Fighter Squadron - Cast

Cast

  • Edmond O'Brien as Major Ed Hardin
  • Robert Stack as Captain Stu Hamilton
  • John Rodney as Colonel Bill Brickley
  • Tom D'Andrea as Sergeant Dolan
  • Henry Hull as Major General Mike McCready
  • James Holden as Lieutenant Tennessee Atkins
  • Walter Reed as Captain Duke Chappell
  • Shepperd Strudwick as Brigadier General M. Gilbert
  • Arthur Space as Major Sanford
  • Jack Larson as 2nd Lieutenant 'Shorty' Kirk
  • Bill McLean as Private Wilbur
  • Mickey McCardle as Jacobs
Cast notes
  • Rock Hudson has an uncredited role as a pilot in his film debut. Hudson, a former truck driver by the name of Roy Fitzgerald, was under personal contract to director Raoul Walsh, who rode him unmercifully, saying "You big dumb bastard, don’t just get in the center of the camera and stay there like a tree, move!" It took 38 takes to get a good version of Hudson's one line, "You’ve got to get a bigger blackboard."

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