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# Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949): cast and crew

35 cast and 48 crew, as credited (TMDB). Cast in billing order.

## Cast

- [Dennis Price](https://film.one/person/dennis-price.md) as Louis Mazzini / His Father
- [Alec Guinness](https://film.one/person/alec-guinness.md) as The D'Ascoyne Family: The Duke / The Banker / The Parson / The General / The Admiral / Young Ascoyne / Young Henry / Lady Agatha
- [Joan Greenwood](https://film.one/person/joan-greenwood.md) as Sibella
- [Valerie Hobson](https://film.one/person/valerie-hobson.md) as Edith D'Ascoyne
- [Audrey Fildes](https://film.one/person/audrey-fildes.md) as Mama
- [Miles Malleson](https://film.one/person/miles-malleson.md) as The Hangman
- [Clive Morton](https://film.one/person/clive-morton.md) as The Prison Governor
- [John Penrose](https://film.one/person/john-penrose.md) as Lionel Holland
- [Cecil Ramage](https://film.one/person/cecil-ramage.md) as Crown Counsel
- [Hugh Griffith](https://film.one/person/hugh-griffith.md) as Lord High Steward
- [John Salew](https://film.one/person/john-salew.md) as Mr. Perkins
- [Eric Messiter](https://film.one/person/eric-messiter.md) as Inspector Burgoyne
- Lyn Evans as The Farmer
- Barbara Leake as The Schoolmistress
- Peggy Ann Clifford as Maud Redpole
- Anne Valery as The Girl in the Punt
- [Arthur Lowe](https://film.one/person/arthur-lowe.md) as The Reporter
- Peter Gawthorne as First Lord Delivering Verdict (uncredited)
- Molly Hamley-Clifford as Lady Redpole (uncredited)
- Leslie Handford as Gamekeeper Hoskins (uncredited)
- Cavan Malone as Young Graham (uncredited)
- Jeremy Spenser as Young Louis (uncredited)
- Carol White as Young Sibella (uncredited)
- Laurence Naismith as Warder in Jail (uncredited)
- Gordon Phillott as Clerk of Parliament (uncredited)
- Richard Wattis as Defence Counsel (uncredited)
- Harold Young as Captain (uncredited)
- Stanley Beard as Warder (uncredited)
- Norman Fisher as Member of D'Ascoyne Household (uncredited)
- Maxwell Foster as Warder (uncredited)
- Fletcher Lightfoot as Peer of the Realm (uncredited)
- Harry Phipps as Lawyer (uncredited)
- Miles Silverton as Lord (uncredited)
- Ivan Staff as Valuer (uncredited)
- George Wilson as Lord (uncredited)

## Directing

- [Robert Hamer](https://film.one/person/robert-hamer.md): Director
- Norman Priggen: Assistant Director
- Phyllis Crocker: Continuity
- John Hewlett: Third Assistant Director
- David W. Orton: Second Assistant Director

## Writing

- Roy Horniman: Novel
- [Robert Hamer](https://film.one/person/robert-hamer.md): Screenplay
- [John Dighton](https://film.one/person/john-dighton.md): Screenplay

## Production

- [Michael Balcon](https://film.one/person/michael-balcon.md): Producer
- Michael Relph: Associate Producer
- Hal Mason: Production Supervisor
- Leigh Aman: Unit Production Manager
- Margaret Harper Nelson: Casting Director

## Camera

- [Douglas Slocombe](https://film.one/person/douglas-slocombe.md): Director of Photography
- Jeff Seaholme: Camera Operator
- Jack Dooley: Still Photographer
- Arthur Lemming: Assistant Camera
- Bob Penn: Still Photographer
- Ken Westbury: Clapper Loader
- Hugh Wilson: Focus Puller

## Editing

- [Peter Tanner](https://film.one/person/peter-tanner.md): Editor
- Roy Baker: Assistant Editor
- [John Jympson](https://film.one/person/john-jympson.md): Assistant Editor
- Seth Holt: Editorial Services

## Sound and music

- [Ernest Irving](https://film.one/person/ernest-irving.md): Original Music Composer, Conductor
- Stephen Dalby: Sound Director
- John W. Mitchell: Sound Recordist
- Norman King: Sound Engineer
- Peter Musgrave: Assistant Sound Editor
- Gordon Stone: ADR & Dubbing

## Art

- William Kellner: Art Direction
- Bert Davey: Assistant Art Director
- Grace Bryan-Brown: Draughtsman
- Norman Dorme: Draughtsman
- Roger Hopkin: Draughtsman
- Jack Shampan: Draughtsman

## Costume and make-up

- Ernest Taylor: Makeup Artist
- Barbara Barnard: Hairstylist
- Pearl Orton: Hairstylist
- Harry Frampton: Makeup Artist
- [Anthony Mendleson](https://film.one/person/anthony-mendleson.md): Costume Design
- Daphne Martin: Assistant Hairstylist
- Edith Crutchley: Wardrobe Master
- Ben Foster: Wardrobe Master

## Crew

- Sydney Pearson: Special Effects
- Geoffrey Dickinson: Special Effects
- Nancy Mitford: Additional Writing
- J. Arthur Rank: Presenter

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