Editing A Canterbury Tale (section)

==Cast==
[[File:ACT Characters.jpg|thumb|250px|right|Gibbs, Johnson and Smith<br />The Seven Sisters Soldier is standing behind Peter & Bob and Sergt. 'Stuffy' (''[[Graham Moffatt]]'') is asleep]]
* [[Eric Portman]] as Thomas Colpeper, a gentleman farmer and [[Justice of the Peace|magistrate]] in Chillingbourne. He is a bachelor, living with his mother and, being very keen on the local history of the area, wants to share that knowledge with everyone around him, particularly with the soldiers from elsewhere in Britain who have been billeted nearby.
* [[John Sweet (actor)|Sgt. John Sweet, U.S. Army]] as Acting Sgt. Bob Johnson, ASN 31036062, hails from [[Three Sisters (Oregon)|Three Sisters Falls]], [[Oregon]]. On his way from [[Salisbury]] to [[Canterbury]] to meet his friend and fulfil a promise to his mother to see [[Canterbury Cathedral]], he gets off the train at Chillingbourne (filmed at [[Selling railway station]] between [[Faversham]] and [[Canterbury]]) by mistake and almost immediately gets caught up in the mystery of the "glue man". He has come to Britain as a part of the [[United States Army|American Army]] preparing for the [[D-Day|invasion of Europe]]. He becomes more and more willing to learn something about England during his visit. The original script mentioned that Johnson was on his way to Canterbury as his ancestors had come from there.<ref Name="Tritton" /> The producers had originally planned to use [[Burgess Meredith]] in the role but changed their mind in favour of an unknown. Meredith acted as a script editor for Johnson's character.<ref Name="Tritton" />
* [[Dennis Price]] as Sgt Peter Gibbs, a [[theatre organ|cinema organist]] from London. He has been conscripted into the [[British Army]] and has just been stationed at the military camp outside Chillingbourne, where his unit is engaged in training manoeuvres.
* [[Sheila Sim]] as Alison Smith, a shop assistant in a [[department store]] in London. She has joined the [[Women's Land Army]] to "do her bit" to help in the defence of her country. She has been assigned to the farm of Thomas Colpeper, the local [[Justice of the Peace#England and Wales|JP]] in Chillingbourne. Alison had previously spent a happy summer just outside Chillingbourne, living in a [[travel trailer|caravan]] with her fiancé, an archaeologist who has since joined the [[Royal Air Force|RAF]] and is missing in action at the outset of the film. (He is reported at the end as alive and in Gibraltar). Alison is determined to solve the mystery of the "glue man" and seeks the help of Bob Johnson to do so. Johnson replies "You need about as much help as a [[Flying Fortress]]".
* [[Charles Hawtrey (actor born 1914)|Charles Hawtrey]] as Thomas Duckett, the town's stationmaster.
* [[Esmond Knight]] as Narrator/Seven-Sisters Soldier/Village Idiot. The Narrator reads the modernised extract from [[Geoffrey Chaucer|Chaucer]]'s ''[[The Canterbury Tales|Canterbury Tales]]'', followed by a piece in Chaucerian style on the changes to Kent since Chaucer's time (both only in the original version).
* [[George Merritt (actor)|George Merritt]] as Ned Horton and [[Edward Rigby]] as Jim Horton, play the [[blacksmith]] and the [[wheelwright]]. The real Horton brothers, Ben and Neville, are seen acting as assistants to the actors.
* Hay Petrie as Woodcock.
* [[Freda Jackson]] as Mrs Prudence Honeywood, the farming woman who employs Alison.
* [[Eliot Makeham]] as the cathedral organist in Canterbury.
* [[Betty Jardine]] as Fee Baker.
* Harvey Golden as Sgt Roczinsky, Bob Johnson's friend in Canterbury.
* Leonard Smith (Leslie) James Tamsitt (Terry) and David Todd (David), play among the group of boys enjoying an adventure and river battle in a bucolic setting. All of them were local to the Canterbury area. Smith, Tamsitt and Todd were selected for speaking roles.
* Beresford Egan as PC Ovenden.
* [[Anthony Holles (actor)|Anthony Holles]] as Sergt. Bassett.
* Maude Lambert as Miss Grainger.
* Wally Bosco as ARP man.
* Charles Paton as Ernie Brooks.
* Jane Millican as Susanna Foster.
* [[John Slater (actor)|John Slater]] as Sergt. Len.
* [[Michael Golden (actor)|Michael Golden]] as Sergt. Smale.
* [[Graham Moffatt]] as Sergt. 'Stuffy'.
* Mary Line as Leslie's mother.
* Winifred Swaffer as Mrs Horton.
* [[Michael Howard (comedian)|Michael Howard]] as Archie.
* [[Judith Furse]] as Dorothy Bird.
* [[Barbara Waring]] as Polly Finn.
* Jean Shepeard as Gwladys Swinton.
* [[Margaret Scudamore]] as Mrs Colpeper.
* [[Joss Ambler]] as Police Inspector.
* Jessie James as Waitress.
* Kathleen Lucas as a passer- by.
* [[H. F. Maltby]] as Mr Portal.
* [[Eric Maturin]] as Geoffrey's father.
* Parry Jones jnr as Arthur.
* [[Kim Hunter]] as Johnson's Girl (American release).
* [[Raymond Massey]] as Narrator (American version) (voice).
* [[Esma Cannon]] as Agnes the maid.