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title: "Silent Running: cast and crew"
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# Silent Running (1972): cast and crew

10 cast and 22 crew, as credited (TMDB). Cast in billing order.

## Cast

- [Bruce Dern](https://film.one/person/bruce-dern.md) as Freeman Lowell
- [Cliff Potts](https://film.one/person/cliff-potts.md) as John Keenan
- [Ron Rifkin](https://film.one/person/ron-rifkin.md) as Marty Barker
- [Jesse Vint](https://film.one/person/jesse-vint.md) as Andy Wolf
- [Mark Persons](https://film.one/person/mark-persons.md) as Grey Drone #1 “Dewey”
- [Steven Brown](https://film.one/person/steven-brown.md) as Orange Drone #2 “Huey”
- [Cheryl Sparks](https://film.one/person/cheryl-sparks.md) as Orange Drone #2 “Huey”
- [Larry Whisenhunt](https://film.one/person/larry-whisenhunt.md) as Green Drone #3 “Louie”
- [Joseph Campanella](https://film.one/person/joseph-campanella.md) as Neal - ‘Berkshire’ Captain (voice/uncredited)
- [Roy Engel](https://film.one/person/roy-engel.md) as Anderson (voice/uncredited)

## Directing

- [Douglas Trumbull](https://film.one/person/douglas-trumbull.md): Director
- Ray Quiroz: Script Supervisor

## Writing

- [Deric Washburn](https://film.one/person/deric-washburn.md): Screenplay
- [Steven Bochco](https://film.one/person/steven-bochco.md): Screenplay
- [Michael Cimino](https://film.one/person/michael-cimino.md): Screenplay

## Production

- [Michael Gruskoff](https://film.one/person/michael-gruskoff.md): Producer
- [Marty Hornstein](https://film.one/person/marty-hornstein.md): Producer
- [Douglas Trumbull](https://film.one/person/douglas-trumbull.md): Producer

## Camera

- [Charles F. Wheeler](https://film.one/person/charles-f-wheeler.md): Director of Photography

## Editing

- [Aaron Stell](https://film.one/person/aaron-stell.md): Editor

## Sound and music

- [Joan Baez](https://film.one/person/joan-baez.md): Theme Song Performance
- John H. Newman: Sound Editor
- Charles T. Knight: Sound
- [Peter Schickele](https://film.one/person/peter-schickele.md): Original Music Composer

## Art

- Frank Lombardo: Set Decoration

## Costume and make-up

- Dick Dawson: Makeup Artist

## Visual effects

- Gerald Endler: Mechanical Designer

## Crew

- Marlin Jones: Special Effects
- James Rugg: Special Effects
- Richard O. Helmer: Special Effects
- Vernon Archer: Special Effects
- R.L. Helmer: Special Effects

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