Torrential

Zelig

You wanted more when it was all over!

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.

Comedy

Woody Allen

(Leonard Zelig)

Mia Farrow

(Dr. Eudora Nesbitt Fletcher)

Patrick Horgan

(The Narrator (voice))

John Buckwalter

(Dr. Sindell)

Marvin Chatinover

(Glandular Diagnosis Doctor)

Stanley Swerdlow

(Mexican Food Doctor)

Paul Nevens

(Dr. Birsky)

Howard Erskine

(Hypodermic Doctor)

Richard Whiting

(Other Doctor)

Ralph Bell

(Other Doctor)

Will Hussung

(Other Doctor)

Gale Hansen

(Freshman #1)

Michael Jeter

(Freshman #2)

Peter McRobbie

(Workers Rally Speaker)

Richard Litt

(Charles Koslow)

Mary Louise Wilson

(Sister Ruth)

Alice Beardsley

(Telephone Operator)

Paula Trueman

(Woman on Telephone)

Garrett M. Brown

(Actor Zelig)

Marianne Tatum

(Actress Fletcher)

Charles Denny

(Actor Doctor)

Michael Kell

(Actor Koslow)

John Rothman

(Paul Deghuee)

Deborah Rush

(Lita Fox)

Stanley Simmonds

(Lita's Lawyer)

Robert Berger

(Zelig's Lawyer)

Jeanine Jackson

(Helen Gray)

John Doumanian

(Greek Waiter)

Willy Holt

(Rally Chancellor)

Susan Sontag

(Susan Sontag - Contemporary Interviews)

Saul Bellow

(Saul Bellow - Contemporary Interviews)

Irving Howe

(Irving Howe - Contemporary Interviews)

Marshall Cole Sr.

(Calvin Turner - Contemporary Interviews)

Ellen Garrison

(Older Dr. Fletcher - Contemporary Interviews)

Jack Cannon

(Mike Geibell - Contemporary Interviews)

Theodore R. Smits

(Ted Bierbauer - Contemporary Interviews)

Sherman Loud

(Older Paul Deghuee - Contemporary Interviews)

Elizabeth Rothschild

(Older Sister Meryl Fletcher - Contemporary Interviews)

Kuno Sponholz

(Oswald Pohl - Contemporary Interviews)

Ed Herlihy

(Pathe News Announcer (voice))

Dwight Weist

(Hearst Metrotone Announcer (voice))

George Hamlin

(Experimental Drugs Doctor)

Robert Iglesia

(Man in Barber Chair)

Eli Resnick

(Man in Park)

Edward McPhillips

(Scotsman)

Sol Lomita

(Martin Geist)

Ed Lane

(Man on Telephone)

Sharon Ferrol-Young

(Miss Baker)

Dimitri Vassilopoulos

(Martinez)

Stephanie Farrow

(Sister Meryl)

Francis Beggins

(City Hall Speaker)

Jean Trowbridge

(Dr. Fletcher's Mother)

Ken Chapin

(On-Camera Interviewer)

Gerald Klein

(Hearst Guest)

Vincent Jerman-Jerosa

(Hearst Guest)

Erma Campbell

(Zelig's Wife)

Anton Marco

(Wrist Victim)

Louise Deitch

(House-Painting Victim)

Bernice Dowis

(Vilification Woman)

Bernie Herold

(Carter Dean)

Elizabeth Kaitan

(German Girl (uncredited))

Arthur Anderson

(Other Doctor (uncredited))

Bubba Dean Rambo

(Charleston Dancer (uncredited))

Kim Johnston Ulrich

(Beauty Contestant (uncredited))

William Haines

(Self (archive footage))

Dorothy Mackaill

(Self (archive footage))

Josephine Baker

(Self (archive footage) (uncredited))

Michael Blevins

(Lizard Dancer (uncredited))

Fanny Brice

(Self (archive footage) (uncredited))

Wilhelm Brückner

(Self - Walking Behind Hitler (archive footage) (uncredited))

James Cagney

(Self (archive footage) (uncredited))

Al Capone

(Self (archive footage) (uncredited))

Charlie Chaplin

(Self (archive footage) (uncredited))

Calvin Coolidge

(Self - Pinning Medal (archive footage) (uncredited))

Marion Davies

(Self (archive footage) (uncredited))

Dolores del Río

(Self (archive footage) (uncredited))

Sepp Dietrich

(Self - with Hitler and Streicher (archive footage) (uncredited))

Joe DiMaggio

(Self - Playing Baseball (archive footage) (uncredited))

Marie Dressler

(Self (archive footage) (uncredited))

F. Scott Fitzgerald

(Self (archive footage) (uncredited))

Lou Gehrig

(Self (archive footage) (uncredited))

Joseph Goebbels

(Self (archive footage) (uncredited))

Harold 'Red' Grange

(Self (archive footage) (uncredited))

Hermann Göring

(Self (archive footage) (uncredited))

Jon Hayden

(Reporter (uncredited))

William Randolph Hearst

(Self (archive footage) (uncredited))

Rudolf Heß

(Self (archive footage) (uncredited))

Adolf Hitler

(Self (archive footage) (uncredited))

Bobby Jones

(Self (archive footage) (uncredited))

Robert Ley

(Self - with Goebbels (archive footage) (uncredited))

Charles A. Lindbergh

(Self (archive footage) (uncredited))

Carole Lombard

(Self (archive footage) (uncredited))

Adolphe Menjou

(Self (archive footage) (uncredited))

Tom Mix

(Self - At San Simeon (archive footage) (uncredited))

Franz Pfeffer von Salomon

(Self with Hitler and Streicher (archive footage) (uncredited))

Mae Questel

(Helen Kane (voice) (uncredited))

Billy Rose

(Self (archive footage) (uncredited))

Babe Ruth

(Self - Swinging Bat (archive footage) (uncredited))

Julius Schaub

(Self - Walking Behind Hitler (archive footage) (uncredited))

Gregor Strasser

(Self - With Back to Hitler (archive footage) (uncredited))

Julius Streicher

(Self - With Hitler and Hess (archive footage) (uncredited))

Franz von Epp

(Self - With Goebbels and Ley (archive footage) (uncredited))

Jimmy Walker

(Self - Mayor of New York (archive footage) (uncredited))

Ruth Leon Weiman

(Mother of a Graduate (uncredited))

Tug Wilson

(Police Officer (uncredited))

Claire Windsor

(Self (archive footage) (uncredited))