Captain Eddie
18/06/1945
2h



WWI flyer Eddie Rickenbaker remembers his life which brought him from a car salesman, race driver and pilot in WWI, to an important person in the early years of civil airline service, after his plane crashed in the South Pacific in late 1942.
Cast


Fred MacMurray
Eddie Rickenbacker


Lynn Bari
Adelaide Frost Rickenbacker


Charles Bickford
William Rickenbacker


Thomas Mitchell
Ike Howard


Lloyd Nolan
Lt. Jim Whitaker


James Gleason
Tom Clark


Spring Byington
Mrs. Frost


Mary Philips
Elsie Rickenbacker


Darryl Hickman
Eddie Rickenbacker as a boy


Dwayne Hickman
Louis Rickenbacker


Richard Conte
Pvt. John Bartek


Stanley Ridges
Col. Hans Adamson


Dorothy Adams
Nurse


Mary Gordon
Mrs. Westrom


Virginia Brissac
Flo Clark


Charles Russell
Sgt. Jim Reynolds


Clem Bevans
Jabez


Grady Sutton
Lester Thomas


Chick Chandler
Richard Lacey
Nancy June Robinson
Mary Rickenbacker
Winifred Glyn
Emma Rickenbacker
Gregory Marshall
Dewey Rickenbacker
David Spencer
Albert Rickenbacker
Elvin Field
Bill Rickenbacker


George Mitchell
Lt. Johnny De Angelis
Boyd Davis
Mr. Frost
Don Garner
Sgt. Alex
Joseph J. Greene
Dinkenspiel


Olin Howland
Census Taker
Robert Malcolm
Mr. Foley
Leila McIntyre
Mrs. Foley


Harry Shannon
Simmons
Peter Garey
Freddie


Fred Essler
Prof. Montague


Lotte Stein
Mme. Montagne


Earle S. Dewey
Dr. Campbell
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