
The Great Dictator
Een joodse barbier, die terugkeert van de oorlog van '14-'18, lijdt aan geheugenverlies. Nadat hij jaren in het ziekenhuis heeft doorgebracht, vindt hij zijn zaak weer in het getto. Maar het land lijdt nu onder het schrikbewind van de dictator Adenoid Hynkel, die als twee druppels water op de arme barbier lijkt.
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Cast

Rudolph Anders
Tomanian Commandant at Osterlich / Robert O. Davis

Wheeler Dryden
Heinrich Schtick / Translator (voice)

Maurice Moscovitch
Mr. Jaeckel

Don Brodie
Reporter from International Press (uncredited)

Gino Corrado
Sculptor (uncredited)

Pat Flaherty
Friendly Storm Trooper (uncredited)

Bud Geary
Storm Trooper (uncredited)

William Irving
Man Seated on Bed (uncredited)

Jack Oakie
Benzino Napaloni, Dictator of Bacteria

Charles Sullivan
Prison Guard (uncredited)

Chester Conklin
Barber's Customer

Eddie Dunn
Whitewashed Storm Trooper

Nellie V. Nichols
Jewish Woman (uncredited)

Cyril Ring
Officer Extra (uncredited)

Hans Schumm
Soldier (uncredited)

Leo White
Hynkel's Barber (uncredited)

Henry Daniell
Garbitsch

Florence Wright
Blonde Secretary

Reginald Gardiner
Commander Schultz

Carter DeHaven
Spook

Emma Dunn
Mrs. Jaeckel

Sig Arno
Compact Parachute Inventor (uncredited)

John Davidson
Hospital Superintendent (uncredited)

Max Davidson
Jewish Man (uncredited)

Ethelreda Leopold
Blonde Secretary (uncredited)

George Lynn
Commander of Storm Troopers

Torben Meyer
Bald Barbershop Customer (uncredited)

Harry Semels
Jewish Fruit Stand Proprietor (uncredited)

Harry Wilson
Soldier in Field (uncredited)

Tiny Sandford
Soldier in 1918 Tomainia (uncredited)

Lucien Prival
Storm Trooper Officer (uncredited)

Paulette Goddard
Hannah

Bernard Gorcey
Mr. Mann

Fred Aldrich
Soldier (uncredited)

Leyland Hodgson
Big Bertha Gunnery Officer (uncredited)

Richard Alexander
Tomainian Prison Guard in 1918 (uncredited)

Manuel París
Dance Extra at Ball (uncredited)

Val Stanton
Professor Herr Kibitzen (uncredited)

Charlie Chaplin
Adenoid Hynkel, Dictator of Tomania / A Jewish Barber

Billy Gilbert
Field Marshal Herring

Paul Weigel
Mr. Agar

Bert Moorhouse
Hynkel's Staff Officer (uncredited)

Grace Hayle
Madame Napaloni

Eddie Gribbon
Tomanian Storm Trooper

Jack Perrin
Jewish Man (uncredited)

Hans Conried
Undetermined Role (uncredited)

Hank Mann
Storm Trooper Stealing Fruit