Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956) Cast & Crew

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Directed by Robert Wise.

Cast

• Paul Newman as Rocky Graziano
• Pier Angeli as Norma Graziano
• Everett Sloane as Irving Cohen
• Eileen Heckart as Ma Barbella
• Sal Mineo as Romolo
• Harold J. Stone as Nick Barbella
• Joseph Buloff as Benny
• Arch Johnson as Heldon
• Sammy White as Whitey Bimstein
• Robert P. Lieb as D. A. Hogan
• Theodore Newton as Edward Eagan
• Steve McQueen as Fidel (uncredited)
• Stanley Adams as Romolo's Attorney (uncredited)
• Fred Aldrich as Ringside Photographer (uncredited)
• Leon Alton as Fight Spectator (uncredited)
• William Boyett as Military Policeman (uncredited)
• Bart Braverman as Boy (uncredited)
• John Breen as Hearing Specatator (uncredited)
• Frank Campanella as Detective (uncredited)
• Walter Cartier as Polack (uncredited)
• Angela Cartwright as Audrey at Age 3 (uncredited)
• George Cisar as Fence (uncredited)
• Russ Clark as Zale Fight Referee (uncredited)
• Tom Coleman as Reporter at Sparring Session (uncredited)
• Russ Conway as Captain Grifton (uncredited)
• Gene Coogan as Bookie (uncredited)
• Clancy Cooper as Captain Lancheck (uncredited)
• Matt Crowley as Lou Stillman (uncredited)
• Michael Dante as Shorty (uncredited)
• Ray Danton as Reporter (voice) (uncredited)
• Jimmy Dime as Training Spectator (uncredited)
• Robert Easton as Corporal Quinbury (uncredited)
• John Eldredge as George Niles (uncredited)
• Joe Garcio as Radio Listener (uncredited)
• Robert Gardett as Reporter (uncredited)
• Tommy Garland as Referee (uncredited)
• Sam Gilman as Detective Arresting Rocky (uncredited)
• James Gonzalez as Trial Spectator (uncredited)
• Herschel Graham as Fight Spectator (uncredited)
• Donna Jo Gribble as Yolanda Barbella (uncredited)

Crew

• Robert Wise — Director
• Ernest Lehman — Screenplay
• Rocky Graziano — Novel
• Rowland Barber — Novel
• Charles Schnee — Producer
• Bronislau Kaper — Original Music Composer
• Joseph Ruttenberg — Director of Photography

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