The Third Man (1949) Cast & Crew

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Directed by Carol Reed.

Cast

• Joseph Cotten as Holly Martins
• Alida Valli as Anna Schmidt
• Trevor Howard as Major Calloway
• Orson Welles as Harry Lime
• Paul Hörbiger as Karl the Porter
• Ernst Deutsch as 'Baron' Kurtz
• Erich Ponto as Dr. Winkel
• Siegfried Breuer as Popescu
• Hedwig Bleibtreu as Anna's Landlady
• Bernard Lee as Sergeant Paine
• Wilfrid Hyde-White as Crabbin
• Alexis Chesnakov as Col. Brodsky the Russian Liaison Officer (uncredited)
• Thomas Gallagher as Taxi Driver (uncredited)
• Herbert Halbik as Hänsel the Little Boy with Ball (uncredited)
• Hannah Norbert as Actress at Josefstadt Theater (uncredited)
• Eric Pohlmann as Waiter at Smolka's (uncredited)
• Carol Reed as UK Version's Opening Narrator (uncredited)
• Annie Rosar as The Porter's Wife (uncredited)
• Frederick Schrecker as Hansel's Father (uncredited)
• Hugo Schuster as Waiter (uncredited)
• Karl Stepanek as Actor at Josefstadt Theater (uncredited)
• Theodore Gottlieb as Man on Street (uncredited)
• Jenny Werner as Dr. Winkel's Maid Hilde (uncredited)
• Reed De Rouen as American Military Policeman(uncredited)
• Geoffrey Keen as British Military Policeman (uncredited)
• Robert Brown as Britush Military Policeman in Sewer Chase (uncredited)
• Paul Carpenter as International Patrol D (uncredited)

Crew

• Carol Reed — Director
• Graham Greene — Screenplay
• Carol Reed — Producer
• Anton Karas — Original Music Composer
• Robert Krasker — Director of Photography

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