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# Twelve O'Clock High (1949): cast and crew

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

## Cast

- [Gregory Peck](https://film.one/person/gregory-peck.md) as Brigadier General Frank Savage
- [Hugh Marlowe](https://film.one/person/hugh-marlowe.md) as Lieutenant Colonel Ben Gately
- [Gary Merrill](https://film.one/person/gary-merrill.md) as Colonel Keith Davenport
- [Millard Mitchell](https://film.one/person/millard-mitchell.md) as Major General Patrick Pritchard
- [Dean Jagger](https://film.one/person/dean-jagger.md) as Major / Lieutenant Colonel Harvey Stovall
- [Robert Arthur](https://film.one/person/robert-arthur.md) as Sergeant McIllhenny
- [Paul Stewart](https://film.one/person/paul-stewart.md) as Major "Doc" Kaiser (flight surgeon)
- [John Kellogg](https://film.one/person/john-kellogg.md) as Major Cobb
- [Robert Patten](https://film.one/person/robert-patten.md) as Lieutenant Bishop
- [Lee MacGregor](https://film.one/person/lee-macgregor.md) as Lieutenant Zimmerman
- [Sam Edwards](https://film.one/person/sam-edwards-31705.md) as Lieutenant Birdwell
- [Roger Anderson](https://film.one/person/roger-anderson.md) as Interrogation Officer
- [Lawrence Dobkin](https://film.one/person/lawrence-dobkin.md) as Captain Twombley, group chaplain
- Paul Picerni as Bombardier
- [Harry Lauter](https://film.one/person/harry-lauter.md) as Radio officer
- Barry Jones as Lord Haw-Haw, German radio commentator (voice)
- [Don Gordon](https://film.one/person/don-gordon.md) as First patient in base hospital
- Kenneth Tobey as Sgt. Keller
- Patrick Whyte as Clerk
- Peter Ortiz as Weather Observer

## Directing

- [Henry King](https://film.one/person/henry-king.md): Director

## Writing

- [Sy Bartlett](https://film.one/person/sy-bartlett.md): Screenplay, Novel
- [Beirne Lay Jr.](https://film.one/person/beirne-lay-jr.md): Screenplay, Novel

## Production

- [Darryl F. Zanuck](https://film.one/person/darryl-f-zanuck.md): Producer

## Camera

- [Leon Shamroy](https://film.one/person/leon-shamroy.md): Director of Photography

## Editing

- [Barbara McLean](https://film.one/person/barbara-mclean.md): Editor

## Sound and music

- [Alfred Newman](https://film.one/person/alfred-newman.md): Original Music Composer
- [Edward B. Powell](https://film.one/person/edward-b-powell.md): Orchestrator
- W.D. Flick: Sound
- Roger Heman Sr.: Sound

## Art

- Maurice Ransford: Art Direction
- Lyle R. Wheeler: Art Direction
- Thomas Little: Set Decoration
- Bruce MacDonald: Set Decoration

## Costume and make-up

- Ben Nye: Makeup Artist

## Crew

- Fred Sersen: Special Effects

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