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cast: 55
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# Threads (1984): cast and crew

55 cast and 27 crew, as credited (TMDB). Cast in billing order.

## Cast

- [Karen Meagher](https://film.one/person/karen-meagher.md) as Ruth Beckett
- [Reece Dinsdale](https://film.one/person/reece-dinsdale.md) as Jimmy Kemp
- [David Brierly](https://film.one/person/david-brierly.md) as Mr. Kemp
- [Rita May](https://film.one/person/rita-may.md) as Mrs. Kemp
- [Nicholas Lane](https://film.one/person/nicholas-lane.md) as Michael Kemp
- [Jane Hazlegrove](https://film.one/person/jane-hazlegrove.md) as Alison Kemp
- [Henry Moxon](https://film.one/person/henry-moxon.md) as Mr Beckett
- [June Broughton](https://film.one/person/june-broughton.md) as Mrs Beckett
- [Sylvia Stoker](https://film.one/person/sylvia-stoker.md) as Granny Beckett
- [Harry Beety](https://film.one/person/harry-beety.md) as Clive Sutton
- [Ruth Holden](https://film.one/person/ruth-holden.md) as Marjorie Sutton
- [Ashley Barker](https://film.one/person/ashley-barker.md) as Bob
- Michael O'Hagan as Chief Supt. Hirst
- Phil Rose as Medical Officer
- Steve Halliwell as Information Officer
- Brian Grellis as Accommodation Officer
- Peter Faulkner as Transport Officer
- Anthony Collin as Food Officer
- Michael Ely as Scientific Officer
- Sharon Baylis as Manpower Officer
- David Stutt as Works Officer
- Phil Askham as Mr Stothard
- Anna Seymour as Mrs Stothard
- Fiona Rook as Carol Stothard
- Christine Buckley as Woman in Supermarket
- Joe Belcher as Shopkeeper
- David Major as Boy in Supermarket
- Maggie Ford as Peace Speaker
- Mike Kay as Trade Unionist
- Richard Albrecht as Officer at Food Depot
- Ted Beyer as Policeman
- Dean Williamson as Policeman
- Joe Holmes as Mr Langley
- Andy Fenn-Rodgers as Patrol Officer
- Graham Hill as Soldier
- Nigel Collins as Soldier
- Jerry Ready as Looter
- Dennis Conlon as Looter
- Greta Dunn as Woman at Hospital
- Nat Jackley as Old Man at Graveyard
- John Livesey as Street Trader
- Victoria O'Keefe as Jane
- Lee Daley as Spike
- Marcus Lund as Gaz
- Lesley Judd as Newscaster
- Colin Ward-Lewis as Newscaster
- Paul Vaughan as Narrator (voice)
- Ingrid P. Frehley as Woman with dead baby (uncredited)
- Michael Shale as Man who has leg amputated (uncredited)
- Anne Sellors as Woman with child (uncredited)
- Michael Beecroft as Traffic Warden (uncredited)
- Lee Cambell as Dead Boy Under Gate (uncredited)
- Jonathan Harston as Survivor on the Moors (uncredited)
- [Patrick Allen](https://film.one/person/patrick-allen.md) as Public Information Film Announcer (voice) (uncredited)
- [Ed Bishop](https://film.one/person/ed-bishop.md) as US President (voice) (uncredited)

## Directing

- [Mick Jackson](https://film.one/person/mick-jackson.md): Director

## Writing

- [Barry Hines](https://film.one/person/barry-hines.md): Writer

## Production

- [Mick Jackson](https://film.one/person/mick-jackson.md): Producer
- John Purdie: Executive Producer
- Peter Wolfes: Associate Producer
- Graham Massey: Executive Producer
- Matthew Kuipers: Production Manager
- Jacinta Peel: Production Manager

## Camera

- [Paul Morris](https://film.one/person/paul-morris.md): Director of Photography
- [Andrew Dunn](https://film.one/person/andrew-dunn.md): Director of Photography
- Dion M. Casey: Camera Trainee

## Editing

- [Jim Latham](https://film.one/person/jim-latham.md): Editor
- [Donna Bickerstaff](https://film.one/person/donna-bickerstaff.md): Editor

## Sound and music

- Graham Ross: Sound Recordist
- Fraser Barber: Boom Operator

## Art

- [Christopher Robilliard](https://film.one/person/christopher-robilliard.md): Production Design
- Andy Coward: Graphic Designer

## Costume and make-up

- [Sally Nieper](https://film.one/person/sally-nieper.md): Costume Design
- Gilly Martin: Costume Supervisor
- Jan Nethercot: Makeup Designer

## Visual effects

- Peter Wragg: Visual Effects
- Graham Brown: Visual Effects

## Crew

- Peter Kersey: Special Effects
- Dorothy Ford: Stunts
- Robert Jay Lifton: Scientific Consultant
- Joseph Rotblat: Scientific Consultant
- Carl Sagan: Scientific Consultant

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