Cast
- Rex Harrison - Doctor John Dolittle
- Samantha Eggar - Emma Fairfax. Emma is a character manufactured for the film, presumably to add romance.
- Anthony Newley - Matthew Mugg
- Richard Attenborough - Albert Blossom
- Peter Bull - General Bellowes
- Muriel Landers - Mrs. Blossom
- William Dix - Tommy Stubbins
- Geoffrey Holder - William Shakespeare X, leader of the island
- Portia Nelson - Sarah Dolittle
- Norma Varden - Lady Petherington, an elderly hypocondriac who was one of the Doctor's main patients when he was an MD
- Ginny Tyler (uncredited) - voice of Polynesia
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