Secret Agent (1936) Cast & Crew

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Directed by Alfred Hitchcock.

Cast

• Madeleine Carroll as Elsa Carrington
• John Gielgud as Richard Ashenden / Edgar Brodie
• Peter Lorre as The General
• Robert Young as Robert Marvin
• Percy Marmont as Caypor
• Florence Kahn as Mrs. Caypor
• Charles Carson as "R"
• Lilli Palmer as Lilli
• Denys Blakelock as Man (uncredited)
• Sebastian Cabot as Man (uncredited)
• Tom Helmore as Colonel Anderson (uncredited)
• Andreas Malandrinos as Manager (uncredited)
• Howard Marion-Crawford as Karl (uncredited)
• Rène Ray as Maid (uncredited)
• Michael Redgrave as Army Officer (uncredited)
• Michael Rennie as Army Captain (uncredited)
• Michel Saint-Denis as Coachman (uncredited)

Crew

• W. Somerset Maugham — Novel
• Alfred Hitchcock — Director
• Bernard Knowles — Director of Photography
• Michael Balcon — Producer
• Ivor Montagu — Producer
• Charles Bennett — Screenplay
• Jesse Lasky Jr. — Writer
• Ian Hay — Writer

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