Bananas (1971) Cast & Crew

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Directed by Woody Allen.

Cast

• Woody Allen as Fielding Mellish
• Louise Lasser as Nancy
• Carlos Montalbán as General Emilio M. Vargas
• Nati Abascal as Yolanda
• Jacobo Morales as Esposito
• Miguel Ángel Suárez as Luis
• René Enríquez as Diaz
• Jack Axelrod as Arroyo
• Howard Cosell as Himself
• Charlotte Rae as Mrs. Ruth Mellish
• Stanley Ackerman as Dr. Al Mellish
• Dorothi Fox as J. Edgar Hoover
• Eddie Barth as Paul
• Conrad Bain as Semple
• Baron De Beer as British Ambassador
• Allen Garfield as Man On Cross
• Roger Grimsby as Himself
• Don Dunphy as Himself
• Dan Frazer as Priest
• Martha Greenhouse as Dr. Feigen
• Axel Anderson as Man Tortured
• El Tigre Pérez as Perez
• Arthur Hughes as Judge
• John Braden as Prosecutor
• Ted Chapman as Policeman
• Dagne Crane as Sharon
• Nicholas Saunders as Douglas
• Eulogio Peraza as The Interpreter
• Norman Evans as Senator
• Bob O'Connell as FBI Man #1
• Robert Dudley as FBI Man #2
• Marilyn Hengst as Norma
• Ed Crowley as FBI Security
• Beeson Carroll as FBI Security
• Princess Fatosh as Snake Bite Lady
• Dick Callinan as Cigarette Commercial Man
• Hy Anzell as Patient in Operating Room
• Sylvester Stallone as Subway Thug #1 (uncredited)
• Mary Jo Catlett as Woman in Hotel Lobby Cheering Honeymoon (uncredited)
• Tino García

Crew

• Antonio Encarnacion — Producer
• Manolo Villamil — Producer
• Woody Allen — Director
• Andrew M. Costikyan — Director of Photography
• Jack Grossberg — Producer
• Marvin Hamlisch — Original Music Composer
• Axel Anderson — Producer
• Woody Allen — Writer
• Mickey Rose — Writer

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