The Defiant Ones (1958) Cast & Crew

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Directed by Stanley Kramer.

Cast

• Tony Curtis as John 'Joker' Jackson
• Sidney Poitier as Noah Cullen
• Theodore Bikel as Sheriff Max Muller
• Charles McGraw as Capt. Frank Gibbons
• Lon Chaney Jr. as Big Sam
• King Donovan as Solly
• Claude Akins as Mack
• Lawrence Dobkin as Editor
• Whit Bissell as Lou Gans
• Carl Switzer as Angus
• Kevin Coughlin as Billy
• Cara Williams as Billy's mother
• Ned Glass as Doctor
• Nedrick Young as Prison Guard

Crew

• Stanley Kramer — Director
• Stanley Kramer — Producer
• Ernest Gold — Original Music Composer
• Sam Leavitt — Director of Photography
• Nedrick Young — Writer
• Harold Jacob Smith — Writer

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