A Dispatch from Reuters poster

A Dispatch from Reuters Cast & Characters

NR 1940 · 1h 30m 63 Audience

Starring Cast

Key crew

Director

William Dieterle

Screenplay

Milton Krims

Story

Valentine Williams , Wolfgang Wilhelm

Music

Max Steiner

Cinematography

James Wong Howe

Full cast

90 cast members

Edward G. Robinson

Paul Julius Reuter

Ida Magnus Reuter

Albert Bassermann

Sir Randolph Persham

James Stephenson

Walter Kingsford

Reuter as a Boy

Max Wagner as a Boy

Richard Nichols

Herbert - Age 5

Clerk (uncredited)

Cockney News Vendor (uncredited)

Girl with Max (uncredited)

Reporter (uncredited)

Sick Boy in Aachen (uncredited)

Translator (uncredited)

Cockney News Vendor (uncredited)

Woman (uncredited)

Companion (uncredited)

Von Konstat (uncredited)

Mother in 'Our American Cousin' (uncredited)

Delane's Secretary (uncredited)

Cockney News Vendor (uncredited)

Reporter (uncredited)

Constable (uncredited)

French Girl in Paris (uncredited)

Augusta in 'Our American Cousin' (uncredited)

Sailor on the Nova Scotian (uncredited)

Editor Grant of the Morning Advertiser (uncredited)

Man (uncredited)

Hans - Gauss' Assistant (uncredited)

Cyril Delevanti

Cockney News Vendor (uncredited)

Reporter (uncredited)

Florence Dudley

French Girl in Paris (uncredited)

Demetris Emanuel

Reporter (uncredited)

Lord Palmerston in Parliament (uncredited)

Cockney News Vendor (uncredited)

Member of Parliament (uncredited)

Cockney News Vendor (uncredited)

Cockney News Vendor (uncredited)

Board Member (uncredited)

Ernst Hauessermann

Heinrich (uncredited)

Member of Parliament (uncredited)

Herbert Heywood

News Vendor in Paris (uncredited)

Coach Attendant

Reporter (uncredited)

Member of Parliament (uncredited)

Parliament Speaker (uncredited)

J. Bender (uncredited)

Board Member (uncredited)

Telegrapher for Reuter (uncredited)

Mr. Stein (uncredited)

Reporter (uncredited)

Editor Wanting Contract Voided (uncredited)

Cockney News Vendor (uncredited)

Board Member (uncredited)

Alphonse Martell

Board Member (uncredited)

Chemist Who Poisoned Medicine (uncredited)

Frederic Mellinger

Man (uncredited)

Thomas R. Mills

Board Member (uncredited)

Member of Parliament (uncredited)

Fred Murray

Cockney News Vendor (uncredited)

French Girl in Paris (uncredited)

Reporter (uncredited)

Laborer (uncredited)

Postman Delivering Pigeons (uncredited)

Stock Exchange Chairman (uncredited)

Georges Renavent

French Official (uncredited)

Henry Roquemore

Otto - Directing Carew to Bank (uncredited)

Mr. O'Malley - Captain of the Nova Scotian (uncredited)

Reporter (uncredited)

American Ambassador (uncredited)

Woman Dancing with Geller (uncredited)

Walter O. Stahl

Von Darnstadt (uncredited)

Cockney News Vendor (uncredited)

Board Member (uncredited)

Hal Taylour

Cockney News Vendor (uncredited)

Clerk (uncredited)

Telegrapher at Reuters (uncredited)

Jacques Vanaire

French Telegrapher (uncredited)

Theodore von Eltz

Actor in 'Our American Cousin' (uncredited)

Opposition Parliament Speaker (uncredited)

Professor Gauss (uncredited)

Lottie Williams

Herbert's Nanny (uncredited)

Wolfgang Zilzer

Post Office Clerk (uncredited)

Crew by department

6 crew members

Directing

William Dieterle

James Wong Howe

Director of Photography

Writing

Valentine Williams

Wolfgang Wilhelm

Music

Original Music Composer

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