
The Great Dictator
1940
Release Date
October 15th, 1940
Runtime
- 125 minutes
Synopsis
- Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime.
CAST
- Charlie Chaplin - Adenoid Hynkel, Dictator of Tomania / A Jewish Barber, Paulette Goddard - Hannah, Jack Oakie - Benzino Napaloni, Dictator of Bacteria, Reginald Gardiner - Commander Schultz, Henry Daniell - Garbitsch, Billy Gilbert - Field Marshal Herring, Grace Hayle - Madame Napaloni, Carter DeHaven - Spook, Maurice Moscovitch - Mr. Jaeckel, Emma Dunn - Mrs. Jaeckel, Bernard Gorcey - Mr. Mann, Paul Weigel - Mr. Agar, Chester Conklin - Barber's Customer, Esther Michelson - Jewish Woman, Hank Mann - Storm Trooper Stealing Fruit, Florence Wright - Blonde Secretary, Eddie Gribbon - Tomanian Storm Trooper, Rudolph Anders - Tomanian Commandant at Osterlich / Robert O. Davis, Eddie Dunn - Whitewashed Storm Trooper, Nita Pike - Secretary, George Lynn - Commander of Storm Troopers, Wheeler Dryden - Heinrich Schtick / Translator (voice), Fred Aldrich - Soldier (uncredited), Richard Alexander - Tomainian Prison Guard in 1918 (uncredited), Sig Arno - Compact Parachute Inventor (uncredited), William Arnold - Tomanian Officer (uncredited), Joe Bordeaux - Ghetto Extra (uncredited), Don Brodie - Reporter from International Press (uncredited), Gino Corrado - Sculptor (uncredited), John Davidson - Hospital Superintendent (uncredited), Max Davidson - Jewish Man (uncredited), Lew Davis - Hospital Orderly (uncredited), Pat Flaherty - Friendly Storm Trooper (uncredited), Bud Geary - Storm Trooper (uncredited), Sam Harris - Officer (uncredited), Eddie Hart - Policeman (uncredited), Leyland Hodgson - Big Bertha Gunnery Officer (uncredited), William Irving - Man Seated on Bed (uncredited), Charles Irwin - Banquet Butler (uncredited), Ethelreda Leopold - Blonde Secretary (uncredited), Torben Meyer - Bald Barbershop Customer (uncredited), Bert Moorhouse - Hynkel's Staff Officer (uncredited), Nellie V. Nichols - Jewish Woman (uncredited), Manuel París - Dance Extra at Ball (uncredited), Jack Perrin - Jewish Man (uncredited), Lucien Prival - Storm Trooper Officer (uncredited), Cyril Ring - Officer Extra (uncredited), Henry Roquemore - Soldier (uncredited), Tiny Sandford - Soldier in 1918 Tomainia (uncredited), Hans Schumm - Soldier (uncredited), Harry Semels - Jewish Fruit Stand Proprietor (uncredited), Charles Sullivan - Prison Guard (uncredited), Carl Voss - Officer (uncredited), Leo White - Hynkel's Barber (uncredited), Harry Wilson - Soldier in Field (uncredited), Hans Conried - Undetermined Role (uncredited), Francis Ernest Drake - Storm Trooper (uncredited), Francesca Santoro - Aggie (uncredited), Leonard Walker - Conductor (uncredited), Finn Zirzow - Soldier (uncredited), Wyn Ritchie Evans - Woman in Crowd (uncredited), James Carlisle - Ball Guest (uncredited), Oliver Cross - Ball Guest (uncredited), Herschel Graham - Soldier (uncredited)

