| Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Franz "Fox" Biberkopf [HR] | |
| Peter Chatel | Eugen Thiess [HR] | |
| Karlheinz Böhm | Max [HR] | |
| Rudolf Lenz | Rechtsanwalt [NR] | |
| Harry Baer | Philip [NR] | |
| Adrian Hoven | Herr Thiess [NR] | |
| Ulla Jacobsson | Frau Thiess [NR] | |
| Christiane Maybach | Hedwig Biberkopf [NR] | |
| Kurt Raab | Wodka-Peter [NR] | |
| Peter Kern | Blumenverkäufer Schmidt [NR] | |
| Karl Scheydt | Manager Klaus [NR] | |
| Karl-Heinz Staudenmeyer | Krapp [NR] | |
| Irm Hermann | Mlle Cherie de Paris [NR] | |
| Ingrid Caven | Sängerin Ingrid [NR] | |
| Hark Bohm | Polizeiinspektor [NR] | |
| Barbara Valentin | Albine, Frau von Max [NR] | |
| Walter Sedlmayr | Autohändler [NR] | |
| Brigitte Mira | Frau an der Lottostelle [NR] | |
| El Hedi ben Salem | Marokkaner Salem [NR] | |
