Dead of Night (1945) Cast & Crew

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Directed by Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden, Robert Hamer.

Cast

• Mervyn Johns as Walter Craig (Segment "Linking Story")
• Roland Culver as Eliot Foley (Segment "Linking Story")
• Mary Merrall as Mrs. Foley (Segment "Linking Story")
• Googie Withers as Joan Cortland (Segment "Linking Story" & "The Haunted Mirror")
• Frederick Valk as Dr. Van Straaten (Segment "Linking Story" & "The Ventriloquist's Dummy")
• Anthony Baird as Hugh Grainger (Segment "Linking Story" & "The Hearse Conductor")
• Sally Ann Howes as Sally O'Hara (Segment "Linking Story" & "The Christmas Story")
• Robert Wyndham as Dr. Albury (Segment "The Christmas Story")
• Judy Kelly as Joyce Grainger (Segment "Linking Story" & "The Hearse Conductor")
• Miles Malleson as Hearse Driver (Segment "The Hearse Conductor")
• Michael Allan as Jimmy Watson (Segment "The Christmas Story")
• Barbara Leake as Mrs. O'Hara (Segment "Linking Story" & "The Christmas Story")
• Ralph Michael as Peter Cortland (Segment "The Haunted Mirror")
• Esme Percy as Antiques Dealer (Segment "The Haunted Mirror")
• Basil Radford as George Parratt (Segment "The Golfing Story")
• Naunton Wayne as Larry Potter (Segment "The Golfing Story")
• Peggy Bryan as Mary Lee (Segment "The Golfing Story")
• Allan Jeayes as Maurice Olcott (Segment "The Ventriloquist's Dummy")
• Michael Redgrave as Maxwell Frere (Segment "The Ventriloquist's Dummy")
• Elisabeth Welch as Beulah (Segment "The Ventriloquist's Dummy")
• Hartley Power as Sylvester Kee (Segment "The Ventriloquist's Dummy")
• Magda Kun as Mitzi (Magda Kun "The Ventriloquist's Dummy")
• Garry Marsh as Harry Parker (Segment "The Ventriloquist's Dummy")
• Renee Gadd as Mrs. Craig (Segment "Linking Story")
• John McGuire as Hugo Fitch (Segment "The Ventriloquist's Dummy") (Uncredited)
• Peter Jones as Fred, Barman (Segment "Golfing Story") (Uncredited)
• Paul Bonifas as French Nightclub Patron (Segment "The Ventriloquist's Dummy") (Uncredited)
• Patrick Aherne as Doctor at Psychiatric Hospital (Segment "The Ventriloquist's Dummy") (Uncredited)

Crew

• Alberto Cavalcanti — Director
• Charles Crichton — Director
• Basil Dearden — Director
• Robert Hamer — Director
• John Baines — Screenplay
• Angus MacPhail — Screenplay
• Michael Balcon — Producer
• Georges Auric — Original Music Composer
• Douglas Slocombe — Director of Photography
• T. E. B. Clarke — Writer
• Stanley Pavey — Director of Photography

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