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The Great Dictator (1940)

The Great Dictator (1940)

NR 125 minutes EN Comedy , War
Once again - the whole world laughs!
Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime.
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Cast

Charlie Chaplin
Adenoid Hynkel, Dictator of Tomania / A Jewish Bar
Jack Oakie
Benzino Napaloni, Dictator of Bacteria
Reginald Gardiner
Commander Schultz
Henry Daniell
Garbitsch
Billy Gilbert
Field Marshal Herring
Grace Hayle
Madame Napaloni
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)

Crew

Glenn Rominger
Sound Designer
Percy Townsend
Sound Designer
Ed Voight
Makeup Artist
Karl Struss
Director of Photography
Roland Totheroh
Director of Photography
Meredith Willson
Original Music Composer
Charlie Chaplin
Original Music Composer
J. Russell Spencer
Art Direction
Edward G. Boyle
Set Decoration
Wheeler Dryden
Second Unit
Ralph Hammeras
Special Effects
Jack Cosgrove
Visual Effects