Zelig
You wanted more when it was all over!
7/15/1983
Imdb: tt0086637
Tmdb: 11030
Popularity: 15.556
Vote: 7.4/10 (818)

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.
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)
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