The Man in the White Suit (1951) Cast & Crew

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Directed by Alexander Mackendrick.

Cast

• Alec Guinness as Sidney Stratton
• Joan Greenwood as Daphne Birnley
• Cecil Parker as Alan Birnley
• Michael Gough as Michael Corland
• Ernest Thesiger as Sir John Kierlaw
• Vida Hope as Bertha
• Howard Marion-Crawford as Cranford
• Miles Malleson as The Tailor
• Henry Mollison as Hoskins
• Patric Doonan as Frank
• Duncan Lamont as Harry
• Harold Goodwin as Wilkins
• Colin Gordon as Hill
• Joan Harben as Miss Johnson
• Arthur Howard as Roberts
• Roddy Hughes as Green
• Stuart Latham as Harrison
• Edie Martin as Mrs. Watson
• Mandy Miller as Gladdie
• Charlotte Mitchell as Mill Girl
• Olaf Olsen as Knudsen
• Desmond Roberts as Mannering
• Ewan Roberts as Fotheringay
• John Rudling as Wilson
• Charles Saynor as Pete
• Russell Waters as Davidson
• Brian Worth as King
• George Benson as The Lodger
• Frank Atkinson as The Baker
• Charles Cullum as 1st Company Director
• F.B.J. Sharp as 2nd Company Director
• Scott Harrold as Express Reporter
• Jack Howarth as Receptionist at Corland Mill
• Jack McNaughton as Taxi Driver
• Judith Furse as Nurse Gamage
• Billy Russell as Nightwatchman
• Andy Alston as Mill Worker (uncredited)
• Jack Arrow as Mill Worker (uncredited)
• David Boyd as Office Boy (uncredited)
• Jim Brady as Mill Worker (uncredited)

Crew

• Roger MacDougall — Screenplay
• Douglas Slocombe — Director of Photography
• Alexander Mackendrick — Director
• Michael Balcon — Producer
• Benjamin Frankel — Original Music Composer
• Alexander Mackendrick — Screenplay
• John Dighton — Screenplay

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