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title: "Great Expectations: cast and crew"
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cast: 28
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# Great Expectations (1946): cast and crew

28 cast and 32 crew, as credited (TMDB). Cast in billing order.

## Cast

- [John Mills](https://film.one/person/john-mills.md) as Pip
- [Valerie Hobson](https://film.one/person/valerie-hobson.md) as Estella
- [Tony Wager](https://film.one/person/tony-wager.md) as Young Pip
- [Jean Simmons](https://film.one/person/jean-simmons.md) as Young Estella
- [Bernard Miles](https://film.one/person/bernard-miles.md) as Joe Gargery
- [Francis L. Sullivan](https://film.one/person/francis-l-sullivan.md) as Mr. Jaggers
- [Finlay Currie](https://film.one/person/finlay-currie.md) as Abel Magwitch
- [Martita Hunt](https://film.one/person/martita-hunt.md) as Miss Havisham
- [Alec Guinness](https://film.one/person/alec-guinness.md) as Herbert Pocket
- [Ivor Barnard](https://film.one/person/ivor-barnard.md) as Mr. Wemmick
- [Freda Jackson](https://film.one/person/freda-jackson.md) as Mrs. Joe
- [Eileen Erskine](https://film.one/person/eileen-erskine.md) as Biddy
- George Hayes as Convict
- Hay Petrie as Uncle Pumblechook
- John Forrest as The Pale Young Gentleman
- [Torin Thatcher](https://film.one/person/torin-thatcher.md) as Bentley Drummle
- O.B. Clarence as The Aged Parent
- John Burch as Mr. Wopsle
- Richard George as The Sergeant
- Grace Denbigh Russell as Mrs. Wopsle
- [Everley Gregg](https://film.one/person/everley-gregg.md) as Sarah Pocket
- Anne Holland as Relation
- Frank Atkinson as Mike
- Gordon Begg as Night Porter
- Edie Martin as Mrs. Whimple
- Walford Hyden as The Dancing Master
- Roy Arthur as Galley Steersman
- Howard Lang as Man sitting next to Pip at Magwitch's Trial (uncredited)

## Directing

- [David Lean](https://film.one/person/david-lean.md): Director
- George Pollock: Assistant Director
- Maggie Unsworth: Continuity

## Writing

- [Kay Walsh](https://film.one/person/kay-walsh.md): Screenplay
- [Ronald Neame](https://film.one/person/ronald-neame.md): Screenplay
- Charles Dickens: Novel
- [Cecil McGivern](https://film.one/person/cecil-mcgivern.md): Screenplay
- [Anthony Havelock-Allan](https://film.one/person/anthony-havelock-allan.md): Screenplay
- [David Lean](https://film.one/person/david-lean.md): Screenplay

## Production

- Adele Raymond: Casting
- Maude Spector: Casting
- Pat MacDonnell: Casting
- [Anthony Havelock-Allan](https://film.one/person/anthony-havelock-allan.md): Executive Producer
- [Ronald Neame](https://film.one/person/ronald-neame.md): Producer
- Norman Spencer: Production Manager

## Camera

- [Guy Green](https://film.one/person/guy-green.md): Director of Photography
- Robert Huke: Camera Operator
- Jim Body: Focus Puller

## Editing

- [Jack Harris](https://film.one/person/jack-harris.md): Editor

## Sound and music

- [Walter Goehr](https://film.one/person/walter-goehr.md): Original Music Composer, Conductor
- Winston Ryder: Sound Editor
- Gordon K. McCallum: Sound Recordist
- Stanley Lambourne: Sound Recordist
- George Paternoster: Boom Operator

## Art

- Wilfred Shingleton: Art Direction
- [John Bryan](https://film.one/person/john-bryan.md): Production Design
- Erik Blakemore: Set Decoration

## Costume and make-up

- George Blackler: Makeup Artist
- [Sophie Devine](https://film.one/person/sophie-devine.md): Costume Design
- Ernest Gasser: Makeup Artist
- Margaret Furse: Assistant Costume Designer

## Crew

- Suria Magito: Choreographer

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