Fredric March
Jean Valjean / Champmathieu
Charles Laughton
Inspector Emile Javert
Cedric Hardwicke
Bishop Bienvenue (as Sir Cedric Hardwicke)
Rochelle Hudson
Cosette
Florence Eldridge
Fantine
Frances Drake
Eponine
John Beal
Marius
Jessie Ralph
Madame Magloire
Mary Forbes
Mlle. Baptiseme
Florence Roberts
Toussaint
Ferdinand Gottschalk
Thenardier
Marilyn Knowlden
Little Cosette (as Marilynne Knowlden)
John Bleifer
Chenildieu
Eily Malyon
Mother Superior
John Carradine
Enjolras
Bess Flowers
Trial Spectator (uncredited)
Robert Greig
Prison Governor at Jean's Release (uncredited)
Everett Brown
Black Convict
Leonid Kinskey
Genflou
Harry Semels
Cochepaille
Vernon Downing
Brissac
Reginald Barlow
Henri
George Barraud
Prosecutor in Arras
Stanley Blystone
Gendarme in Prefect's Office
Sidney Bracey
Mayor's Clerk
Herbert Bunston
Judge at Favorelles
William P. Carleton
First Judge in Arras
Stephen Chase
Gendarme at Bishop's Home
Davison Clark
Marcin
Heinie Conklin
Drunk at Inn
Harry Cording
Beam Warder
Jack Curtis
Gendarme in Prefect's Office
Joe De Stefani
Usher in Arras Courtroom / Old Clerk in Arras
William Elmer
Lawyer
Al Ferguson
Gendarme
Budd Fine
Galley Fight Warder
Olin Francis
Galley Whip Warder
Christian J. Frank
Gendarme Investigator
Robert Greig
Prison Governor at Jean's Release
George Guhl
Onlooker
Frank Hagney
Galley Prisoner
Gertrude Hoffmann
Nurse
Virginia Howell
Old Beggarwoman Directing Jean to Bishop
Olaf Hytten
Pierre
John Ince
Third Judge in Arras
Ethan Laidlaw
Gendarme at Bishop's Home
Wilfred Lucas
Onlooker
Mary MacLaren
Nurse
George MacQuarrie
Doorman at Arras
Murdock MacQuarrie
Fauchelevant
James Pier Mason
Galley Prisoner
Philo McCullough
Galley Whip Warder
J.P. McGowan
Javert's Plainclothesman
Leonard Mudie
Priest Counselling Released Prisoners
John Northpole
Gendarme in Prefect's Office
G. Raymond Nye
Jacques
Frederick Peters
Galley Whip Warder
Albert Prisco
Galley Prisoner