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Which actors starred in Michael Curtiz’s Angels with Dirty Faces?
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Michael Curtiz
Michael Curtiz.
The 1938 classic gangster film Angels with Dirty Faces, directed by Michael Curtiz, featured a notable ensemble cast, including:1
- James Cagney as William "Rocky" Sullivan
- Pat O’Brien as Jerome "Jerry" Connolly
- Humphrey Bogart as James "Jim" Frazier
- Ann Sheridan as Laury
- George Bancroft as Mac Keefer
- Billy Halop as Soapy
- Leo Gorcey as Bim
- Huntz Hall as Crab
The film also featured a group of young actors known as the Dead End Kids, who played the impressionable boys idolizing Rocky Sullivan.1