The Front Page (1974) Cast & Crew

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Directed by Billy Wilder.

Cast

• Jack Lemmon as Hildebrand Johnson
• Walter Matthau as Walter Burns
• Susan Sarandon as Peggy Grant
• Vincent Gardenia as Sheriff
• David Wayne as Roy Bensinger
• Allen Garfield as Kruger
• Austin Pendleton as Earl Williams
• Charles Durning as Murphy
• Herb Edelman as Schwartz
• Martin Gabel as Dr. Max J. Eggelhofer
• Harold Gould as Mayor
• Cliff Osmond as Officer Jacobi
• Dick O'Neill as McHugh
• Jon Korkes as Rudy Keppler
• Carol Burnett as Mollie Malloy
• Paul Benedict as Plunkett
• Allen Jenkins as Telegrapher
• Barbara Davis as Myrtle
• Biff Elliot as Police Dispatcher
• Lou Frizzell as Endicott
• Doro Merande as Jennie
• Noam Pitlik as Wilson
• Joshua Shelley as Cab Driver
• John Furlong as Duffy
• Leonard Bremen as Butch

Crew

• Billy Wilder — Director
• Billy Wilder — Screenplay
• I. A. L. Diamond — Screenplay
• Paul Monash — Producer
• Jordan Cronenweth — Director of Photography

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