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

Jane Kerr

Madame Thenardier

Ferdinand Gottschalk

Thenardier

Charles Haefeli

Brevet

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)

Kai Schmidt

Lawyer (uncredited)

Everett Brown

Black Convict

Leonid Kinskey

Genflou

Harry Semels

Cochepaille

Ian Maclaren

Head Gardener

Vernon Downing

Brissac

Lyons Wickland

Lamarque

Herbert Ashley

Drunk at Inn

Sam Baker

Black Convict

Elmer Ballard

Court Clerk

Reginald Barlow

Henri

George Barraud

Prosecutor in Arras

Leon Beaumon

Gendarme in Prefect's Office

Margaret Bloodgood

Factory Forewoman

Stanley Blystone

Gendarme in Prefect's Office

Sidney Bracey

Mayor's Clerk

Herbert Bunston

Judge at Favorelles

Ray Burgess

Gendarme in Prefect's Office

William P. Carleton

First Judge in Arras

Phillip Cash

Galley Carpenter Warders

Kathleen Chambers

Jean's Paris Servant After Convent

Stephen Chase

Gendarme at Bishop's Home

Davison Clark

Marcin

Gilbert Clayton

Duchaine

Heinie Conklin

Drunk at Inn

Maxine Cook

Thernardier's Child

Harry Cording

Beam Warder

J. Gunnis Davis

Defense Consul in Arras

Jack Curtis

Gendarme in Prefect's Office

Joe De Stefani

Usher in Arras Courtroom / Old Clerk in Arras

Lowell Drew

Duval

David Dunbar

Gendarme in Prefect's Office

Cecil Elliott

Concierge

William Elmer

Lawyer

Arthur Evers

Court Clerk

Al Ferguson

Gendarme

Raúl Figarola

Lawyer

Budd Fine

Galley Fight Warder

Olin Francis

Galley Whip Warder

Christian J. Frank

Gendarme Investigator

Roger Gray

Gendarme at Inn

Robert Greig

Prison Governor at Jean's Release

George Guhl

Onlooker

Frank Hagney

Galley Prisoner

Lew Hicks

Gendarme in Prefect's Office

Keith Hitchcock

Senior Prefect Confirming Gendarme Appointments

Gertrude Hoffmann

Nurse

Virginia Howell

Old Beggarwoman Directing Jean to Bishop

Olaf Hytten

Pierre

John Ince

Third Judge in Arras

E. Midge Ingleton

Peasant Woman on Road

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

Frank McCarroll

Javert's Aide in Chase

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

Francis Powers

Lawyer

Albert Prisco

Galley Prisoner