Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982) Cast & Crew

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Directed by Carl Reiner.

Cast

• Steve Martin as Rigby Reardon
• Rachel Ward as Juliet Forrest
• Alan Ladd as (in "This Gun For Hire") (archive footage)
• Carl Reiner as Juliet's Butler / Field Marshal Wilfried von Kluck
• Barbara Stanwyck as (in "Sorry - Wrong Number") (archive footage)
• Ray Milland as (in "The Lost Weekend") (archive footage)
• Ava Gardner as (in "The Killers" / "The Bribe") (archive footage)
• Burt Lancaster as (in "The Killers") (archive footage)
• Humphrey Bogart as (in "The Big Sleep" / "In a Lonely Place" / "Dark Passage") (archive footage)
• Cary Grant as (in "Suspicion") (archive footage)
• Ingrid Bergman as (in "Notorious") (archive footage)
• Veronica Lake as (in "The Glass Key") (archive footage)
• Bette Davis as (in "Deception") (archive footage)
• Lana Turner as (in "Johnny Eager" / "The Postman Always Rings Twice") (archive footage)
• Edward Arnold as (in "Johnny Eager") (archive footage)
• Kirk Douglas as (in "I Walk Alone") (archive footage)
• Fred MacMurray as (in "Double Indemnity") (archive footage)
• James Cagney as (in "White Heat") (archive footage)
• Joan Crawford as (in "Humoresque") (archive footage)
• Reni Santoni as Carlos Rodriguez
• Charles Laughton as (in "The Bribe") (archive footage)
• Vincent Price as (in "The Bribe") (archive footage)
• George Gaynes as Dr. Forrest
• Francis X. McCarthy as Waiter
• Gene LeBell as Hood
• William Conrad as (in "The Killers") (archive footage)
• Charles McGraw as (in "The Killers") (archive footage)
• Jeff Corey as (in "The Killers") (archive footage)
• John Miljan as (in "The Killers") (archive footage)
• Brian Donlevy as (in "The Glass Key") (archive footage)
• Norma Varden as (in "The Glass Key") (archive footage)
• Edmond O'Brien as (in "White Heat") (archive footage)
• Britt Nilsson as Puppy Secretary
• Jean Beaudine as Duty Secretary

Crew

• Carl Reiner — Director
• George Gipe — Screenplay
• William E. McEuen — Producer
• David V. Picker — Producer
• Michael Chapman — Director of Photography
• Steve Martin — Screenplay
• Carl Reiner — Screenplay
• Miklós Rózsa — Original Music Composer

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