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Zelig

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Calorie Rating: 111
Released: 1983-07-15
MPAA Rating: PG
Running Time: 79 Minutes
Revenue 11798616
Studios: Orion Pictures, Warner Bros. Pictures,


Fictional documentary about the life of human chameleon Leonard Zelig, a man who becomes a celebrity in the 1920s due to his ability to look and act like whoever is around him. Clever editing places Zelig in real newsreel footage of Woodrow Wilson, Babe Ruth, and others.

Director / Directors

Woody Allen
Director
Kay Chapin
Script Supervisor
Frederic B. Blankfein
First Assistant Director

Tony Gittelson
Second Assistant Director
Duncan Scott
Additional Second Assistant Director
Jim Chory
Additional Second Assistant Director

Thomas A. Reilly
Assistant Director


Cast

Woody Allen
Character: Leonard Zelig
Mia Farrow
Character: Dr. Eudora Nesbitt Fletcher
Patrick Horgan
Character: The Narrator (voice)

John Buckwalter
Character: Dr. Sindell
Marvin Chatinover
Character: Glandular Diagnosis Doctor
Stanley Swerdlow
Character: Mexican Food Doctor

Paul Nevens
Character: Dr. Birsky
Howard Erskine
Character: Hypodermic Doctor
Richard Whiting
Character: Other Doctor

Ralph Bell
Character: Other Doctor
Will Hussung
Character: Other Doctor
Gale Hansen
Character: Freshman #1

Michael Jeter
Character: Freshman #2
Peter McRobbie
Character: Workers Rally Speaker
Richard Litt
Character: Charles Koslow

Mary Louise Wilson
Character: Sister Ruth
Alice Beardsley
Character: Telephone Operator
Paula Trueman
Character: Woman on Telephone

Garrett M. Brown
Character: Actor Zelig
Marianne Tatum
Character: Actress Fletcher
Charles Denny
Character: Actor Doctor

Michael Kell
Character: Actor Koslow
John Rothman
Character: Paul Deghuee
Deborah Rush
Character: Lita Fox

Stanley Simmonds
Character: Lita's Lawyer
Robert Berger
Character: Zelig's Lawyer
Jeanine Jackson
Character: Helen Gray

John Doumanian
Character: Greek Waiter
Willy Holt
Character: Rally Chancellor
Susan Sontag
Character: Susan Sontag - Contemporary Interviews

Saul Bellow
Character: Saul Bellow - Contemporary Interviews
Irving Howe
Character: Irving Howe - Contemporary Interviews
Marshall Cole Sr.
Character: Calvin Turner - Contemporary Interviews

Ellen Garrison
Character: Older Dr. Fletcher - Contemporary Interviews
Jack Cannon
Character: Mike Geibell - Contemporary Interviews
Theodore R. Smits
Character: Ted Bierbauer - Contemporary Interviews

Sherman Loud
Character: Older Paul Deghuee - Contemporary Interviews
Elizabeth Rothschild
Character: Older Sister Meryl Fletcher - Contemporary Interviews
Kuno Sponholz
Character: Oswald Pohl - Contemporary Interviews

Ed Herlihy
Character: Pathe News Announcer (voice)
Dwight Weist
Character: Hearst Metrotone Announcer (voice)
George Hamlin
Character: Experimental Drugs Doctor

Robert Iglesia
Character: Man in Barber Chair
Eli Resnick
Character: Man in Park
Edward McPhillips
Character: Scotsman

Sol Lomita
Character: Martin Geist
Ed Lane
Character: Man on Telephone
Sharon Ferrol-Young
Character: Miss Baker

Dimitri Vassilopoulos
Character: Martinez
Stephanie Farrow
Character: Sister Meryl
Francis Beggins
Character: City Hall Speaker

Jean Trowbridge
Character: Dr. Fletcher's Mother
Ken Chapin
Character: On-Camera Interviewer
Gerald Klein
Character: Hearst Guest

Vincent Jerman-Jerosa
Character: Hearst Guest
Erma Campbell
Character: Zelig's Wife
Anton Marco
Character: Wrist Victim

Louise Deitch
Character: House-Painting Victim
Bernice Dowis
Character: Vilification Woman
Bernie Herold
Character: Carter Dean

Elizabeth Kaitan
Character: German Girl (uncredited)
Arthur Anderson
Character: Other Doctor (uncredited)
Bubba Dean Rambo
Character: Charleston Dancer (uncredited)

Kim Johnston Ulrich
Character: Beauty Contestant (uncredited)
William Haines
Character: Self (archive footage)
Dorothy Mackaill
Character: Self (archive footage)

