Jean Cocteau

The Poet

Edouard Dermithe

Cégeste

Henri Crémieux

The Professor

François Périer

Heurtebise

Claudine Auger

Minerve

Françoise Arnoul

Self (uncredited)

Lucia Bosè

Orphée's Friend

Charles Aznavour

The Curious Man

Brigitte Bardot

Self (uncredited)

Jean Marais

Oedipe

Daniel Gélin

The Intern (uncredited)

Françoise Christophe

The Nurse (uncredited)

Nicole Courcel

The Young Mother (uncredited)

Daniel Moosmann

2nd Man-Horse (uncredited)

Yul Brynner

Court Usher (uncredited)

Pablo Picasso

A friend of Orphée (uncredited)

Michael Goodliffe

English Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

Jean-Pierre Léaud

Dargelos, the schoolboy

Alice Sapritch

Gypsy (uncredited)

Roger Vadim

Self (uncredited)

Françoise Sagan

A friend of Orphée (uncredited)

Annette Stroyberg

A friend of Orphée (uncredited)

Marie-Josèphe Yoyotte

Gypsy (uncredited)

María Casares

The Princess

Jean Cocteau

Writer

Marie-Josèphe Yoyotte

Editor

Jean Cocteau

Director

Janine Janet

Costume Design

Irénée Leriche

Production Manager

Pierre-André Bertrand

Sound

Pierre Guffroy

Production Design

Alexandre Marcus

Makeup Artist

Roland Pontoizeau

Director of Photography

Michel Mombailly

Unit Manager

François Truffaut

Associate Producer

René Sarazin

Sound

Jean Thuillier

Producer

Balenciaga

Costume Designer

Francis Caillaud

Assistant Director