THE GREAT DICTATOR (1940)

The Great Dictator
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The Great Dictator
Once again - the whole world laughs!
Comedy, War
October 15, 1940
English
2h 5m
United States
Charles Chaplin Productions
$2,000,000

Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime.

Cast & Characters

Charlie Chaplin

Adenoid Hynkel, Dictator of Tomania / A Jewish Barber

Jack Oakie

Benzino Napaloni, Dictator of Bacteria

Reginald Gardiner

Commander Schultz

Henry Daniell

Garbitsch

Billy Gilbert

Field Marshal Herring

Grace Hayle

Madame Napaloni

Emma Dunn

Mrs. Jaeckel

Paul Weigel

Mr. Agar

Chester Conklin

Barber's Customer

Esther Michelson

Jewish Woman

Hank Mann

Storm Trooper Stealing Fruit

Florence Wright

Blonde Secretary

Eddie Gribbon

Tomanian Storm Trooper

Rudolph Anders

Tomanian Commandant at Osterlich / Robert O. Davis

Eddie Dunn

Whitewashed Storm Trooper

Nita Pike

Secretary

George Lynn

Commander of Storm Troopers

Wheeler Dryden

Heinrich Schtick / Translator (voice)

Fred Aldrich

Soldier (uncredited)

Richard Alexander

Tomainian Prison Guard in 1918 (uncredited)

Sig Arno

Compact Parachute Inventor (uncredited)

Crew

Charlie Chaplin

Original Music Composer

Meredith Willson

Original Music Composer

Karl Struss

Director of Photography

Roland Totheroh

Director of Photography

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