The Nun's Story (1959) Cast & Crew

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Directed by Fred Zinnemann.

Cast

• Audrey Hepburn as Sister Luke
• Peter Finch as Dr. Fortunati
• Edith Evans as Rev. Mother Emmanuel
• Peggy Ashcroft as Mother Mathilde
• Dean Jagger as Dr. Hubert Van Der Mal
• Mildred Dunnock as Sister Margharita
• Beatrice Straight as Mother Christophe
• Patricia Collinge as Sister William
• Rosalie Crutchley as Sister Eleanor
• Ruth White as Mother Marcella
• Barbara O'Neil as Mother Didyma
• Margaret Phillips as Sister Pauline
• Patricia Bosworth as Simone
• Colleen Dewhurst as Dangerous Hospital Patient
• Stephen Murray as Chaplain
• Lionel Jeffries as Dr. Goovaerts
• Niall MacGinnis as Father Vermeuhlen
• Eva Kotthaus as Sister Marie
• Molly Urquhart as Sister Augustine
• Dorothy Alison as Sister Aurelie
• Jeanette Sterke as Louise
• Errol John as Illunga
• Diana Lambert as Lisa
• Orlando Martins as Kalulu
• Penelope Horner as Jeanette Milonet (uncredited)
• Charles Lamb as Pascin (uncredited)
• Ave Ninchi as Sister Bernard (uncredited)
• Richard O'Sullivan as Pierre (uncredited)
• Frank Singuineau as Murderer of Sister Aurelie (uncredited)
• Elsa Albani as (uncredited)
• Gabriella Andreini as (uncredited)
• Juan Aymerich as (uncredited)
• Grazia De Rossi as (uncredited)
• Giovanna Galletti as (uncredited)

Crew

• Fred Zinnemann — Director
• Kathryn C. Hulme — Novel
• Robert Anderson — Screenplay
• Franz Planer — Director of Photography
• Henry Blanke — Producer
• Franz Waxman — Original Music Composer
• Fred Zinnemann — Producer

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