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# The Champ (1931): cast and crew

16 cast and 15 crew, as credited (TMDB). Cast in billing order.

## Cast

- [Wallace Beery](https://film.one/person/wallace-beery.md) as Andy 'Champ' Purcell
- [Jackie Cooper](https://film.one/person/jackie-cooper.md) as Dink Purcell
- [Irene Rich](https://film.one/person/irene-rich.md) as Linda Carleton
- [Roscoe Ates](https://film.one/person/roscoe-ates.md) as Sponge
- [Edward Brophy](https://film.one/person/edward-brophy.md) as Tim
- [Hale Hamilton](https://film.one/person/hale-hamilton.md) as Tony Carleton
- [Jesse Scott](https://film.one/person/jesse-scott.md) as Jonah
- [Marcia Mae Jones](https://film.one/person/marcia-mae-jones.md) as Mary Lou Carleton
- [Dannie Mac Grant](https://film.one/person/dannie-mac-grant.md) as Boy Taunting Dink (uncredited)
- [Frank Hagney](https://film.one/person/frank-hagney.md) as Mexican Champ Manuel Quiroga (uncredited)
- [Dell Henderson](https://film.one/person/dell-henderson.md) as The Doctor (uncredited)
- [Tom McGuire](https://film.one/person/tom-mcguire.md) as Los Angeles Promoter (uncredited)
- Bob Perry as Referee (uncredited)
- Lee Phelps as Louie the Bartender (uncredited)
- Andy Shuford as Boy at Racetrack (uncredited)
- Dan Tobey as Ring Announcer (uncredited)

## Directing

- [King Vidor](https://film.one/person/king-vidor.md): Director
- Robert A. Golden: Assistant Director

## Writing

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

## Production

- [King Vidor](https://film.one/person/king-vidor.md): Producer
- Benjamin Thau: Casting
- [Harry Rapf](https://film.one/person/harry-rapf.md): Producer
- [Irving Thalberg](https://film.one/person/irving-thalberg.md): Producer
- William Murray Weiss: Producer

## Camera

- [Gordon Avil](https://film.one/person/gordon-avil.md): Director of Photography
- Wilbur Bradley: Assistant Camera

## Editing

- [Hugh Wynn](https://film.one/person/hugh-wynn.md): Editor

## Sound and music

- Douglas Shearer: Recording Supervision
- Charles E. Wallace: Sound

## Art

- Cedric Gibbons: Art Direction

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