Paul Newman

Rocky Graziano

Pier Angeli

Norma Graziano

Everett Sloane

Irving Cohen

Eileen Heckart

Ma Barbella

Sal Mineo

Romolo

Harold J. Stone

Nick Barbella

Joseph Buloff

Benny

Arch Johnson

Heldon

Sammy White

Whitey Bimstein

Robert P. Lieb

D. A. Hogan

Theodore Newton

Edward Eagan

Steve McQueen

Fidel (uncredited)

Stanley Adams

Romolo's Attorney (uncredited)

Fred Aldrich

Ringside Photographer (uncredited)

Leon Alton

Fight Spectator (uncredited)