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title: "Dark Star: cast and crew"
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cast: 11
crew: 28
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# Dark Star (1974): cast and crew

11 cast and 28 crew, as credited (TMDB). Cast in billing order.

## Cast

- [Brian Narelle](https://film.one/person/brian-narelle.md) as Lt. Doolittle
- [Cal Kuniholm](https://film.one/person/cal-kuniholm.md) as Boiler
- [Dan O'Bannon](https://film.one/person/dan-obannon.md) as Sgt. Pinback alias Bill Fruge
- [Dre Pahich](https://film.one/person/dre-pahich.md) as Talby
- [Adam Beckenbaugh](https://film.one/person/adam-beckenbaugh.md) as Bomb #20 (voice)
- [Nick Castle](https://film.one/person/nick-castle.md) as Alien
- [Joe Saunders](https://film.one/person/joe-saunders.md) as Commander Powell (voice)
- [Cookie Knapp](https://film.one/person/cookie-knapp.md) as Muttercomputer (voice)
- [Alan Sheretz](https://film.one/person/alan-sheretz.md) as Bomb #19 (voice)
- [John Carpenter](https://film.one/person/john-carpenter.md) as Talby Voice
- [Miles Watkins](https://film.one/person/miles-watkins.md) as Watkins - Mission Control

## Directing

- [John Carpenter](https://film.one/person/john-carpenter.md): Director
- J. Stein Kaplan: Assistant Director

## Writing

- [John Carpenter](https://film.one/person/john-carpenter.md): Screenplay, Original Story
- [Dan O'Bannon](https://film.one/person/dan-obannon.md): Screenplay, Original Story

## Production

- [John Carpenter](https://film.one/person/john-carpenter.md): Producer
- J. Stein Kaplan: Associate Producer
- Jack H. Harris: Executive Producer

## Camera

- [Douglas Knapp](https://film.one/person/douglas-knapp.md): Director of Photography
- [Nick Castle](https://film.one/person/nick-castle.md): Assistant Camera
- Les Rumsey: Key Grip
- Cliff Fenneman: Additional Photography
- [Dale Beldin](https://film.one/person/dale-beldin.md): Additional Photography

## Editing

- [Dan O'Bannon](https://film.one/person/dan-obannon.md): Editor

## Sound and music

- [John Carpenter](https://film.one/person/john-carpenter.md): Original Music Composer
- John Brasher: Sound Effects
- Nick Spaulding: Sound Effects Editor
- Nina Kleinberg: Sound

## Art

- [Dan O'Bannon](https://film.one/person/dan-obannon.md): Production Design

## Visual effects

- Bill Taylor: Visual Effects

## Crew

- [Dan O'Bannon](https://film.one/person/dan-obannon.md): Special Effects
- [Ron Cobb](https://film.one/person/ron-cobb.md): Special Effects
- Gregory Jein: Special Effects
- Bob Greenberg: Special Effects
- Harry Walton: Special Effects
- John C. Wash: Special Effects
- Bill Taylor: Special Effects
- Craig Portman: Creative Consultant
- Jack H. Harris: Presenter

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