Murder by Death

Synopsis

Lionel Twain invites the world's five greatest detectives to a 'dinner and murder'. Included are a blind butler, a deaf-mute maid, screams, spinning rooms, secret passages, false identities and more plot turns and twists than are decently allowed.

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Cast

Truman Capote

Lionel Twain

Alec Guinness

Butler Jamesir Bensonmum

Peter Sellers

Sidney Wang

David Niven

Dick Charleston

Maggie Smith

Dora Charleston

James Coco

Milo Perrier

Peter Falk

Sam Diamond

Eileen Brennan

Tess Skeffington

Elsa Lanchester

Jessica Marbles

Estelle Winwood

Nurse Withers

Nancy Walker

Kitchen Maid Yetta

James Cromwell

Marcel Cassette

Richard Narita

Willie Wang

Fay Wray

Door Bell (archive sound) (uncredited)

Crew

Art

• Marvin March Set Decoration
• Wayne Fitzgerald Title Designer
• Stephen B. Grimes Production Design
• Harry Kemm Art Direction
• Terry E. Lewis Property Master

Camera

• David M. Walsh Director of Photography
• Robert Edesa First Assistant Camera
• Roger Shearman Jr. Camera Operator
• Mel Traxel Still Photographer
• Richard Moran Key Grip

Costume & Make-Up

• Vivienne Walker Hairstylist
• Ann Roth Costume Design
• Joe DiBella Makeup Artist
• Tony Faso Costumer
• Charles H. Schram Makeup Supervisor
• Agnes G. Henry Costumer
• Mary Malin Assistant Costume Designer

Crew

• Charles Addams Title Graphics
• Augie Lohman Special Effects
• Maurice Marks Stunts
• Ron Frazier Carpenter
• John Brice Editorial Staff
• Carol Shapiro Unit Publicist
• George Rondo Dialogue Coach

Directing

• Robert Moore Director
• Fred T. Gallo Assistant Director
• David Sosna Second Assistant Director
• Julia Tucker Continuity

Editing

• John F. Burnett Editor
• Margaret Booth Supervising Film Editor
• Michael A. Stevenson Assistant Editor

Lighting

• Norman Harris Gaffer

Production

• Ray Stark Producer
• Jennifer Shull Casting
• Roger M. Rothstein Associate Producer
• Shari Leibowitz Assistant Production Manager
• Vince Martinez Finance
• Frank Bueno Producer's Assistant

Sound

• Dave Grusin Original Music Composer
• Joseph Kite Boom Operator
• Frank E. Warner Sound Effects Editor
• Tex Rudloff Sound Re-Recording Mixer
• Jerry Jost Sound mixer
• George Probert Music Editor

Writing

• Neil Simon Writer

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