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1984

Crime
Drama

The Cotton Club

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Crew

Francis Ford Coppola

Director Screenplay

Jim Haskins

Writer

William Kennedy

Screenplay

Art Direction
- David Chapman
- Gregory Bolton
Boom Operator
- Nathan Boxer
Camera Operator
- Michael Stone
Carpenter
- Edward Swanson
Casting
- Gretchen Rennell
- Lois Planco
Continuity
- Lynn Lewis Lovett
Costume Design
- Milena Canonero
Director of Photography
- Stephen Goldblatt
Editor
- Barry Malkin
- Robert Q. Lovett
First Assistant Camera
- David Wagreich
First Assistant Director
- Robert V. Girolami
Key Hair Stylist
- Lyndell Quiyou
Key Makeup Artist
- Craig Lyman
Music Editor
- Norman Hollyn
Original Music Composer
- John Barry
Post Production Supervisor
- Kerry Orent
Producer
- Robert Evans
Production Design
- Richard Sylbert
Property Master
- Jimmy Raitt
Second Assistant Director
- Henry J. Bronchtein
- Louis D'Esposito
Second Unit Director of Photography
- Donald Sweeney
Set Decoration
- George Gaines
- Leslie Bloom
Sound Mixer
- Jack C. Jacobsen
Still Photographer
- Adger W. Cowans
Story
- Francis Ford Coppola
- Mario Puzo
- William Kennedy
Stunt Coordinator
- Victor Magnotta
Unit Production Manager
- Christopher Cronyn
- David Golden
- Margaret B. Hunnewell

Cast

Richard Gere

Richard 'Dixie' Dwyer

Gregory Hines

Delbert 'Sandman' Williams

Diane Lane

Vera Cicero

Lonette McKee

Lila Rose Oliver

Bob Hoskins

Owney Madden

James Remar

Dutch Schultz

Nicolas Cage

Vincent Dwyer

Allen Garfield

Otto 'Abbadabba' Berman

Fred Gwynne

Frenchy Demange

Gwen Verdon

Tish Dwyer

Lisa Jane Persky

Frances Flegenheimer

Maurice Hines

Clay Williams

Julian Beck

Sol Weinstein

Novella Nelson

Madame St. Clair

Laurence Fishburne

Bumpy Rhodes

John P. Ryan

Joe Flynn

Tom Waits

Irving Stark

Ron Karabatsos

Mike Best

Glenn Withrow

Ed Popke

Jennifer Grey

Patsy Dwyer

Wynonna Smith

Winnie Williams

Thelma Carpenter

Norma Williams

Charles 'Honi' Coles

Suger Coates

Larry Marshall

Cab Calloway

Joe Dallesandro

Charles 'Lucky' Luciano

Diane Venora

Gloria Swanson

Tucker Smallwood

Kid Griffin

Marc Coppola

Ted Husing

Robert Earl Jones

Stage Door Joe

Sofia Coppola

Child in Street

Tracey Ross

Dancer

Mario Van Peebles

Dancer

Ed O'Ross

Monk

Frederick Downs Jr.

Sullen Man

Woody Strode

Holmes

Bill Graham

J.W.

Dayton Allen

Solly

Kim Chan

Ling

Ed Rowan

Messiah

Leonard Termo

Danny

Brian Tarantina

Vince Hood

Bruce MacVittie

Vince Hood

James Russo

Vince Hood

Giancarlo Esposito

Bumpy Hood

Rony Clanton

Caspar Holstein

Damien Leake

Bub Jewett

Bill Cobbs

Big Joe Ison

Joe Lynn

Marcial Flores

Oscar Barnes

Spanish Henry

Ed Zang

Hotel Clerk

Sandra Beall

Myrtle Fay

Zane Mark

Duke Ellington

Paul Herman

Policeman #1

Randle Mell

Policeman #2

Gregory Rozakis

Charlie Chaplin

Vincent Jerman-Jerosa

James Cagney

Rosalind Harris

Fanny Brice

Jackée Harry

Dancer

Sonya Hensley

Dancer

Valarie Pettiford

Dancer

Kimberly Dorsey

Joan Blondell (uncredited)

Anton Evangelista

Ownie Hood (uncredited)

Nicholas J. Giangiulio

Screen Test Thug (uncredited)

Suzanne Kaaren

The Duchess of Park Avenue (uncredited)

Robin Karfo

Vera's Sidekick / Banville Club (uncredited)

Mark Margolis

Charlie Workman (uncredited)

Naylon Mitchell

Busboy (uncredited)

Ray Negron

Waiter (uncredited)

Kirk Taylor

Cotton Club Waiter (uncredited)

Rick Washburn

Hitman (uncredited)