Top Billed Cast

Elizabeth Taylor
Cleopatra
Richard Burton
Marcus Antonius
Rex Harrison
Julius Caesar
Pamela Brown
High Priestess
George Cole
Flavius
Hume Cronyn
Sosigenes
Cesare Danova
Apollodorus
Kenneth Haigh
Brutus
Andrew Keir
Agrippa
Martin Landau
Rufio
Roddy McDowall
Octavian - Caesar Augustus
Robert Stephens
Germanicus
Francesca Annis
Eiras
Grégoire Aslan
Pothinus
Martin Benson
Ramos
John Doucette
Achillas
Michael Hordern
Cicero
John Hoyt
Cassius
Carroll O'Connor
Casca
Andrew Faulds
Canidius
Michael Gwynn
Cimber
Peter Grant
Palace Guard (uncredited)
Marne Maitland
Euphranor
Richard O'Sullivan
Pharaoh Ptolemy XIII
Gwen Watford
Calpurnia
Douglas Wilmer
Decimus
Marie Devereux
Bacchanal Reveler
Herbert Berghof
Theodotos
Jacqueline Chan
Lotos
Isabel Cooley
Charmian
Mike Steen
Minor Role
Finlay Currie
Titus
Jean Marsh
Octavia
Meri Welles
Cleopatra's Handmaiden
Peter Forster
Officer
John Alderson
Roman Officer (uncredited)
John Alderton
1st Officer (uncredited)
Jeremy Kemp
Agitator (uncredited)
Desmond Llewelyn
Senator (uncredited)
Jean Marsh
Octavia (uncredited)
Laurence Naismith
Arachesilaus (uncredited)
Larry Taylor
Roman Officer (uncredited)

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A review by John Chard

Written by John Chard on Fri Sep 26 2014

On Your Knees! On your knees! It's something that Cleopatra her self shouts at a stunned Mark Antony, but it could quite literally have been shouted by many in Hollywood at 20th Century Fox as their gargantuan epic threatened to sink them. The trials and tribulations surrounding the film are stuff of legend, all of which makes for a film itself, but I will not go over old ground, there's a couple of great documentaries available out there and they are required viewing. They also help to explain somewhat why Cleopatra is not the genre defining classic many hoped it would be. Truth is is that ...