Ivan Vasilevich menyaet professiyu

Yuriy Yakovlev

as Ivan the Terrible / Ivan Vasilievich Bunsha

Leonid Kuravlyov

as Zhorzh Miloslavsky / knyaz Miloslavsky

Aleksandr Demyanenko

as Aleksandr 'Shurik' Timofeyev, inventor

Mikhail Pugovkin

as film director Yakin

Natalya Seleznyova

as Zinaida, Shurik's wife

Savely Kramarov

as Feofan the diak

Sergei Filippov

as swedish ambassador

Natalya Krachkovskaya

as Uliana Andreevna Bunsha, superintendent's wife

Vladimir Etush

as Anton Semyonovich Shpak, dentist

Natalya Kustinskaya

as Yakin's mistress