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# The Unknown (1927): cast and crew

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

## Cast

- [Lon Chaney](https://film.one/person/lon-chaney.md) as Alonzo
- [Norman Kerry](https://film.one/person/norman-kerry.md) as Malabar
- [Joan Crawford](https://film.one/person/joan-crawford.md) as Nanon Zanzi
- [Nick De Ruiz](https://film.one/person/nick-de-ruiz.md) as Antonio Zanzi
- [John George](https://film.one/person/john-george.md) as Cojo
- [Frank Lanning](https://film.one/person/frank-lanning.md) as Costra
- [Tom Amandares](https://film.one/person/tom-amandares.md) as Gypsy Running to Zanzi's Death Scene (uncredited)
- [Margaret Bert](https://film.one/person/margaret-bert.md) as Fortune Teller (uncredited)
- [Louise Emmons](https://film.one/person/louise-emmons.md) as Gypsy Woman (uncredited)
- [Italia Frandi](https://film.one/person/italia-frandi.md) as Girl in Audience Flirting with Malabar (uncredited)
- [Venezia Frandi](https://film.one/person/venezia-frandi.md) as Woman in Audience (uncredited)
- [Polly Moran](https://film.one/person/polly-moran.md) as Landlady / Servant in Audience (uncredited)
- Julian Rivero as Man in Theatre Audience (uncredited)
- Billy Seay as The Little Wolf (uncredited)
- Dorothy Seay as Spectator (uncredited)
- John St. Polis as Surgeon (uncredited)

## Directing

- [Tod Browning](https://film.one/person/tod-browning.md): Director
- Harry Sharrock: Assistant Director

## Writing

- [Tod Browning](https://film.one/person/tod-browning.md): Story
- [Waldemar Young](https://film.one/person/waldemar-young.md): Screenplay
- [Joseph Farnham](https://film.one/person/joseph-farnham.md): Writer

## Production

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

## Camera

- [Merritt B. Gerstad](https://film.one/person/merritt-b-gerstad.md): Director of Photography
- Clarence Sinclair Bull: Still Photographer

## Editing

- [Harry Reynolds](https://film.one/person/harry-reynolds.md): Editor
- [Errol Taggart](https://film.one/person/errol-taggart.md): Editor

## Sound and music

- Sam Feinberg: Musician
- Jack Feinberg: Musician

## Art

- [Cedric Gibbons](https://film.one/person/cedric-gibbons.md): Art Direction
- Richard Day: Art Direction

## Costume and make-up

- [Lucia Coulter](https://film.one/person/lucia-coulter.md): Wardrobe Supervisor, Costume Design

## Crew

- Paul Desmuke: Stunt Double
- [Joseph Farnham](https://film.one/person/joseph-farnham.md): Title Graphics

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