Robert Compton-Bennett, better known as Compton Bennett (born January 15, 1900 - died August 13, 1974) was an English film director, writer and producer. He is perhaps best known for directing the 1950 version of the film "King Solomon's Mines", an adaptation of an Allan Quatermain story. Bennett was born in Tunbridge Wells, England.

Alison Doody (born November 11, 1966 in Dublin, Ireland) is an Irish actress and model. She is a former pupil of Mount Anville Convent in South Dublin. She studied the fine arts in college before veering towards a modeling career. She was very popular as a model in Europe but was snubbed by American agencies, who thought she was too short. She also appeared in several commercials, before an agent noticed her work and suggested her to try acting instead.

Sir Cedric Webster Hardwicke (February 19, 1893 - August 6, 1964) was an English actor. He was born in the village of Lye, in Worcestershire. He trained at RADA, and, after service in World War I, he joined a repertory company in Birmingham, and played many classical roles on stage before beginning a film career which included both British and Hollywood films. He made his name on the stage performing works by George Bernard Shaw, …

American movie actor Richard Carlson (April 29, 1912- November 21, 1977) was born in Albert Lea, Minnesota. In the 1930s Carlson appeared on the Broadway stage after studying and teaching drama in Minnesota. His first film role was in 1938 (David O. Selznick's "The Young in Heart"). He worked as a freelance actor, appearing in many different film studio works, beginning in 1939 when he moved to California.

Roland Young (November 11, 1887 - June 5, 1953) was a British actor. Born in London, Young debuted in Hollywood in the 1922 silent film "Sherlock Holmes", in which he played Doctor Watson opposite John Barrymore. Between 1912 and 1941, Young appeared in twenty-one Broadway productions, including "The Seagull", "A Doll's House", "Hedda Gabler", "Beggar on Horseback", and "The Last of Mrs. Cheyney".

Robert Surtees (Aug 9, 1906 - Jan 5, 1985) was an American cinematographer who won Academy Awards three times, for the films "King Solomon's Mines", "The Bad and the Beautiful" and the 1959 version of "Ben Hur". His son Bruce is also a cinematographer.

Helen Deutsch (21 March 1906-15 March 1992) was an American screenwriter, journalist and songwriter. Deutsch was born in New York City and graduated from Barnard College. She began her career by managing the Provincetown Players. She then wrote theatre reviews for the "New York Herald-Tribune" and the "New York Times" as well as working in the press department of the Theatre Guild. Her first screenplay was for "The Seventh Cross" (1944).

Sam Zimbalist was an American film producer. He began his career at 16 as a film cutter at Metro Studios. He remained with Metro when the studio merged with the Goldwyn Company in 1924 and became MGM. He was promoted to assistant producer in 1929 and full producer in 1936. He produced the film "King Solomon's Mines" (1950) and "Quo Vadis" (1951), both of which received Academy Award nominations for Best Film.

Ralph E. Winters (June 17 1909 - February 26 2004), born in Canada, was one of the industry's leading film editors. After cutting his teeth on a series of B movies in the early 40s, including several in the Dr. Kildare series, his first "big" film was George Cukor's Victorian chiller "Gaslight" in 1944.

Bernard Archard (born 20 August 1916 in London) is an English actor. He is a tall, imposing actor with a distinctive face. He has appeared in over fifty films, including "Village of the Damned" (1960), "The List of Adrian Messenger" (1963), "Play Dirty" (1968), "The File of the Golden Goose" (1969), "Run a Crooked Mile" (1969), "The Horror of Frankenstein" (1970), Roman Polanski's "Macbeth" (1971), "Dad's Army" (1971), …

Nkhensani Mlondzo was born and lives in South Africa, where she graduated drama and has a National Diploma from Technikon Pretoria. During her studies, was involved in a number of local productions as well as "Macbeth" and "Beauty En Die Bees". In the summer of 2003 she was cast for the role of Foulata, a tribal witch in the TV feature, the remark of H. Rider Hagyard's novel "King Solomon's Mines" with co star Patrick Swayze.