Josephine Baker
Character: Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Michael Blevins
Character: Lizard Dancer (uncredited)
Fanny Brice
Character: Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Wilhelm Brückner
Character: Self - Walking Behind Hitler (archive footage) (uncredited)
James Cagney
Character: Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Al Capone
Character: Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Charlie Chaplin
Character: Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Calvin Coolidge
Character: Self - Pinning Medal (archive footage) (uncredited)
Marion Davies
Character: Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Dolores del Río
Character: Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Sepp Dietrich
Character: Self - with Hitler and Streicher (archive footage) (uncredited)
Joe DiMaggio
Character: Self - Playing Baseball (archive footage) (uncredited)

Marie Dressler
Character: Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Character: Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Lou Gehrig
Character: Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Joseph Goebbels
Character: Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Harold 'Red' Grange
Character: Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Hermann Göring
Character: Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Jon Hayden
Character: Reporter (uncredited)
William Randolph Hearst
Character: Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Rudolf Heß
Character: Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Adolf Hitler
Character: Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Bobby Jones
Character: Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Robert Ley
Character: Self - with Goebbels (archive footage) (uncredited)

Charles A. Lindbergh
Character: Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Carole Lombard
Character: Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Adolphe Menjou
Character: Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Tom Mix
Character: Self - At San Simeon (archive footage) (uncredited)
Franz Pfeffer von Salomon
Character: Self with Hitler and Streicher (archive footage) (uncredited)
Mae Questel
Character: Helen Kane (voice) (uncredited)

Billy Rose
Character: Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Babe Ruth
Character: Self - Swinging Bat (archive footage) (uncredited)
Julius Schaub
Character: Self - Walking Behind Hitler (archive footage) (uncredited)

Gregor Strasser
Character: Self - With Back to Hitler (archive footage) (uncredited)
Julius Streicher
Character: Self - With Hitler and Hess (archive footage) (uncredited)
Franz von Epp
Character: Self - With Goebbels and Ley (archive footage) (uncredited)

Jimmy Walker
Character: Self - Mayor of New York (archive footage) (uncredited)
Ruth Leon Weiman
Character: Mother of a Graduate (uncredited)
Tug Wilson
Character: Police Officer (uncredited)

Claire Windsor
Character: Self (archive footage) (uncredited)


Production and Crew

Dick Hyman
Original Music Composer
Gordon Willis
Director of Photography
Jack Rollins
Executive Producer

Charles H. Joffe
Executive Producer

Michael Peyser
Associate Producer

Fern Buchner
Makeup Designer
Werner Sherer
Hairstylist
Leslie Bloom
Set Decoration

Romaine Greene
Hair Designer
Mel Bourne
Production Design
Speed Hopkins
Art Direction

Santo Loquasto
Costume Design
John Caglione Jr.
Makeup Artist
Michael Peyser
Production Manager

Dick Mingalone
Camera Operator
Timothy M. Bourne
Location Manager
Gail Sicilia
Unit Publicist

Rick Dior
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
James Sabat
Production Sound Mixer

Pamela Scott Arnold
Assistant Editor
David J. Schweitzer
Special Effects

Kerry Hayes
Still Photographer
Richard Nord
Assistant Editor

Louis Sabat
Boom Operator
Paula Herold
Casting Associate

James Fanning
Transportation Captain
Dan Sable
Supervising Sound Editor

Stuart Robertson
Visual Effects Supervisor
Helen Robin
Production Coordinator

Cosmo Sorice
Scenic Artist
James Mazzola
Property Master
Frank Graziadei
Sound Recordist

Ezra Swerdlow
Unit Manager
Marjorie Deutsch
Sound Editor
Janet Rosenbloom
Set Decoration

Joseph Badalucco Jr.
Lead Set Dresser
James Sorice
Key Scenic Artist
Douglas C. Hart
Assistant Camera

Bob Paone
Second Assistant Camera
Roy B. Yokelson
Sound Engineer
Danny Daniels
Choreographer

Robert Ward
Key Grip
Arne Olsen
Construction Grip
Robert Connors
Best Boy Electric

Tom McKinley
Costume Assistant
Richard Hornung
Costume Assistant
Lyn Carroll
Costume Assistant

Bill Christians
Wardrobe Supervisor
Lancey Saunders Clough
Wardrobe Supervisor
Joan Lopate
Art Department Coordinator

Todd M. Thaler
Assistant Production Coordinator
Carl Turnquest
Projection
Cheryl Hill
Location Scout

Carol Nast
Location Scout
Susan Rollins
Location Scout
Ken Rothstein
Location Scout

Lynn Sable
Apprentice Sound Editor
Janet Lund Robbins
Apprentice Sound Editor
Randall Coleman
Assistant Sound Editor

Gina Roose
Assistant Sound Editor
Fred Rosenberg
Assistant Sound Editor
Harry Peck Bolles
Assistant Sound Editor

Jeffrey Stern
Assistant Sound Editor
Debra Bard
Assistant Sound Editor
Suzanne Pillsbury
Assistant Sound Editor