The Prisoner of Shark Island (1936) Cast & Crew

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Directed by John Ford.

Cast

• Warner Baxter as Dr. Samuel Alexander Mudd
• Gloria Stuart as Mrs. Peggy Mudd
• Claude Gillingwater as Colonel Dyer
• Arthur Byron as Mr. Erickson
• O. P. Heggie as Dr. Mac Intyre
• Harry Carey as Commandant
• Francis Ford as Corporal O'Toole
• John McGuire as Lieutenant Lovett
• Francis McDonald as John Wilkes Booth
• Douglas Wood as General Ewing
• John Carradine as Sergeant Rankin
• Joyce Kay as Martha Mudd
• Fred Kohler Jr. as Sergeant Cooper
• Ernest Whitman as Buck
• Paul Fix as David Herold
• Frank Shannon as Mr. Holt
• Frank McGlynn Sr. as Abraham Lincoln
• Leila McIntyre as Mrs. Abraham Lincoln
• Etta McDaniel as Aunt Rosabelle
• J.M. Kerrigan as Judge Maiben
• Arthur Loft as Carpet Bagger
• Paul McVey as General Hunter
• Maurice Murphy as Orderly
• Matthew Beard as Boy at Dr. Mudd's Door (uncredited)
• Frank Baker as Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
• Stanley Blystone as Boy Seeking Dr. Mudd (uncredited)
• Stanley Bordagaray as Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
• Whitney Bourne as Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
• Lester Dorr as George A. Atzerodt (uncredited)
• Robert Dudley as Druggist at Trial (uncredited)
• Jan Duggan as Actress at Ford's Theatre (uncredited)
• Earl Eby as Usher (uncredited)
• Dick Elliott as Actor at Ford's Theatre (uncredited)
• Bess Flowers as Woman Sitting Behind Lincoln in Theatre Box (uncredited)
• Bud Geary as Sergeant (uncredited)
• Melvin J. Gibby as Lewis Payne (uncredited)
• Charles Haefeli as Prisoner (uncredited)
• Robert Homans as Sergeant (uncredited)
• John Lester Johnson as Black Soldier at Prison (uncredited)
• Beulah Hall Jones as Blanche (uncredited)

Crew

• John Ford — Director
• Nunnally Johnson — Screenplay
• Darryl F. Zanuck — Producer
• Bert Glennon — Director of Photography
• R. H. Bassett — Original Music Composer
• Hugo Friedhofer — Original Music Composer

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