lentulus

Lena von Martens

Helva

Roland Carey

Barbarian (uncredited)

Margaret Fuller

Part of Court (uncredited)

Mario Ghignone

Gladiators Trainer (uncredited)

Gabriella Licudi

Tauna (uncredited)

Jeffrey O'Kelly

Brother of Livius (uncredited)

Robert Rietti

Opening Narrator (voice / uncredited)

Guy Rolfe

Marius (uncredited)

José Terrón

Soldier on Horse (uncredited)

Friedrich von Ledebur

Barbarian (uncredited)

Patricia Wright

Roman Citizen, Slave Woman (uncredited)

Anthony Mann

Director

Andrew Marton

Second Unit Director

Herbert Taylor

Orchestrator

Dimitri Tiomkin

Conductor

Cecil Bolton

Orchestrator

Samuel Bronston

Presenter

Julio Sempere

Second Second Assistant Director

George Parrish

Orchestrator

David Tamkin

Orchestrator

Mauro Sacripanti

Second Assistant Director

Frank Comstock

Orchestrator

Robert Docker

Orchestrator

Ben Barzman

Screenplay

Veniero Colasanti

Production Design

Philip Yordan

Screenplay

Maude Spector

Casting

Robert Krasker

Director of Photography

John Moore

Production Design

John Moore

Set Decoration

Edward Gibbon

Author

John Moore

Costume Design

Samuel Bronston

Producer

Jaime Prades

Associate Producer

Basilio Franchina

Screenplay

Dimitri Tiomkin

Original Music Composer

Robert Lawrence

Editor

Veniero Colasanti

Set Decoration

Veniero Colasanti

Costume Design

Yakima Canutt

Stunt Coordinator

C.O. Erickson

Production Manager

Cecilio Paniagua

Second Unit Cinematographer

David Hildyard

Sound Mixer

John Harris

Camera Operator

Milton C. Burrow

Sound Effects Editor

Alex Weldon

Special Effects

Bruno Pasqualini

Electrician

José María Ochoa

Assistant Director

Gordon K. McCallum

Sound Re-Recording Mixer

Maciek Piotrowski

Title Illustration

Magdalena Paradell

Assistant Editor

George Korngold

Music Editor

Stanley Detlie

Property Master

Gloria Mussetta

Wardrobe Master

Mario Van Riel

Makeup Artist

Will Durant

Technical Advisor

Michał Waszyński

Associate Producer

Grazia De Rossi

Hairdresser

Elaine Schreyeck

Continuity

José López Rodero

Assistant Director

Carl Gibson

Technical Supervisor

George Tyne

Dialogue Coach

Yakima Canutt

Second Unit Director