Nikolai Cherkasov

Czar Ivan IV

Serafima Birman

Boyarina Efrosinia Staritskaya

Pavel Kadochnikov

Vladimir Andreyevich Staritsky

Mikhail Zharov

Czar's Guard Malyuta Skuratov

Amvrosi Buchma

Czar's Guard Aleksei Basmanov

Vsevolod Pudovkin

Nikolay the Fanatic

Mikhail Kuznetsov

Fyodor Basmanov

Mikhail Nazvanov

Prince Andrei Kurbsky

Alexander Mgebrov

Novgorod's Archbishop Pimen

Pavel Massalsky

King Sigismund of Poland

Andrei Abrikosov

Archbishop Philip (formerly Fyodor Kolychev)

Vladimir Balashov

Pyotr Volynets

Ada Vojtsik

Elena Glinskaya, Ivan's Mother

Eric Pyryev

Ivan IV as a boy

Aleksandr Rumnyov

The Stranger (uncredited)

Sergei Stolyarov

(uncredited)

Semyon Timoshenko

Kaspar von Oldenbock, Livonian Ambassador (uncredited)