On screen
Cast
131 credited performers
Jack Webb
Joe Friday
Harry Morgan
Gannon
Marco López
Officer in Rain Slicker (uncredited)
Don Ross
Lt. Cal Beeson
Art Balinger
Dep. Chief Simon
Alfred Shelly
Carl Freeman
Virginia Gregg
Virginia Miller
John Stephenson
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Len Wayland
Walt Aldrich
Art Gilmore
Lt. Moore
Herb Vigran
Erv Fowler
Stacy Harris
Dr. Manning
Marshall Reed
Fred Deemer
Robert Patten
Officer Young
Anthony Eisley
Thomas Dutcher
Dee Carroll
Diane Conway
Howard Culver
Dr. Larry Fields
Bobby Troup
Claude Stroup
Virginia Vincent
Edie Augburn
Julie Bennett
Jan Petrie
Kent McCord
Officer Whitman
Charles Brewer
Officer Iddings
Olan Soule
Ray Murray
Bert Holland
Carl Wilson
Natalie Masters
Housewife
Eve Brent
Sgt. Connie Speck
Elaine Devry
Patricia Wingate
Clark Howat
Captain Frankel
John Nolan
Mr. Rogers
Herbert Anderson
Robert Blake
Susan Seaforth Hayes
Joyce Anderson
Alma Platt
Katy Wilson
Don Dubbins
Donald L. Chapman
Merry Anders
Policewoman Dorothy Miller
Maudie Prickett
Mrs. Gloria Chambers
Mark Russell
Police Officer (uncredited)
Keye Luke
George Lum
Herbert Ellis
John Sawyer
Lillian Bronson
Fay Sager
John Sebastian
Lawrence Shafner
James McEachin
Off. Tim Miles
Heather Menzies
Lisa Bogart
Robert Clarke
Clayton Filmore
Ralph Moody
Matt Kemper
Harlan Warde
Capt. Henry Mack
Ed Deemer
Chief Oxley
Harry Bartell
Chief Wayne Johnson
Peggy Webber
Mrs. Mary Tucker
Lorraine Gary
Mrs. Frank
Henry Corden
Emile Hartman
Frank Gerstle
Albert Marks
Jan-Michael Vincent
Rick Schneiderman
Walter Brooke
Capt. Carl Fuller
Dick Simmons
Marcus Denner
Eve McVeagh
Bonnie McKenzie
William Challee
bearded man singing Christmas carol (uncredited)
Luana Anders
Anna Marie Harmon
Emily Banks
Ann Tipton
Don 'Red' Barry
James Fremont
Cyril Delevanti
Basil Jennings
Dick Cherney
Detective (uncredited)
Byron Keith
Nick Gowers
Lovyss Bradley
Juror (uncredited)
Michael Burns
Benjie 'Blue Boy' Carver
Jerry Douglas
Sgt. Eugene Zappey
Vince Howard
Officer Bondi
Dick Miller
Harry Johnson
John Lupton
Sgt. Carl Maxwell
Kenneth Washington
Off. Bill Bray
John Sebastian
Peter Witmer
John Dennis
Bookie Agent
Grant Williams
Father Barnes
Edward Faulkner
Lawrence Devon
Jerry Dexter
Jerry Dexter
Larry D. Mann
Pete Benson
Raymond Mayo
Ben Roy Yoder (uncredited)
Andrea King
Mrs. Lisa Fulton
Russell Arms
David Carroll
Lane Bradford
Champ Ridgely
Ann Morgan Guilbert
Bessie McDermott
Martin Milner
Officer Pete Malloy
Anne Whitfield
Irene Hillier
Kevin Coughlin
Character not listed
O. J. Simpson
Potential Recruit (uncredited)
Judith McConnell
Karen Fields
Ron Nyman
Detective (uncredited)
Harry Hickox
John Benjamin
Veronica Cartwright
Melissa Stevens
Robert Swan
Off. Frank Miller
William Reynolds
Sgt. William Riddle
Sidney Miller
Jay Simmons
Gary Crosby
Blake Thompson
Sidney Clute
Sam Golden
Ben Morris
Chief Everett Snoddy (as Ben Chandler)
Tom Anfinsen
Student (uncredited)
Art Gilmore
Captain Howe
Marian Collier
Angela Riplon
Dennis McCarthy
Leonard Robbins
Roy Engel
Art Turnbull
Ralph Manza
Gene Ellis
Val Avery
Phil Masturian
Gail Bonney
Mrs. Anna Logan
Tani Guthrie
Angie (as Tani Seitz)
Burt Mustin
Fred Gregory
Jill Banner
Camille
Annazette Chase
Mary Carstairs
Don Marshall
Dave Roberts
Audrey Dalton
Patricia Filmore
King Moody
Norton Bernard
Julian Burton
Ed Neiman
Luana Patten
Angie
Marianne Gordon
Norma Bryant
Doodles Weaver
Cliff Tate
Kathleen Freeman
Mrs. Sunshine Pound
Shannon Farnon
Dorothy Wickersham
Morris D. Erby
Dr. Carl Felton
Stuart Nisbet
Thaddeus White
Lou Wagner
Caretaker
Michele Grumet
Donna Halpern
Jack Sheldon
Ted Patterson
Mickey Sholdar
Paul Sutherland
Speedy Zapata
Rudy Herrera
Chanin Hale
Helen Zimmerman
Chet Stratton
Henri
Sam Edwards
Steve Houseman
David Carlile
Robert Weston
Peter Duryea
Paul Reed
Robert Hitchcock
Kenneth Fielder (uncredited)
Ronnie Rondell Jr.
Donald Joseph Albers
Angel Tompkins
Sarah Phillips
Alex Wilson
1st Patrolman