Cast
- Gibson Gowland as Dr. John McTeague, a dentist
- ZaSu Pitts as Trina Sieppe, McTeague's wife
- Jean Hersholt as Marcus Schouler, McTeague's friend
- Prologue
- Jack Curtis as McTeague's father
- Tempe Pigott as McTeague's mother
- Florence Gibson as a hag
- Erich von Ritzau as Dr. 'Painless' Potter, a travelling dentist
- Sieppe Family
- Chester Conklin as Hans 'Popper' Sieppe, Trina's father
- Silvia Ashton as 'Mommer' Sieppe, Trina's mother
- Austen Jewell as August Sieppe, Trina's younger brother
- Oscar Gottell as Max Sieppe
- Otto Gottell as Moritz Sieppe
- Joan Standing as Selina, Trina's cousin
- Max Tyron as Uncle Rudolph Oelbermann
- Subplots
- Dale Fuller as Maria Miranda Macapa
- Cesare Gravina as Zerkow, a junkman
- Frank Hayes as Charles W. Grannis, proprietor of the Modern Dog Hospital
- Fanny Midgley as Miss Anastasia Baker
- Friends and Neighbors at Polk Street
- Hughie Mack as Mr. Heise, the harness maker
- E. 'Tiny' Jones as Mrs. Heise
- J. Aldrich Libbey as Mr. Ryer
- Reta Revela as Mrs. Ryer
- S.S. Simon as Joe Frenna
- Hugh J. McCauley as the photographer
- William Mollenhauer as the palmist
- Others
- William Barlow as the Minister
- Lon Poff as the man from the lottery company
- James F. Fulton as Cribbens, a prospector
- James Gibson as a Deputy
- Jack McDonald as the Sheriff of Placer County
- Erich von Stroheim as the balloon vendor
- James Wang as a Chinese cook
- Bee Ho Gray as an extra and the knife thrower used in saloon scene
- Harold Henderson as an extra
- Lita Chevrier as an extra
- Edward Gaffney as an extra
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