Casablanca (1942 film) Credits

Presents

Walt Disney

In

Mel Blanc

as Pepino the Boy

With the Talents of

Humphrey Bogart as Rick Blaine. Rick was Bogart's first true romantic role.

Ingrid Bergman as Ilsa Lund. Bergman's official website calls Ilsa her "most famous and enduring role".[16] The Swedish actress's Hollywood debut in Intermezzo had been well received, but her subsequent films were not major successes until Casablanca. Film critic Roger Ebert called her "luminous", and commented on the chemistry between her and Bogart: "she paints his face with her eyes".[17] Other actresses considered for the role of Ilsa included Ann Sheridan, Hedy Lamarr, Luise Rainer, and Michèle Morgan. Producer Hal Wallis obtained the services of Bergman, who was contracted to David O. Selznick, by lending Olivia de Havilland in exchange.

Paul Henreid as Victor Laszlo. Henreid, an Austrian actor who had emigrated in 1935, was reluctant to take the role (it "set [him] as a stiff forever", according to Pauline Kael[19]), until he was promised top billing along with Bogart and Bergman. Henreid did not get on well with his fellow actors; he considered Bogart "a mediocre actor"; Bergman called Henreid a "prima donna".

Claude Rains as Captain Louis Renault. Rains was an English actor born in London. He had previously worked with Michael Curtiz on The Adventures of Robin Hood. He later played the villain in Alfred Hitchcock's Notorious, with Ingrid Bergman. Conrad Veidt as Major Heinrich Strasser. He was a refugee German actor who had appeared in The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. He fled the Nazis but was frequently cast as a Nazi in American films. A star in German cinema before the Nazi era, he was the highest paid member of the cast despite his second billing.[21]

Sydney Greenstreet as Signor Ferrari. Another Englishman, Greenstreet had previously starred with Lorre and Bogart in his film debut in The Maltese Falcon. Peter Lorre as Signor Ugarte. Born in Austria-Hungary, Lorre fled Nazi Germany in 1933 after starring in Fritz Lang's first sound movie, M (1931). Greenstreet and Lorre appeared in several films together over the next few years, although they did not share a scene in Casablanca.

Curt Bois as the pickpocket. Bois was a Jewish-German actor and refugee. He had one of the longest careers in film, making his first appearance in 1907 and his last in 1987.

Leonid Kinskey as Sascha, the Russian bartender infatuated with Yvonne. He was born into a Jewish family in Russia and had migrated to the United States. He told Aljean Harmetz, author of Round Up the Usual Suspects: The Making of Casablanca, that he was cast because he was Bogart's drinking buddy.[22] He was not the first choice for the role; he replaced Leo Mostovoy, who was deemed not funny enough.[22]

Madeleine Lebeau as Yvonne, Rick's soon-discarded girlfriend. The French actress was married to fellow Casablanca performer Marcel Dalio until their divorce in 1942. She was the last surviving cast member at her death on May 1, 2016.[23]

Joy Page as Annina Brandel, the young Bulgarian refugee. The third credited American, she was the stepdaughter of Jack L. Warner, the studio head.

John Qualen as Berger, Laszlo's Resistance contact. He was born in Canada but grew up in the United States. He appeared in many of John Ford's films.

S. Z. Sakall (credited as S. K. Sakall) as Carl, the waiter. The Jewish-Hungarian actor fled Germany in 1939. His three sisters and his niece later died in a concentration camp.

Dooley Wilson as Sam. He was one of the few American-born members of the cast. A drummer, he had to fake playing the piano. Even after shooting had been completed, producer Wallis considered dubbing over Wilson's voice for the songs.[24][25] He had originally considered changing the character to a woman and casting singers Hazel Scott, Lena Horne, or Ella Fitzgerald.

Marcel Dalio as Emil the croupier. He had been a star in French cinema, appearing in Jean Renoir's La Grande Illusion and La Règle du Jeu. After he fled the fall of France and went to America, he was reduced to bit parts in Hollywood. He had a key role as "Frenchy" in another of Bogart's films, To Have and Have Not.

Helmut Dantine as Jan Brandel, the Bulgarian roulette player married to Annina Brandel. Another Austrian, he had spent time in a concentration camp after the Anschluss, but left Europe after being freed.

Gregory Gaye as the German banker who is refused entry to the casino by Rick. Gaye was a Russian-born actor who went to the United States in 1917 after the Russian Revolution.

