Operation Crossbow (1965) Cast & Crew

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Directed by Michael Anderson.

Cast

• Sophia Loren as Nora Van Ostamgen
• George Peppard as Lt. John Curtis
• Trevor Howard as Professor Lindemann
• John Mills as General Boyd
• Richard Johnson as Duncan Sandys
• Tom Courtenay as Robert Henshaw
• Jeremy Kemp as Captain Phil Bradley
• Anthony Quayle as Bamford
• Lilli Palmer as Frieda
• Paul Henreid as General Ziemann
• Helmut Dantine as General Linz
• Barbara Rütting as Hannah Reitsch
• Richard Todd as Wing Cmdr. Kendall
• Sylvia Syms as Constance Babington Smith
• John Fraser as Flight Lt. Kenny
• Maurice Denham as RAF Officer
• Patrick Wymark as Prime Minister Winston Churchill
• Wolf Frees as German Police Inspector
• Moray Watson as Col. Kenneth Post
• Richard Wattis as Sir Charles Sims
• Allan Cuthbertson as German Technical Examiner
• Karl Stepanek as Prof. Hoffer
• William Mervyn as Dutch Technical Examiner
• Milo Sperber as German Hotel Porter
• George Mikell as German Officer
• Ferdy Mayne as German Officer
• Robert Brown as Air Commodore
• Anton Diffring as SS Sturmbannfuhrer
• Philip Madoc as German Police Officer
• John Abineri as German Policeman
• Charles Lloyd Pack as Technical Examiner
• Gertan Klauber as Soldier at Rocket Plant
• Jeremy Spenser as SS Officer at Rocket Plant
• John Ronane as RAF Dakota Pilot
• James Payne as Lorry Driver in Airfield

Crew

• Ray Rigby — Screenplay
• Derry Quinn — Screenplay
• Michael Anderson — Director
• Emeric Pressburger — Screenplay
• Erwin Hillier — Director of Photography
• Carlo Ponti — Producer
• Ron Goodwin — Original Music Composer

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