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The Great Dictator Cast & Crew

"Once again - the whole world laughs!"

NR 1940 · 2h 5m

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Starring Cast

Key crew

Director

Charlie Chaplin

Screenplay

Charlie Chaplin

Producers

Charlie Chaplin

Music

Meredith Willson , Charlie Chaplin

Cinematography

Karl Struss , Roland Totheroh

Editor

Willard Nico

Full cast

65 cast members

Charlie Chaplin

Adenoid Hynkel, Dictator of Tomania / A Jewish Barber

Paulette Goddard

Benzino Napaloni, Dictator of Bacteria

Reginald Gardiner

Commander Schultz

Field Marshal Herring

Madame Napaloni

Maurice Moscovitch

Chester Conklin

Barber's Customer

Esther Michelson

Storm Trooper Stealing Fruit

Florence Wright

Blonde Secretary

Tomanian Storm Trooper

Tomanian Commandant at Osterlich / Robert O. Davis

Whitewashed Storm Trooper

Commander of Storm Troopers

Heinrich Schtick / Translator (voice)

Soldier (uncredited)

Richard Alexander

Tomainian Prison Guard in 1918 (uncredited)

Compact Parachute Inventor (uncredited)

Tomanian Officer (uncredited)

Ghetto Extra (uncredited)

Reporter from International Press (uncredited)

Sculptor (uncredited)

Hospital Superintendent (uncredited)

Jewish Man (uncredited)

Hospital Orderly (uncredited)

Friendly Storm Trooper (uncredited)

Storm Trooper (uncredited)

Officer (uncredited)

Policeman (uncredited)

Leyland Hodgson

Big Bertha Gunnery Officer (uncredited)

Man Seated on Bed (uncredited)

Banquet Butler (uncredited)

Ethelreda Leopold

Blonde Secretary (uncredited)

Bald Barbershop Customer (uncredited)

Hynkel's Staff Officer (uncredited)

Nellie V. Nichols

Jewish Woman (uncredited)

Dance Extra at Ball (uncredited)

Jewish Man (uncredited)

Storm Trooper Officer (uncredited)

Officer Extra (uncredited)

Henry Roquemore

Soldier (uncredited)

Soldier in 1918 Tomainia (uncredited)

Soldier (uncredited)

Jewish Fruit Stand Proprietor (uncredited)

Charles Sullivan

Prison Guard (uncredited)

Officer (uncredited)

Hynkel's Barber (uncredited)

Soldier in Field (uncredited)

Undetermined Role (uncredited)

Francis Ernest Drake

Storm Trooper (uncredited)

Francesca Santoro

Aggie (uncredited)

Conductor (uncredited)

Soldier (uncredited)

Wyn Ritchie Evans

Woman in Crowd (uncredited)

Ball Guest (uncredited)

Ball Guest (uncredited)

Herschel Graham

Soldier (uncredited)

Professor Herr Kibitzen (uncredited)

Crew by department

26 crew members

Directing

Charlie Chaplin

Assistant Director

Director of Photography

Roland Totheroh

Director of Photography

Writing

Charlie Chaplin

Production

Charlie Chaplin

Production Manager

Associate Producer

Editing

Sound

Glenn Rominger

Sound Designer

Music

Charlie Chaplin

Original Music Composer

Meredith Willson

Original Music Composer

Art

J. Russell Spencer

Edward G. Boyle

Set Decoration

William Bogdanoff

Construction Foreman

Visual Effects

Special Effects

Costume & Makeup

Costume Supervisor

Other

Kathleen Pryor

Production Secretary

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