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cast: 20
crew: 46
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# Beat the Devil (1953): cast and crew

20 cast and 46 crew, as credited (TMDB). Cast in billing order.

## Cast

- [Humphrey Bogart](https://film.one/person/humphrey-bogart.md) as Billy Dannreuther
- [Jennifer Jones](https://film.one/person/jennifer-jones.md) as Gwendolen Chelm
- [Gina Lollobrigida](https://film.one/person/gina-lollobrigida.md) as Maria Dannreuther
- [Robert Morley](https://film.one/person/robert-morley.md) as Peterson
- [Peter Lorre](https://film.one/person/peter-lorre.md) as Julius O'Hara
- [Edward Underdown](https://film.one/person/edward-underdown.md) as Harry Chelm
- [Ivor Barnard](https://film.one/person/ivor-barnard.md) as Maj. Jack Ross
- [Marco Tulli](https://film.one/person/marco-tulli.md) as Ravello
- [Bernard Lee](https://film.one/person/bernard-lee.md) as Insp. Jack Clayton
- [Mario Perrone](https://film.one/person/mario-perrone.md) as Purser on SS Nyanga
- [Giulio Donnini](https://film.one/person/giulio-donnini.md) as Administrator
- [Saro Urzì](https://film.one/person/saro-urzi.md) as Captain of SS Nyanga
- [Juan de Landa](https://film.one/person/juan-de-landa.md) as Hispano-Suiza Driver
- [Aldo Silvani](https://film.one/person/aldo-silvani.md) as Charles
- Dave Crowley as (uncredited)
- Julie Gibson as (uncredited)
- Alex Pochet as Hotel Manager (uncredited)
- Mimmo Poli as Barman (uncredited)
- [Peter Sellers](https://film.one/person/peter-sellers.md) as Billy Dannreuther (voice) (uncredited)
- Manuel Serrano as Ahmed (uncredited)

## Directing

- [John Huston](https://film.one/person/john-huston.md): Director
- John Arnold: Assistant Director
- Angela Allen: Continuity
- Erica Masters: Third Assistant Director
- Robert Sterne: Second Assistant Director

## Writing

- [Truman Capote](https://film.one/person/truman-capote.md): Screenplay
- Claud Cockburn: Novel
- [John Huston](https://film.one/person/john-huston.md): Screenplay

## Production

- [John Huston](https://film.one/person/john-huston.md): Producer
- [Jack Clayton](https://film.one/person/jack-clayton.md): Associate Producer
- James H. Ware: Location Manager
- Bill Kirby: Production Manager
- [Angelo Rizzoli](https://film.one/person/angelo-rizzoli.md): Producer
- [John Woolf](https://film.one/person/john-woolf.md): Producer
- [Humphrey Bogart](https://film.one/person/humphrey-bogart.md): Executive Producer
- Beryl Booth: Production Secretary
- Fred Hymns: Production Accountant

## Camera

- [Oswald Morris](https://film.one/person/oswald-morris.md): Director of Photography
- [Freddie Francis](https://film.one/person/freddie-francis.md): Camera Operator
- Robert Capa: Still Photographer
- James Devis: Clapper Loader
- Eric Gray: Still Photographer
- Dennis C. Lewiston: Clapper Loader
- Gerry Turpin: First Assistant Camera

## Editing

- [Ralph Kemplen](https://film.one/person/ralph-kemplen.md): Editor
- Roy Hyde: First Assistant Editor
- Philip Auguste: Assistant Editor

## Sound and music

- [Kevin McClory](https://film.one/person/kevin-mcclory.md): Boom Operator
- Lambert Williamson: Music Director
- George Stephenson: Sound Recordist
- E. Law: Sound Recordist
- Barbara Hopkins: Sound
- [Franco Mannino](https://film.one/person/franco-mannino.md): Original Music Composer

## Art

- Wilfred Shingleton: Art Direction
- John Hoesli: Assistant Art Director
- Elso Valentini: Set Dresser
- Harry White: Draughtsman
- Alan Withy: Draughtsman

## Costume and make-up

- Betty Lee: Hairstylist
- Connie Reeve: Makeup Artist

## Visual effects

- Bryan Langley: Visual Effects

## Lighting

- Louis H. Lavelly: Chief Lighting Technician

## Crew

- Reg Johnson: Special Effects
- Harriet Medin: Dialect Coach
- [Anthony Veiller](https://film.one/person/anthony-veiller.md): Additional Writing
- [Peter Viertel](https://film.one/person/peter-viertel.md): Additional Writing

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