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title: "Norma Rae: cast and crew"
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cast: 50
crew: 33
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# Norma Rae (1979): cast and crew

50 cast and 33 crew, as credited (TMDB). Cast in billing order.

## Cast

- [Sally Field](https://film.one/person/sally-field.md) as Norma Rae
- [Ron Leibman](https://film.one/person/ron-leibman.md) as Reuben
- [Beau Bridges](https://film.one/person/beau-bridges.md) as Sonny
- [Pat Hingle](https://film.one/person/pat-hingle.md) as Vernon
- [Barbara Baxley](https://film.one/person/barbara-baxley.md) as Leona
- [Gail Strickland](https://film.one/person/gail-strickland.md) as Bonnie Mae
- [Morgan Paull](https://film.one/person/morgan-paull.md) as Wayne Billings
- [Robert Broyles](https://film.one/person/robert-broyles.md) as Sam Bolen
- [John Calvin](https://film.one/person/john-calvin.md) as Ellis Harper
- [Booth Colman](https://film.one/person/booth-colman.md) as Dr. Watson
- [Lee de Broux](https://film.one/person/lee-de-broux.md) as Lujan
- [James Luisi](https://film.one/person/james-luisi.md) as George Benson
- Vernon Weddle as Reverend Hubbard
- Gilbert Green as Al Landon
- [Robert Lee Minor](https://film.one/person/bob-minor.md) as Lucius White
- [Grace Zabriskie](https://film.one/person/grace-zabriskie.md) as Linette Odum
- Stuart Culpepper as Ray Towner
- Mary Munday as Mrs. Johnson
- Jack Stryker as J.J. Davis
- [Gregory Walcott](https://film.one/person/gregory-walcott.md) as Lamar Miller
- [Noble Willingham](https://film.one/person/noble-willingham.md) as Leroy Mason
- Lonny Chapman as Gardner
- [Bert Freed](https://film.one/person/bert-freed.md) as Sam Dakin
- Bob Hannah as Jed Buffum
- Edith Ivey as Louise Pickens
- Scott Lawton as Craig
- [Frank McRae](https://film.one/person/frank-mcrae.md) as James Brown
- Gerry Okuneff as Pinkerton Man
- Gina Kaye Pounders as Millie
- Henry Slate as Policeman
- Melissa Ann Wait as Alice
- [Joe Dorsey](https://film.one/person/joe-dorsey.md) as Woodrow Thompson
- Sherry Velvet Foster as Velma Stackhouse
- Weona T. Brown as Hot Dog Vendor
- Carolyn Danforth as Mavis Pruitt
- James W. Harris as Mill Worker
- Charlie Briggs as Warren Latting
- Billie Joyce Buck as Agnes Roy
- Fred Covington as Alston Purvis
- J. Don Ferguson as Peter Gallat
- Sandra Dorsey as Jail Matron
- Harold E. Finch as Agent
- Clayton Landey as Teddy Bob Keeler
- Bill Pannell as Billy Stettin
- George R. Robertson as Farmer
- Thomas D. Samford III as Justice of the Peace
- Roy Tatum as Woodrow Bowser
- Paul Ellen as TV Reporter (uncredited)
- Jerry Michael Ray as TV Reporter (uncredited)
- [Martin Ritt](https://film.one/person/martin-ritt.md) as Factory Worker (uncredited)

## Directing

- [Martin Ritt](https://film.one/person/martin-ritt.md): Director
- James Nicholson: Assistant Director
- Skip Surguine: Second Assistant Director
- H. Bud Otto: Script Supervisor

## Writing

- [Irving Ravetch](https://film.one/person/irving-ravetch.md): Screenplay
- [Harriet Frank Jr.](https://film.one/person/harriet-frank-jr.md): Screenplay
- Norman Gimbel: Lyricist

## Production

- [Tamara Asseyev](https://film.one/person/tamara-asseyev.md): Producer
- [Alexandra Rose](https://film.one/person/alexandra-rose.md): Producer
- Jane Feinberg: Casting
- Mike Fenton: Casting

## Camera

- [John A. Alonzo](https://film.one/person/john-a-alonzo.md): Director of Photography

## Editing

- Margaret Adachi: Assistant Editor
- Cliffe Oland: Assistant Editor
- [Sidney Levin](https://film.one/person/sidney-levin.md): Editor

## Sound and music

- Bruce Bisenz: Sound Mixer
- William Hartman: Sound Editor
- Godfrey Marks: Dialogue Editor
- Theodore Soderberg: Sound Re-Recording Mixer
- Richard Sperber: Sound Editor
- Paul Wells: Sound Re-Recording Mixer
- Douglas O. Williams: Sound Re-Recording Mixer
- [David Shire](https://film.one/person/david-shire.md): Original Music Composer, Songs
- Norman Gimbel: Sound

## Art

- [Walter Scott Herndon](https://film.one/person/walter-scott-herndon.md): Production Design
- Tracy Bousman: Art Direction
- Gregory Garrison: Set Decoration
- Dan Perri: Title Designer

## Costume and make-up

- Tom Ellingwood: Makeup Artist
- Lola 'Skip' McNalley: Hairstylist
- William Turner: Makeup Artist
- Elaina P. Schulman: Hairstylist

## Crew

- William Van der Byl: Special Effects

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