Los Angeles Plays Itself

Encke King

Narrator (voice)

Ben Alexander

Officer Frank Smith in Dragnet (archive footage)

Jim Backus

Frank Stark in Rebel Without A Cause (archive footage)

Brenda Bakke

Lana Turner in L.A. Confidential (archive footage)

Barbara O. Jones

Dorothy in Bush Mama (archive footage)

Gene Barry

Dr. Clayton Forrester in The War of The Worlds (archive footage)

Richard Basehart

Roy Morgan/Roy Martin in He Walked By Night (archive footage)

Hugh Beaumont

George Copeland in The Blue Dahlia (archive footage)

William Bendix

Buzz Wanchek in The Blue Dahlia (archive footage)

Ann Blyth

Veda Pierce in Mildred Pierce (archive footage)

Jim Bouton

Terry Lennox in The Long Goodbye (archive footage)

Grand L. Bush

FBI Agent Little Johnson in Die Hard (archive footage)

James Cagney

Tom Powers in The Public Enemy (archive footage)

Lon Chaney Jr.

Charles Benton in The Indestructible Man (archive footage)

John Considine

Matthew Crawford in Timestalkers (archive footage)

Bill Cosby

Al Hickey in Hickey & Boggs (archive footage)

Robert Culp

Frank Boggs in Hickey & Boggs (archive footage)

Howard Duff

Dave Pomeroy in Panic in the City (archive footage)

Thom Andersen

Director, Writer, Producer

Deborah Stratman

Director of Photography

Peter Bo Rappmund

Editor