Jean Cocteau (le poète), Françoise Arnoul (Elle-même (uncredited)), Jean Marais (Oedipe), Maria Casarès (la princesse), François Périer (Heurtebise), Edouard Dermithe (Cégeste), Claudine Auger (Minerve (uncredited)), Charles Aznavour (le Curieux), Lucia Bosé (une amie d'Orphée), Françoise Christophe (l'infirmière), Yul Brynner (l'huissier), Jean-Pierre Léaud (Dargelos), Brigitte Bardot (Elle-même (uncredited)), Michèle Comte (La petite fille), Nicole Courcel (La mère maladroite / The Young Mother (uncredited)), Henri Crémieux (Le professeur / The Professor (uncredited)), Daniel Moosmann (2nd Man-Horse (uncredited)), Luis Miguel Dominguin (Un ami d'Orphée), Guy Dute (Le premier homme chien), Michael Goodliffe (English Narrator (voice) (uncredited)), Pablo Picasso (Un ami d'Orphée (uncredited)), Daniel Gélin (L'interne / The intern (uncredited)), Alice Heyliger (Eurydice), Alice Sapritch (Une Gitane / Gipsy (uncredited)), Philippe Juzan (1st Man-Horse), Roger Vadim (Lui-même (uncredited)), Françoise Sagan (Une amie d'Orphée (uncredited)), Annette Stroyberg (Une amie d'Orphée (uncredited)), Marie-Josèphe Yoyotte (Une gitane / Gipsy (uncredited))