Directed by:
- Eric Idle
- Gary Weis
Written by:
- Eric Idle
Cast:
- Eric Idle ... Dirk McQuickly / Narrator
- John Halsey ... Barry Womble
- Ricky Fataar ... Stig O'Hara (as Rikki Fataar)
- Neil Innes ... Ron Nasty
- Michael Palin ... Eric Manchester, Rutle Corp. Press Agent / Lawyer
- Bianca Jagger ... Martini McQuickly
- John Belushi ... Ron Decline, The most feared promoter in the world
- Dan Aykroyd ... Brian Thigh, Ex-Record producer who turned down the Rutles
- Gilda Radner ... Mrs. Emily Pules
- Bill Murray ... Bill Murray the K.
- Gwen Taylor ... Mrs. Iris Mountbatten / Chastity
- Ron Wood ... Hells Angel
- Terence Bayler ... Leggy Mountbatten
- Henry Woolf ... Arthur Sultan, The Surrey Mystic
- Jeannette Charles ... Queen of England
- Carinthia West ... The Bigamy Sisters
- Al Franken ... Decline's Henchman
- Lorne Michaels ... Sleazy merchandiser
- Tom Davis ... Decline's henchman
- Frank Williams ... Archie Macaw, Record Producer
- Eunice
- Barry Cryer ... Dick Jaws, Music Publisher
- Penelope Tree ... Penelope, Stig's Wife
- Robert Putt ... Roadie
- Tania Kosevich ... German Streetwalker
- Jerome Greene ... Blind Lemon Pye (as Jerome Green)
- Vivienne Cohen
- Bob Gibson ... Ruttling Orange Peel
- Ollie Halsall ... Leppo, The 5th Rutle
- Pat Perkins ... Mrs. Peel
- Ray Tranter ... Sir Brain Morrison, Oxford Music Professor
- Bunny May ... Journalist / Bobby
- Debbie Waterson
- David Frost ... Himself (archive footage)
- Ron Gwynne ... Groupy #2
- George Harrison ... The Interviewer
- Mick Jagger ... Himself
- Roger McGough ... Himself - Liverpool Poet
- Paul Simon ... Interviewee
- Gary Weis ... Photographer getting off train
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