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Which actors played the main roles in Lolita?
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Stanley Kubrick during the filming of Barry Lyndon (1975).
In the 1962 film Lolita, directed by Stanley Kubrick, the main roles were portrayed by the following actors:
- James Mason as Humbert Humbert1
- Sue Lyon as Lolita1
- Shelley Winters as Charlotte Haze1
- Peter Sellers as Clare Quilty1
The film, based on the novel by Vladimir Nabokov, depicts the story of a middle-aged professor whose obsession with a teenager leads to his downfall.1