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title: "The Defiant Ones: cast and crew"
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# The Defiant Ones (1958): cast and crew

14 cast and 21 crew, as credited (TMDB). Cast in billing order.

## Cast

- [Tony Curtis](https://film.one/person/tony-curtis.md) as John 'Joker' Jackson
- [Sidney Poitier](https://film.one/person/sidney-poitier.md) as Noah Cullen
- [Theodore Bikel](https://film.one/person/theodore-bikel.md) as Sheriff Max Muller
- [Charles McGraw](https://film.one/person/charles-mcgraw.md) as Capt. Frank Gibbons
- [Lon Chaney Jr.](https://film.one/person/lon-chaney-jr.md) as Big Sam
- [King Donovan](https://film.one/person/king-donovan.md) as Solly
- [Claude Akins](https://film.one/person/claude-akins.md) as Mack
- [Lawrence Dobkin](https://film.one/person/lawrence-dobkin.md) as Editor
- [Whit Bissell](https://film.one/person/whit-bissell.md) as Lou Gans
- [Carl Switzer](https://film.one/person/carl-switzer.md) as Angus
- [Kevin Coughlin](https://film.one/person/kevin-coughlin.md) as Billy
- [Cara Williams](https://film.one/person/cara-williams.md) as Billy's mother
- [Ned Glass](https://film.one/person/ned-glass.md) as Doctor
- [Nedrick Young](https://film.one/person/nedrick-young.md) as Prison Guard

## Directing

- [Stanley Kramer](https://film.one/person/stanley-kramer.md): Director
- Paul Helmick: Assistant Director
- John Franco: Script Supervisor

## Writing

- [Nedrick Young](https://film.one/person/nedrick-young.md): Writer
- [Harold Jacob Smith](https://film.one/person/harold-jacob-smith.md): Writer

## Production

- [Stanley Kramer](https://film.one/person/stanley-kramer.md): Producer
- Clem Beauchamp: Production Manager

## Camera

- [Sam Leavitt](https://film.one/person/sam-leavitt.md): Director of Photography
- Albert Myers: Camera Operator

## Editing

- [Frederic Knudtson](https://film.one/person/frederic-knudtson.md): Editor

## Sound and music

- [Ernest Gold](https://film.one/person/ernest-gold.md): Original Music Composer
- Jean L. Speak: Sound Engineer
- Walter Elliott: Sound Effects

## Art

- [Rudolph Sternad](https://film.one/person/rudolph-sternad.md): Production Design
- Fernando Carrere: Art Direction
- Joseph Kish: Set Decoration
- Art Cole: Property Master

## Costume and make-up

- Don L. Cash: Makeup Artist
- [Joe King](https://film.one/person/joe-king.md): Costume Supervisor

## Lighting

- James Almond: Gaffer

## Crew

- Alex Weldon: Special Effects

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