
Casts

Frederick Culley
as Roger Bacon

Laurence Olivier
as Vincent Lunardi

Franklin Dyall
as Jerome de Ascoli

Hay Petrie
as Tiberius Cavallo

John Turnbull
as Von Zeppelin

Alan Wheatley
as Giovanni Alfonso Borelli

John Abbott
as Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier

Charles Frend
as Narrator (voice)

Edward Ashley
as (uncredited)

Andrea Checchi
as Zoroastro (uncredited)