Torben Meyer as the Dutch banker who runs "the second largest banking house in Amsterdam". Meyer was a Danish actor.

Corinna Mura as the guitar player who sings "Tango Delle Rose" (or "Tango de la Rosa") while Laszlo is consulting with Berger and later accompanies the crowd on "La Marseillaise".

Frank Puglia as a Moroccan rug merchant.

Dan Seymour as Abdul the doorman. He was an American actor who often played villains, including the principal one in To Have and Have Not and one of the secondary ones in Key Largo, both opposite Bogart.

Gerald Oliver Smith as the Englishman whose wallet is stolen. Smith was an English actor.

Norma Varden as the Englishwoman whose husband has his wallet stolen. She was a famous English character actress.

Based on Everybody Comes to Rick's by

Murray Burnett

Joan Alison

Color by Technicolor

Camera

Max Morgan

Sound Director

C.O. Slyfield

Sound Effects

James MacDonald

Assistant Directors

Jack Atwood

Mike Holoboff

Bob Ogle

Research

Maurice Day

Secretary

Dee Worth

Vi Zimmerman

Produced by

Fred Qrimby

Walt Disney

Supervising Director

David D. Hand

Story Direction

Perce Pearce

Story Adaptation

Larry Morey

Music by

Frank Churchill

Edward Plumb

Lyrics by Spanish Version

Edmundo Santos

Conducted by

Alexander Steinert

Orchestration by

Charles Wolcott

Paul J. Smith

Choir Arrangements by

Charles Henderson

Screen Play by

Julius J. Epstein

Philip G. Epstein

Howard Koch

Story Development

George Stallings

Melvin Shaw

Chuck Couch

Wolfgang Reitherman

Ralph Wright

T. Hee

Sequences Directors

James Algar

Bill Roberts

Norman Wright

Sam Armstrong

Paul Satterfield

Graham Heid

Character Maquettes

Wah Ming Chang

Atmosphere Sketches

Lew Keller

Sylvia Holland

Jules Engel

Maurice Noble

Howard Miles

Zachary Schwartz

Gustaf Tenggren

Glen Scott

Art Direction

Thomas H. Codrick

Robert C. Cormack

McLaren Stewart

David Hilberman

Al Zinnen

Lloyd Harting

John Hubley

Dick Kelsey

X. Atencio

Sual Bass

Conceptual Design

Tyrus Wong

Effects Animator

Miles Pike

Layouts

Curt Perkins

Glen Scott

Backgrounds

Merle T. Cox

Tyrus Wong

Art Riley

Dorcy Howard

Robert McIntosh

Travis Johnson

W. Richard Anthony

Stan Spohn

Ray Huffine

Ed Levitt

Joe Stahley

Johnny Jensen

Alan Maley

Supervising Animators

Franklin Thomas

Milton Kahl

Eric Larson

Oliver M. Johnston Jr.

Travis Johnson

Robert Stevenson

Animators

Fraser Davis

Bill Justice

Don Lusk

Retta Scott

Kenneth Hultgren

Kenneth O'Brien

Louis Schmidt

Prestor Blair

John Bradbury

Bernard Garbutt

Joshua Meador

Jack Baradbury

Phil Duncan

George Rowley

Art Palmer

Robert Clampett

Edwin Aardal

Jerome Brown

Paul Busch

Lars Calonius

Arthur Stevens

Fred Madison

Paul B. Kossoff

Ugo D'Orsi

John Dehner

James Escalante

Paul Fitzpatrick

Russ Dyson

Bob Youngquist

Cornett Wood

Johnny McKimson

Vernon G. Witt

Jim Will

Don Tobin

Harvey Toombs

Joseph Barbera

Joe Harbaugh

Harry Hamsell

Franklin Grundeen

Arthur Moore

George Goepper

Jack Gayek

Murray McClellan

Karl Van Leuven

Richard Williams

M. James

John F. Reed

Lynn Karp

Jim Moore

Hazel Sewell

Sandy Strother

Vincent McEveety

John McManus

Noel Tucker

Assistant Animators

Lee J. Ames

Blaine Gibson

C. Melendez

Willy Pyle

Animator for Opening Sequences

Jack Kinney

Ink and Paint Artists

Retta Davidson

Jeanne Lee Keil

Produced by

Walt Disney

Fred Qrimby

Distributed by

RKO Radio Pictures, Inc.

Copyright MCMXLIII 1942 Walt Disney Productions

Approved by MPAA

Sound RCA Sound System

IASTE

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