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cast: 49
crew: 17
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# The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946): cast and crew

49 cast and 17 crew, as credited (TMDB). Cast in billing order.

## Cast

- [John Garfield](https://film.one/person/john-garfield.md) as Frank Chambers
- [Lana Turner](https://film.one/person/lana-turner.md) as Cora Smith
- [Cecil Kellaway](https://film.one/person/cecil-kellaway.md) as Nick Smith
- [Hume Cronyn](https://film.one/person/hume-cronyn.md) as Arthur Keats
- [Leon Ames](https://film.one/person/leon-ames.md) as Kyle Sackett
- [Audrey Totter](https://film.one/person/audrey-totter.md) as Madge Gorland
- [Alan Reed](https://film.one/person/alan-reed.md) as Ezra Liam Kennedy
- [Jeff York](https://film.one/person/jeff-york.md) as Blair
- [Philip Ahlm](https://film.one/person/philip-ahlm.md) as Photographer (uncredited)
- [John Alban](https://film.one/person/john-alban.md) as Photographer (uncredited)
- [Don Anderson](https://film.one/person/don-anderson.md) as Orderly Pushing Wheelchair (uncredited)
- [Morris Ankrum](https://film.one/person/morris-ankrum.md) as Judge (uncredited)
- King Baggot as Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
- Betty Blythe as Customer (uncredited)
- Paul Bradley as Man (uncredited)
- [Wally Cassell](https://film.one/person/wally-cassell.md) as Ben (uncredited)
- Jack Chefe as Headwaiter (uncredited)
- Dick Crockett as Reporter (uncredited)
- Oliver Cross as Man (uncredited)
- James Darrell as Reporter (uncredited)
- Tom Dillon as Father McConnell (uncredited)
- Edward Earle as Doctor (uncredited)
- [James Farley](https://film.one/person/jim-farley.md) as Warden (uncredited)
- [Byron Foulger](https://film.one/person/byron-foulger.md) as Picnic Manager (uncredited)
- Joel Friedkin as John X. McHugh (uncredited)
- A. Cameron Grant as Willie (uncredited)
- Robert Haines as Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
- William Halligan as Judge (uncredited)
- Bud Harrison as Bailiff (uncredited)
- Paul Kruger as Officer (uncredited)
- Frank Mayo as Bailiff (uncredited)
- Helen McLeod as Customer (uncredited)
- Harold Miller as Photographer (uncredited)
- Howard M. Mitchell as Doctor (uncredited)
- Sandra Morgan as Matron (uncredited)
- George Noisom as Telegraph Messenger (uncredited)
- Garry Owen as Truck Driver (uncredited)
- Dorothy Phillips as Nurse (uncredited)
- Dan Quigg as Man (uncredited)
- Virginia L. Randolph as Snooty Woman (uncredited)
- Paula Ray as Woman (uncredited)
- Hilda Rhodes as Customer (uncredited)
- Walter Ridge as Reporter (uncredited)
- Jeffrey Sayre as Reporter (uncredited)
- Edgar Sherrod as Minor Role (uncredited)
- Reginald Simpson as Photographer (uncredited)
- Brick Sullivan as Officer (uncredited)
- John M. Sullivan as Doctor (uncredited)
- Charles Williams as Doctor (uncredited)

## Directing

- [Tay Garnett](https://film.one/person/tay-garnett.md): Director
- Bill Lewis: Assistant Director

## Writing

- [Harry Ruskin](https://film.one/person/harry-ruskin.md): Screenplay
- [Niven Busch](https://film.one/person/niven-busch.md): Screenplay
- James M. Cain: Novel

## Production

- [Carey Wilson](https://film.one/person/carey-wilson.md): Producer

## Camera

- [Sidney Wagner](https://film.one/person/sidney-wagner.md): Director of Photography

## Editing

- [George White](https://film.one/person/george-white-120314.md): Editor

## Sound and music

- [George Bassman](https://film.one/person/george-bassman.md): Original Music Composer
- Douglas Shearer: Sound Director, Recording Supervision
- Ted Duncan: Orchestrator

## Art

- [Cedric Gibbons](https://film.one/person/cedric-gibbons.md): Art Direction
- Randall Duell: Art Direction
- Edwin B. Willis: Set Decoration

## Costume and make-up

- [Irene Lentz](https://film.one/person/irene.md): Costume Supervisor
- Jack Dawn: Makeup Artist
- Marion Herwood Keyes: Costume Assistant

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