The Great Dictator (1940) Cast & Character Guide — No Spoilers | Who's That?

Who plays who in The Great Dictator (1940)? Browse a spoiler-free character guide with photos of every major character and the actors behind them, including Charlie Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Jack Oakie.

• Adenoid Hynkel, Dictator of Tomania / A Jewish Barber — played by Charlie Chaplin
• Hannah — played by Paulette Goddard
• Benzino Napaloni, Dictator of Bacteria — played by Jack Oakie
• Commander Schultz — played by Reginald Gardiner
• Garbitsch — played by Henry Daniell
• Field Marshal Herring — played by Billy Gilbert
• Madame Napaloni — played by Grace Hayle
• Spook — played by Carter DeHaven
• Mr. Jaeckel — played by Maurice Moscovitch
• Mrs. Jaeckel — played by Emma Dunn
• Mr. Mann — played by Bernard Gorcey
• Mr. Agar — played by Paul Weigel
• Barber's Customer — played by Chester Conklin
• Jewish Woman — played by Esther Michelson
• Storm Trooper Stealing Fruit — played by Hank Mann
• Blonde Secretary — played by Florence Wright
• Tomanian Storm Trooper — played by Eddie Gribbon
• Tomanian Commandant at Osterlich / Robert O. Davis — played by Rudolph Anders
• Whitewashed Storm Trooper — played by Eddie Dunn
• Secretary — played by Nita Pike