Jean Marais

Orphée

François Périer

Heurtebise

María Casares

Death

Marie Déa

Eurydice

Henri Crémieux

Editor

Juliette Gréco

Aglaonice

Roger Blin

The Poet

Edouard Dermithe

Jacques Cégeste

André Carnège

Judge

René Worms

Judge

Raymond Faure

Journalist

Pierre Bertin

Commissioner

Jacques Varennes

Judge

Paul Amiot

Judge (uncredited)

Philippe Bordier

Young Man at Café des Poètes (uncredited)

Claude Borelli

Une bacchante (uncredited)

Jean-Louis Brau

Young Man on the Terrace of the Flora (uncredited)

Jean Cocteau

Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

Renée Cosima

Une bacchante (uncredited)

Jacques Doniol-Valcroze

Young Man at Café des Poètes (uncredited)

René Lacourt

Postman (uncredited)

Julien Maffre

Police Officer (uncredited)

Claude Mauriac

(uncredited)

Jean-Pierre Melville

Hotel Manager (uncredited)

Jean-Pierre Mocky

Band Leader (uncredited)

Henri San Juan

Young Man at Café des Poètes (uncredited)

Victor Tabournot

Young Man at Café des Poètes (uncredited)