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Which actors played the defense attorney and the prosecutor in Anatomy of a Murder?
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Film director Otto Preminger, 1976.
In the 1959 film Anatomy of a Murder, directed by Otto Preminger, the defense attorney Paul Biegler was played by James Stewart. The prosecutor, Claude Dancer, was portrayed by George C. Scott.123