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title: "Boys Town: cast and crew"
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cast: 29
crew: 24
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# Boys Town (1938): cast and crew

29 cast and 24 crew, as credited (TMDB). Cast in billing order.

## Cast

- [Spencer Tracy](https://film.one/person/spencer-tracy.md) as Father Flanagan
- [Mickey Rooney](https://film.one/person/mickey-rooney.md) as Whitey Marsh
- [Henry Hull](https://film.one/person/henry-hull.md) as Dave Morris
- [Leslie Fenton](https://film.one/person/leslie-fenton.md) as Dan Farrow
- [Gene Reynolds](https://film.one/person/gene-reynolds.md) as Tony Ponessa
- [Edward Norris](https://film.one/person/edward-norris.md) as Joe Marsh
- [Addison Richards](https://film.one/person/addison-richards.md) as Judge
- [Minor Watson](https://film.one/person/minor-watson.md) as Bishop
- [Jonathan Hale](https://film.one/person/jonathan-hale.md) as John Hargraves
- [Bobs Watson](https://film.one/person/bobs-watson.md) as Pee Wee
- [Martin Spellman](https://film.one/person/martin-spellman.md) as Skinny
- [Mickey Rentschler](https://film.one/person/mickey-rentschler.md) as Tommy Anderson
- [Frankie Thomas](https://film.one/person/frankie-thomas.md) as Freddie Fuller
- Jimmy Butler as Paul Ferguson
- Sidney Miller as Mo Kahn
- Robert Emmett Keane as Burton
- Victor Kilian as The Sheriff
- Arthur Aylesworth as Tim (uncredited)
- King Baggot as Derelict in Mission (uncredited)
- Barbara Bedford as Nun (uncredited)
- George Cooper as Tramp (uncredited)
- Nell Craig as Nun (uncredited)
- John Hamilton as Prison Warden (uncredited)
- [Claire McDowell](https://film.one/person/claire-mcdowell.md) as Nun (uncredited)
- Jay Novello as Gangster (uncredited)
- [Phillip Terry](https://film.one/person/phillip-terry.md) as Newspaper Reporter (uncredited)
- William Worthington as Governor (uncredited)
- [John Wray](https://film.one/person/john-wray.md) as Weasel (uncredited)
- Everett Brown as Darky

## Directing

- [Norman Taurog](https://film.one/person/norman-taurog.md): Director
- Horace Hough: Assistant Director
- Carl Roup: Script Supervisor

## Writing

- [Dore Schary](https://film.one/person/dore-schary.md): Screenplay, Story
- [Eleanore Griffin](https://film.one/person/eleanore-griffin.md): Story
- [John Meehan](https://film.one/person/john-meehan-1999629.md): Screenplay

## Production

- [John W. Considine Jr.](https://film.one/person/john-w-considine-jr.md): Producer
- Joe Cooke: Unit Manager
- Jay Marchant: Unit Manager

## Camera

- [Sidney Wagner](https://film.one/person/sidney-wagner.md): Director of Photography

## Editing

- [Elmo Veron](https://film.one/person/elmo-veron.md): Editor

## Sound and music

- [Edward Ward](https://film.one/person/edward-ward.md): Original Music Composer
- Douglas Shearer: Recording Supervision
- Leo Arnaud: Music Arranger
- [Paul Marquardt](https://film.one/person/paul-marquardt.md): Orchestrator
- Leonid Raab: Orchestrator

## Art

- [Cedric Gibbons](https://film.one/person/cedric-gibbons.md): Art Direction
- Urie McCleary: Assistant Art Director
- Edwin B. Willis: Assistant Art Director
- Clarence J. Falk: Greensman

## Costume and make-up

- Jack Dawn: Makeup Artist
- Robert J. Schiffer: Makeup Artist

## Crew

- Jack Mintz: Additional Writing
- [Slavko Vorkapić](https://film.one/person/slavko-vorkapich.md): Special Effects

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