The Great Dictator (1940)

Synopsis

Cast & Credits

• Cast

  • • Adenoid Hynkel, Dictator of Tomania

      Charles Chaplin

    • Benzini Napaloni, Dictator of Bacteria

      Jack Oakie

    • Schultz

      Reginald Gardiner

    • Garbitsch

      Henry Daniell

    • Herring

      Billy Gilbert

    • Madame Napaloni

      Grace Hayle

    • Bacterian ambassador

      Carter De Haven

    • a Jewish barber

      Charles Chaplin

    • Hannah

      Paulette Goddard

    • Mr Jaeckel

      Maurice Moscovich

    • Mrs Jaeckel

      Emma Dunn

    • Mr Mann

      Bernard Gorcey

    • Mr Agar

      Paul Weigel

    • client at the barber's

      Chester Conklin

    • woman in the ghetto

      Esther Michelson

    • SS man's assistant

      Hank Mann

    • woman in the ghetto

      Florence Wright

    • SS man

      Eddie Gribbon

    • man in the ghetto

      Davis, Robert O.

    • SS man

      Eddie Dunn

    • woman in the ghetto

      Nita Pike

    • man in the ghetto

      Lynn, Peter

    • [sculptor]

      Gino Corrado

    • [inventor who jumps out of window]

      Sig Arno

    • [official]

      Lucien Prival

    • [barber]

      Leo White

• Credits

  • Unknown:

    • Directed by

      Charles Chaplin

    • Production Company/©

      Charles Chaplin Corporation

    • [Producer]

      Charles Chaplin

    • Assistant Director

      Dan James

    • Assistant Director

      Wheeler Dryden

    • Assistant Director

      Bob Meltzer

    • [Script Clerk]

      Evelyn Earle

    • Written by

      Charles Chaplin

    • Director of Photography

      Karl Struss

    • Director of Photography

      Roland Totheroh

    • [Stills]

      William Wallace

    • [Special Effects]

      Ralph Hammeras

    • [Special Effects]

      Jack Cosgrove

    • Film Editor

      Willard Nico

    • [Film Editor]

      Harold Rice

    • Art Director

      J. Russell Spencer

    • [Assistant Art Director]

      Dick Fritsch

    • [Music]

      Charles Chaplin

    • [Music Assistant]

      Max Terr

    • Musical Direction

      Meredith Willson

    • Sound

      Townsend, Percy

    • Sound

      Rominger, Glenn

    • [General Press Representative]

      Monroe Greenthal