Orson Welles	...	(Director)
William Shakespeare, Raphael Holinshed	...	(Writer)
Orson Welles	...	Falstaff
Jeanne Moreau	...	Doll Tearsheet
Margaret Rutherford	...	Mistress Quickly
John Gielgud	...	Henry IV
Marina Vlady	...	Kate Percy
Walter Chiari	...	Mr. Silence
Michael Aldridge	...	Pistol
Julio Peña	...
Tony Beckley	...	Ned Poins
Andrés Mejuto	...
Keith Pyott	...
Jeremy Rowe	...	Prince John
Alan Webb	...	Shallow
Fernando Rey	...	Worcester
Keith Baxter	...	Prince Hal
Norman Rodway	...	Henry 'Hotspur' Percy
José Nieto	...	Northumberland
Andrew Faulds	...	Westmoreland
Che Tejada	...
Angelo Francesco Lavagnino	...	Composer
Alessandro Tasca	...	Executive Producer
Edmond Richard	...	Cinematographer
Charles Farrell	...
Elena Jaumandreu	...	Editor
Fernando Hilbeck	...
José Antonio de la Guerra	...	Set Decoration
Patrick Bedford	...	Bardolph (as Paddy Bedford)
Francisco Puyol	...	Makeup Artist
Beatrice Welles	...	Falstaff's Page
Jesus Franco	...	second unit
Ralph Richardson	...	Narrator (voice)
Mariano Erdoiza	...	Production Designer

Summary: Sir John Falstaff is the hero in this compilation of extracts from Shakespeare's "Henry IV" and other plays, made into a connected story of Falstaff's career as young Prince Hal's drinking companion. The massive Knight roisters with and without the Prince, philosophizes comically, goes to war (in his own fashion), and meets his final disappointment, set in a real-looking late medieval England.