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title: "The Big House: cast and crew"
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crew: 12
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# The Big House (1930): cast and crew

22 cast and 12 crew, as credited (TMDB). Cast in billing order.

## Cast

- [Chester Morris](https://film.one/person/chester-morris.md) as John Morgan
- [Wallace Beery](https://film.one/person/wallace-beery.md) as Machine Gun 'Butch' Schmidt
- [Lewis Stone](https://film.one/person/lewis-stone.md) as Warden James Adams
- [Robert Montgomery](https://film.one/person/robert-montgomery.md) as Kent Marlowe
- [Leila Hyams](https://film.one/person/leila-hyams.md) as Anne Marlowe
- [George F. Marion](https://film.one/person/george-f-marion.md) as Pop
- [J. C. Nugent](https://film.one/person/j-c-nugent.md) as Mr. Marlowe
- [Karl Dane](https://film.one/person/karl-dane.md) as Olsen
- [DeWitt Clarke Jennings](https://film.one/person/dewitt-jennings.md) as Wallace
- [Matthew Betz](https://film.one/person/matthew-betz.md) as Gopher
- [Claire McDowell](https://film.one/person/claire-mcdowell.md) as Mrs. Marlowe
- [Robert Emmett O'Connor](https://film.one/person/robert-emmett-oconnor.md) as Donlin
- Tom Wilson as Sandy
- Eddie Foyer as Dopey
- [Roscoe Ates](https://film.one/person/roscoe-ates.md) as Putnam
- Fletcher Norton as Oliver
- [Noah Beery Jr.](https://film.one/person/noah-beery-jr.md) as Convict in Yard (uncredited)
- Chris-Pin Martin as Inmate (uncredited)
- [Louis Natheaux](https://film.one/person/louis-natheaux.md) as Morgan's Lawyer (uncredited)
- Herbert Prior as Prison Doctor (uncredited)
- Harry Wilson as Inmate #46375 (uncredited)
- [Angelo Rossitto](https://film.one/person/angelo-rossitto.md) as Inmate (uncredited)

## Directing

- [George W. Hill](https://film.one/person/george-w-hill.md): Director
- Harry Sharrock: Assistant Director

## Writing

- [Frances Marion](https://film.one/person/frances-marion.md): Story, Dialogue, Writer

## Production

- [Irving Thalberg](https://film.one/person/irving-thalberg.md): Producer

## Camera

- [Harold Wenstrom](https://film.one/person/harold-wenstrom.md): Director of Photography

## Editing

- [Blanche Sewell](https://film.one/person/blanche-sewell.md): Editor

## Sound and music

- Douglas Shearer: Sound
- Robert Shirley: Sound

## Art

- Cedric Gibbons: Art Direction

## Costume and make-up

- [David Cox](https://film.one/person/david-cox-1296653.md): Costume Design

## Crew

- [Joseph Farnham](https://film.one/person/joseph-farnham.md): Additional Dialogue
- Martin Flavin: Additional Dialogue

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