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title: "The Manchurian Candidate: cast and crew"
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cast: 32
crew: 58
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# The Manchurian Candidate (1962): cast and crew

32 cast and 58 crew, as credited (TMDB). Cast in billing order.

## Cast

- [Frank Sinatra](https://film.one/person/frank-sinatra.md) as Capt./Maj. Bennett Marco
- [Laurence Harvey](https://film.one/person/laurence-harvey.md) as Raymond Shaw
- [Angela Lansbury](https://film.one/person/angela-lansbury.md) as Mrs. Iselin
- [Janet Leigh](https://film.one/person/janet-leigh.md) as Eugenie Rose Chaney
- [James Gregory](https://film.one/person/james-gregory-14732.md) as Sen. John Yerkes Iselin
- [Henry Silva](https://film.one/person/henry-silva.md) as Chunjin
- [Leslie Parrish](https://film.one/person/leslie-parrish.md) as Jocelyn Jordan
- [John McGiver](https://film.one/person/john-mcgiver.md) as Sen. Thomas Jordan
- [Khigh Dhiegh](https://film.one/person/khigh-dhiegh.md) as Dr. Yen Lo
- [James Edwards](https://film.one/person/james-edwards.md) as Cpl. Allen Melvin
- [Douglas Henderson](https://film.one/person/douglas-henderson.md) as Col. Milt
- [Albert Paulsen](https://film.one/person/albert-paulsen.md) as Zilkov
- [Barry Kelley](https://film.one/person/barry-kelley.md) as Secretary of Defense
- Lloyd Corrigan as Holborn Gaines
- Madame Spivy as Female Berezovo
- [Bess Flowers](https://film.one/person/bess-flowers.md) as Gomel's Lady Counterpart (uncredited)
- Leoda Richards as Woman at Press Confrence (uncredited)
- [Reggie Nalder](https://film.one/person/reggie-nalder.md) as Gomel (uncredited)
- [Colin Kenny](https://film.one/person/colin-kenny.md) as Senator (uncredited)
- Bert Stevens as Officer
- Arthur Tovey as Second Reporter
- Paul Frees as Narrator (voice)
- [Whit Bissell](https://film.one/person/whit-bissell.md) as Medical Officer
- James Yagi as Chinese Officer (uncredited)
- Tom Lowell as Pvt. Bobby Lembeck (uncredited)
- [Joe Adams](https://film.one/person/joe-adams-1594319.md) as Psychiatrist
- Merritt Bohn as Jilly
- Robert Riordan as Benjamin K. Arthur
- Raoul Freeman as Reporter (uncredited)
- Rudy Germane as Delegate (uncredited)
- Herschel Graham as Delegate (uncredited)
- Stuart Hall as Reporter (uncredited)

## Directing

- [John Frankenheimer](https://film.one/person/john-frankenheimer.md): Director
- Joseph C. Behm: Assistant Director
- David Salven: Assistant Director
- Read Killgore: Assistant Director
- Mollie Kent: Script Supervisor
- Amalia Wade: Script Supervisor
- Grace Dubray: Script Supervisor

## Writing

- [George Axelrod](https://film.one/person/george-axelrod.md): Screenplay
- [Richard Condon](https://film.one/person/richard-condon.md): Novel

## Production

- [George Axelrod](https://film.one/person/george-axelrod.md): Producer
- [Howard W. Koch](https://film.one/person/howard-w-koch.md): Executive Producer
- [John Frankenheimer](https://film.one/person/john-frankenheimer.md): Producer
- Gene Martell: Production Assistant

## Camera

- [Lionel Lindon](https://film.one/person/lionel-lindon.md): Director of Photography
- John Mehl: Camera Operator
- Felix Barlow: Assistant Camera
- Eugene Levitt: Assistant Camera
- [William Read Woodfield](https://film.one/person/william-read-woodfield.md): Still Photographer
- Bill Craemer: Still Photographer

## Editing

- [Ferris Webster](https://film.one/person/ferris-webster.md): Editor
- Carl Mahakian: Assistant Editor

## Sound and music

- [David Amram](https://film.one/person/david-amram.md): Original Music Composer
- Richard Carruth: Music Editor
- Del Harris: Sound Effects Editor
- Joe Edmondson: Sound Mixer
- Bill Flannery: Boom Operator

## Art

- [Philip M. Jefferies](https://film.one/person/philip-m-jefferies.md): Art Direction, Assistant Art Director
- [Richard Sylbert](https://film.one/person/richard-sylbert.md): Production Design
- George R. Nelson: Set Decoration
- Arden Cripe: Property Master
- Richard Borland: Props
- John M. Elliot: Set Dresser
- Gaylin P. Schultz: Props
- Seymour Klate: Set Dresser
- Richard M. Rubin: Props
- Joseph S. Toldy: Set Dresser
- Lucius O. Croxton: Set Dresser

## Costume and make-up

- [Moss Mabry](https://film.one/person/moss-mabry.md): Costume Design
- Ron Berkeley: Makeup Artist
- Mary Westmoreland: Hairstylist
- Bernard Ponedel: Makeup Artist
- Jack Freeman: Makeup Artist
- Gene Shacove: Hairstylist
- Morris Brown: Wardrobe Master
- [Ron Talsky](https://film.one/person/ron-talsky.md): Wardrobe Master
- Wesley Jeffries: Costumer
- Rose Viebeck: Wardrobe Master
- Angela Alexander: Wardrobe Specialized Technician
- Dorothy Parkinson: Makeup Artist

## Lighting

- Robert Campbell: Gaffer

## Crew

- A. Paul Pollard: Special Effects
- Thom Conroy: Dialect Coach
- John Indrisano: Stunt Coordinator
- Al Wyatt Sr.: Stunt Double
- Beau Vanden Ecker: Stunt Coordinator
- Gordon Doversola: Stunt Coordinator
- Joe Gray: Stunts
- Robert "Buzz" Henry: Stunt Double

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