EnglishAndy Griffith as Pvt Will Stockdale
Myron McCormick as Sgt Orville C King
Nick Adams as Pvt Benjamin B Whitledge
Murray Hamilton as Irving S Blanchard
Howard Smith as Maj Gen Eugene Bush
Will Hutchins as Lt George Bridges (pilot)
Sydney Smith as Maj Gen Vernon Pollard
James Millhollin as Maj Royal B Demming (psychiatrist)
Don Knotts as Cpl John C Brown (Dexterity)
Jean Willes as WAF captain
Bartlett Robinson as Captain
Henry McCann as Lt Cover
Dub Taylor as McKinney (draft board man)
William Fawcett as Pa Stockdale
Raymond Bailey as Colonel
Thomas Browne Henry as Senator (unconfirmed)
Jack Mower as Sheriff (unconfirmed)
Robert Sherman as Lt James Miller (oculist) (unconfirmed)
Malcolm Atterbury as Bus driver carrying applicants
Benny Baker as Capt Jim Able (Gen Bush's aide)
Dan Barton as Tiger
Donald R Clark as Guitar-playing inductee
John Close as MP
Fred Coby as Sentry
Francis De Sales as Sgt TC Payne (test supervisor)
Jamie Farr as Lt Gardella (co-pilot)
Rad Fulton as Inductee
Peggy Hallack as Rosabelle McKinney
Edward Everett Horton as Air Force officer or officer's aide
Sammy Jackson as Inductee
Charles Lane as Dave (draft board driver)
Tom McKee as Charles (aide)
George N Neise as Baker (Gen Bush's aide)
Mary Scott as Purple Grotto cigarette girl
Verne Smith as Voice of announcer
Bob Stratton as Lt Kendall
Dick Wessel as Drunk infantryman at Purple Grotto