"This classic film reveals how the great composer Georg Friedrich Handel rose above the personal anguish and difficulties in his life to create the sublime musical composition, The Messiah."
Wilfrid Lawson
as George Frideric Handel
Elizabeth Allan
as Mrs. Cibber
Malcolm Keen
as Lord Chesterfield
Michael Shepley
as Sir Charles Marsham
Max Kirby
as Frederick, Prince of Wales
Hay Petrie
as Phineas
Morris Harvey
as John Heidegger
A.E. Matthews
as Charles Jennens
Frederick Cooper
as Pooley
Andrew Leigh
as Captain Coram
Robert Atkins
as
H.F. Maltby
Ivan Samson
Charles Groves
Alfred Sangster
D.J. Williams
as Leader of performance wreckers
Michael Hunt
as The Kytch Boys
Alan Wren
Amy Dalby
Trefor Jones
as Singer
Alfred Harris
Dorothy Vernon
Charles Doe
Frank Atkinson
as Permobble
Leonard Sharp
Judith Nelmes
Jean Stanley
Victor MacLure
Hyma Beckley
as Man Buying Oranges
Maureen Chamberlain
as Child
Toni Gable
as Lady
Kenneth Griffith
Martita Hunt
as Chorister
Gladys Ripley
as Mrs. Cibber (singing voice)
Jack Cardiff
Cinematography
Norman Walker
Director
Claude Friese-Greene
James B. Sloan
Producer
Sidney Gausden
Art Direction
Sam Simmonds
Editor
John Cook
Sound Recordist