The Missionary

Michael Palin

The Reverend Charles Fortescue

Maggie Smith

Lady Isabel Ames

Trevor Howard

Lord Henry Ames

Denholm Elliott

The Bishop of London

Graham Crowden

Fitzbanks

Phoebe Nicholls

Deborah Fitzbanks

Michael Hordern

Slatterthewaite/Narrator

David Suchet

Corbett

Timothy Spall

Parswell

Tricia George

Ada

Valerie Whittington

Emmeline

Roland Culver

Lord Fermleigh

Rosamund Greenwood

Lady Fermleigh

Janine Duvitski

Millicent