Cast and credits of The Bridge on the River Kwai

Directed by

David Lean

Starring

William Holden
Shears

Alec Guinness
Colonel Nicholson

Jack Hawkins
Major Warden

Sessue Hayakawa
Colonel Saito

James Donald
Major Clipton

Geoffrey Horne
Lieutenant Joyce

André Morell
Colonel Green (as Andre Morell)

Peter Williams
Captain Reeves

John Boxer
Major Hughes

Percy Herbert
Grogan

Harold Goodwin
Baker

Ann Sears
Nurse

Heihachirô Ôkawa
Captain Kanematsu (as Henry Okawa)

Tsai Chin
Tokyo Rose (voice) (uncredited)

Written by

Pierre Boulle
(novel Le pont de la rivière Kwaï)

Carl Foreman
screenplay (originally uncredited)

Michael Wilson
screenplay (originally uncredited)