The Exorcist (1973) Cast & Crew

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Directed by William Friedkin.

Cast

• Ellen Burstyn as Chris MacNeil
• Linda Blair as Regan MacNeil
• Jason Miller as Father Damien Karras
• Max von Sydow as Father Lankester Merrin
• Lee J. Cobb as Lt. Bill Kinderman
• William O'Malley as Father Joseph Kevin Dyer
• Kitty Winn as Sharon Spencer
• Barton Heyman as Dr. Klein
• Peter Masterson as Dr. Barringer
• Jack MacGowran as Burke Dennings
• Rudolf Schündler as Karl
• Gina Petrushka as Willi
• Robert Symonds as Dr. Taney
• Arthur Storch as Psychiatrist
• Thomas Bermingham as Tom
• Vasiliki Maliaros as Mary Karras
• Titos Vandis as Uncle John
• John Mahon as Language Lab Director
• Wallace Rooney as Bishop Michael
• Ron Faber as Chuck / Demon (voice)
• Donna Mitchell as Mary Jo Perrin
• Roy Cooper as Jesuit Dean
• Robert Gerringer as Senator at Party
• Mercedes McCambridge as Demon (voice)
• Paul Bateson as Radiologist's Assistant (uncredited)
• Elinore Blair as Nurse (uncredited)
• William Peter Blatty as The Producer (uncredited)
• Mary Boylan as First Mental Patient (uncredited)
• Dick Callinan as Astronaut (uncredited)
• Mason Curry as Doctor (voice) (uncredited)
• Toni Darnay as Violent psychotic patient (uncredited)
• Eileen Dietz as Demon / Regan Double (uncredited)
• Joanne Dusseau as Senator's Wife (uncredited)
• Bernard Eismann as Minor Role (uncredited)
• Beatrice Hunter as Minor Role (uncredited)
• Yvonne Jones as Bellevue Nurse (uncredited)
• Don LaBonte as Minor Role (uncredited)
• Barton Lane as Angiography Doctor (uncredited)
• Ann Miles as Spiderwalk (uncredited)
• John Nicola as Priest (uncredited)

Crew

• William Peter Blatty — Producer
• William Friedkin — Director
• William Peter Blatty — Novel
• William Peter Blatty — Screenplay
• Owen Roizman — Director of Photography
• Jack Nitzsche — Original Music Composer

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