• 
  Norman Jewison

  regizor

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  Stirling Silliphant

  scenarist
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  John Ball

  scenarist

• 
  Sidney Poitier

  Virgil Tibbs
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  Rod Steiger

  Gillespie
• 
  Warren Oates

  Sam Wood
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  Lee Grant

  dna. Colbert
• 
  Larry Gates

  Endicott

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  James Patterson

  dl. Purdy
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  William Schallert

  primarul Schubert
• 
  Beah Richards

  mama Caleba
• 
  Peter Whitney

  Courtney
• 
  Kermit Murdock

  Henderson
• 
  Larry D. Mann

  Watkins
• 
  Matt Clark

  Packy

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  Arthur Malet

  Ulam
• 
  Fred Stewart

  dr. Stuart
• 
  Quentin Dean

  Delores
• 
  Scott Wilson

  Harvey Oberst
• 
  Timothy Scott

  Shagbag
• 
  William Watson

  McNeil
• 
  Eldon Quick

  Charles Hawthorne
• 
  Stuart Nisbet

  Shuie
• 
  Khalil Bezaleel

  Jess
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  Peter Masterson

  Fryer
• 
  Jester Hairston

  Butler
• 
  Phil Adams
• 
  Nikita Knatz
• 
  Sammy Reese
• 
  Anthony James

  Ralph
• 
  Phil Garris
• 
  Clegg Hoyt
• 
  Michael LeGlaire
• 
  Alan Oppenheimer
• 
  Jack Teter
• 
  Buzz Barton
• 
  Warren Kenner
• 
  David Stinehart
• 
  Jazan Winona Wallace

  Viola

• 
  Walter Mirisch

  producător
• 
  Haskell Wexler

  imagine
• 
  Alan Levine

  costume
• 
  Hal Ashby

  montaj
• 
  Quincy Jones

  coloană sonoră
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  Robert Priestley

  decoruri