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title: "Fried Green Tomatoes: cast and crew"
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cast: 42
crew: 40
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# Fried Green Tomatoes (1991): cast and crew

42 cast and 40 crew, as credited (TMDB). Cast in billing order.

## Cast

- [Kathy Bates](https://film.one/person/kathy-bates.md) as Evelyn Couch
- [Jessica Tandy](https://film.one/person/jessica-tandy.md) as Ninny Threadgoode
- [Mary-Louise Parker](https://film.one/person/mary-louise-parker.md) as Ruth Jamison
- [Mary Stuart Masterson](https://film.one/person/mary-stuart-masterson.md) as Idgie Threadgoode
- [Cicely Tyson](https://film.one/person/cicely-tyson.md) as Sipsey
- [Stan Shaw](https://film.one/person/stan-shaw.md) as Big George
- [Chris O'Donnell](https://film.one/person/chris-odonnell.md) as Buddy Threadgoode
- [Gailard Sartain](https://film.one/person/gailard-sartain.md) as Ed Couch
- [Timothy Scott](https://film.one/person/timothy-scott.md) as Smokey Lonesome
- [Gary Basaraba](https://film.one/person/gary-basaraba.md) as Grady Kilgore
- [Lois Smith](https://film.one/person/lois-smith.md) as Mama Threadgoode
- [Jo Harvey Allen](https://film.one/person/jo-harvey-allen.md) as Woman's Awareness Teacher
- [Fannie Flagg](https://film.one/person/fannie-flagg.md) as Teacher
- Suzi Bass as Nurse
- Tom Even as Judge
- Afton Smith as Leona Threadgoode
- Haynes Brooke as Older Julian Threadgoode
- Wallace Merck as KKK Man
- [Richard Riehle](https://film.one/person/richard-riehle.md) as Reverend Scroggins
- Constance Shulman as Missy
- [Nick Searcy](https://film.one/person/nick-searcy.md) as Frank Bennett
- Macon McCalman as Prosecutor Percy
- [Raynor Scheine](https://film.one/person/raynor-scheine.md) as Sheriff Curtis Smoote
- [Grace Zabriskie](https://film.one/person/grace-zabriskie.md) as Eva Bates
- Reid Binion as Young Julian Threadgoode
- Danny Nelson as Papa Threadgoode
- Nancy Moore Atchison as Little Idgie Threadgoode
- Ginny Parker as Ruth's Mother
- Tres Holton as Boy at Supermarket
- Ron McCall as Ocie
- David Dwyer as Hooded Man
- Lashondra Phillips as Young Naughty Bird
- Kathy Larson as Beetle Girl #1
- Missy Wolff as Beetle Girl #2
- [LaTanya Richardson Jackson](https://film.one/person/latanya-richardson-jackson.md) as Janeen
- Grayson Fricke as Buddy Threadgoode Jr.
- Enjolik Oree as Older Naughty Bird
- Genevieve Fisher as Peggy Hadley
- Bob Hannah as Defense Attorney
- Ted Manson as Bailiff
- Carol Mitchell-Leon as Sue Otis
- Evan Lockwood as Tim

## Directing

- [Jon Avnet](https://film.one/person/jon-avnet.md): Director
- Jeff Rafner: Second Assistant Director
- Deborah Love: First Assistant Director

## Writing

- [Fannie Flagg](https://film.one/person/fannie-flagg.md): Screenplay, Novel
- [Carol Sobieski](https://film.one/person/carol-sobieski.md): Screenplay

## Production

- Martin Huberty: Co-Producer
- Anne Marie Gillen: Executive Producer
- [Jon Avnet](https://film.one/person/jon-avnet.md): Producer
- [Norman Lear](https://film.one/person/norman-lear.md): Executive Producer
- [Jordan Kerner](https://film.one/person/jordan-kerner.md): Producer
- Ric Rondell: Co-Producer
- David Rubin: Casting Director
- Tom Taylor: Executive Producer
- Deborah Love: Associate Producer
- [Barbara Ling](https://film.one/person/barbara-ling.md): Associate Producer
- Lisa Lindstrom: Co-Producer
- Andrew Meyer: Executive Producer

## Camera

- [Geoffrey Simpson](https://film.one/person/geoffrey-simpson.md): Director of Photography

## Editing

- [Debra Neil-Fisher](https://film.one/person/debra-neil-fisher.md): Editor

## Sound and music

- Arthur Baker: Music Supervisor
- Walter Newman: Supervising Sound Editor
- Mary H. Ellis: Sound Mixer
- Alan Robert Murray: Supervising Sound Editor
- Kathy Nelson: Music Supervisor
- Bill Bernstein: Music Editor
- [Thomas Newman](https://film.one/person/thomas-newman.md): Original Music Composer

## Art

- Debra Schutt: Set Decoration
- [Larry Fulton](https://film.one/person/larry-fulton.md): Art Direction
- [Barbara Ling](https://film.one/person/barbara-ling.md): Production Design

## Costume and make-up

- Fern Buchner: Makeup Artist
- Cydney Cornell: Hairstylist
- [Elizabeth McBride](https://film.one/person/elizabeth-mcbride.md): Costume Design
- Colleen Callaghan: Key Hair Stylist

## Lighting

- Morris Flam: Gaffer

## Crew

- Kerrie Cullen: Stunt Coordinator
- Bruce Paul Barbour: Stunts
- Laura Dash: Stunts
- Dick Hancock: Stunts
- Tracy Keehn-Dashnaw: Stunts
- Joy Hooper: Stunts

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