Below is the full list of actors who played a role of Javert, both in musical and movie adaptation.
List of Portrayers[]
Musical[]
- Jacques Mercier – Original French Concept Album
- Jean Vallée – Original Paris Stage Cast
- Roger Allam – Original London Cast
- Terrance Mann – Original Broadway Cast
- Thomas Goerz – Original Canadian Cast
- Takeshi Kaga and Sakae Takita - Original Japanese Cast and 1987-1988 Japanese Tour
- Haruki Sayama - Original Japanese Cast and 1987-1990 Japanese Tour
- Philip Quast – 1987-1991 Original Australian Cast, 1989-1990 West End Cast, 1989: Complete Symphonic Recording, 1992 UK Tour, 1995: 10th Anniversary concert
- Jack Dorland – 1987 Glasgow Cast
- Anthony Crivello - 1988 Broadway
- Jeff McCarthy - 1988-1991 US Tour and 2007 The Muny Production, St. Louis Cast
- Andrzej Słabiak, Andrzej Śledź - 1989-2000, Musical Theatre in Gdynia
- Michael McCarthy – 1990-1992 West End Cast (understudy), 1992-1993 UK and Ireland Tour, 1994-1997 West End Cast, 2001-2005 West End Cast, 2002-2003 Final Broadway Cast, 1997: The Chelmsford Concert, 2004 Windsor Castle Concert, 2008 Guernsey Concert and 2008 Dublin Concert
- James Mikelberg – 1990 Frederciton Cast
- Jan Åström – 1990 Stockholm Cast
- David Burt - 1990-1991 West End Cast
- Patrick Rocca – 1991 Paris revival
- Ernst Daniël Smid - 1991-1992 Dutch Cast
- Miguel del Arco - 1992 Original Spanish Cast
- Kunio Murai - 1994 Japanese Red Cast and 1989-2001 Japanese Tour
- Kiyotaka Imai 1994 Japanese Blue Cast and 1991-1994 Japanese Tour
- Rob Gallagher 1995 Broadway
- George Karaiskos – 1997 Florida cast
- Mayo Kawasaki - 1997-2001 Japanese Tour
- Ryu Kano – 1997 Japanese Tour
- Côme Villneuve – 1998 Québec cast
- Roger Tirazona – 1998 Malta cast
- Phillip Escosora – 1998 Dover tour
- Jan F. Danckaert - 1998-1999 Flemish (Belgian) cast
- Stephen Bishop – 2000 US tour
- Soma Suzuki – 2000-2001, 2005-2006 Japanese Tours
- Juan Rodó - 2000, Argentina, Buenos Aires Spanish Tour
- Saulo Vasconcelos - 2001 Brazil Cast
- Shuler Hensley – 2001 Broadway
- Jérôme Pradon – 2001-2003 West End Cast
- Luis René Aguirre – 2002 Commissioning Mexican scene
- David Masenheimer – 2002 Broadway production
- Masaaki Uchino – 2003 Japanese Violet Cast and 2003-2004 Japanese Tour
- Masahiro Takashima – 2003 Japanese Light Blue Cast and 2003-2004 Japanese Tour
- Kojiro Oka – 2003 Japanese Green Cast and 2003-2011 Japanese Tour
- Takuya Kon – 2003 Japanese Orange Cast and 2003-2011 Japanese Tour
- Nic Greenshields - 2003-2004 West End Cast (understudy), 2018-2023 UK and Ireland Tour
- Uwe Kröger - 2003-2004 Berlin Cast
- Norm Lewis – 2006 Broadway revival, 2010-2011 West End Cast, 2010: 25th Anniversary Concert at the O2, 2013 The Muny Production, St. Louis Cast
- Hans Peter Janssens – 2006-2010 West End Cast
- Chris O'Brien - 2006 Music Showcase Cast, Tampa, Florida
- Erik André Hvidsten – 2007 Norwegian Revival Production
- Zen Ishikawa - 2007-2011 Japanese tour
- Yutaka Abe - 2007-2009 Japanese tour
- Justin Andrus, Jack Wood – 2008 Vancouver youth production
- Wim van den Driessche - 2008-2009 Dutch Cast
- Steven Evdox – 2009 St. John's cast
- Łukasz Dziedzic - 2010-2012 Roma Theater in Warsaw
- Ignasi Vidal – 2010-2011 (Madrid), 2011-2012 (Barcelona), 2013-2014 Spain tour
- KENTARO – 2011 Japanese Tour
- Hadley Fraser – 2011-2012 West End Cast
- Shoichi Fukui - 2013 Japanese 25th Anniversary tour
- Tatsuya Kawaguchi - 2013: 25th Anniversary Japanese tour, 2013-2021 Japanese Tour and 2017 Japanese 30th Anniversary Tour
- Mitsuo Yoshihara - 2013: 25th Anniversary Japanese tour, 2013-2017 Japanese Tour and 2017 Japanese 30th Anniversary Tour
- Masaaki Kamada - 2013: 25th Anniversary Japanese tour and 2013-2015 Japanese Tour
- Tam Mutu – 2012-2014 West End Cast
- Moon Jong-Won - 2013 25th Anniversary South Korean tour
- Earl Carpenter – 2008-2010 London cast, 2010: Les Misérables Live! cast album, 2010 25th Anniversary UK Tour, 2013 Toronto tour, 2016 Asia Cast and 2015-2016 Broadway Cast
- David Thaxton - 2014-2015, 2018 and 2022-2023 West End Casts
- Yūji Kishi - 2015-2017 Japanese Tour and 2017 Japanese 30th Anniversary Tour
- John Rapson - Les Miserables Broadway 2014 (understudy) and Les Miserables US Tour (understudy)
- Will Swenson -2014-2015 Broadway Cast
- Kevin Aichele - Rainbow Stage, 2015
- Hayden Tee — 2015 Australian cast, 2016 Broadway Cast, 2016 Dubai Cast, 2016-18 West End Cast, 2019 Auckland Music Theatre & Amici Trust and 2022-2023 USA Tour
- Jeremy Secomb - 2015-2017 West End Cast and 2018 Guernsey Concert
- Kim Hyun-Joon (a.k.a. Toshihide Kaneda) - 2015-2016 South Korean revival
- Kim Woo-Hyung - 2015-2016 and 2023-2024 South Korean revivals
- Josh Davis - 2017 US National Tour
- Preston Truman Boyd - 2017-2024 US Tour
- Nando Pradho - 2017 Brazil Cast and 2018 México City Cast
- Bradley Jaden - 2018-2022 and 2024 West End Casts, 2021 Sondheim Theatre All Star Concert and 2024-2025 All Star Concert Arena Spectacular World Tour in Belfast in Ireland, Glasgow and Aberdeen in Scotland, Sheffield, Manchester and Newcastle in England, Luxembourg, Geneva and Zurich in Switzerland, Trieste and Milan in Italy, Copenhagen in Denmark, Oslo in Norway, Gothenburg, Stockholm and Malmö in Sweden, Amsterdam in The Netherlands
- Rio Uehara - 2019-2021 Japanese Tour
- Kanata Irei - 2019-2025 Japanese Tour
- Michael Ball - 2019 Gielgud Theatre All Star Concert, 2019: Les Misérables: The Staged Concert, 2020-2021 Sondheim Theatre All Star Concert and 2024-2025 All Star Concert Arena Spectacular World Tour in Belfast in Ireland, Glasgow and Aberdeen in Scotland and Sheffield, Manchester and Newcastle in England
- Patrick Scott McDermott - 2020 USA Tour
- Elwyn Williams and Dan Gill - 2021 Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts Production
- Nico Wagner - 2022 Boston cast
- Freek Bartels - 2023 Dutch Revival Cast
- Nordin De Moor - 2023-2024 Dutch and Flemish (Belgian) Revival Casts
- Stewart Clarke - 2023-2025 West End Cast
- Kai - 2023-2024 South Korean Revival
- Jordan Donica - 2024 The Muny Production, St. Louis Cast
- Sébastien Duchange - 2024 Paris Revival
- Nick Rehberger - 2024-2025 US Tour
- Ryunosuke Onoda and Kazuaki Ishii - 2024-2025 Japanese Tour
Movies[]
- William V. Ranous – 1909 film
- Henri Étiévant – 1913 films
- Hardee Kirkland – 1917 film
- Jean Toulout – 1925 film
- Charles Vanel – 1934 films
- Charles Laughton – 1935 film
- Hans Hinrich – 1948 film (credited as Giovanni Hinrich)
- Robert Newton – 1952 film
- Bernard Blier – 1958 film
- Tino Carraro – 1964 mini-series
- Anthony Bate – 1967 mini-series
- Bernard Fresson – 1972 mini-series
- Antonio Passy – 1973 series
- Anthony Perkins – 1978 film
- Michel Bouquet – 1982 film/1985 mini-series
- Geoffrey Rush – 1998 film
- John Malkovich – 2000 mini-series
- Takashi Matsuyama - Shōjo Cosette 2007 anime
- Russell Crowe – 2012 film
- David Oyelowo - 2018 mini-series