Movie Cast & Crew: Indiana Jones (franchise)
by christophershobris | created - 21 May 2020 | updated - 22 May 2020 | PublicThe iconic adventurer/archeologist with the equally iconic fedora, whip, and outfit is Indiana Jones. But who are the people responsible for bringing this franchise to life? Here is a list of the people involved in the film both in front and behind the camera.
1. Steven Spielberg
Producer | Schindler's List
One of the most influential personalities in the history of cinema, Steven Spielberg is Hollywood's best known director and one of the wealthiest filmmakers in the world. He has an extraordinary number of commercially successful and critically acclaimed credits to his name, either as a director, ...
Director (1-4)
2. George Lucas
Writer | Star Wars
George Walton Lucas, Jr. was raised on a walnut ranch in Modesto, California. His father was a stationery store owner and he had three siblings. During his late teen years, he went to Thomas Downey High School and was very much interested in drag racing. He planned to become a professional racecar ...
Story (1-4)
3. John Williams
Composer | Jurassic Park
As one of the best known, awarded, and financially successful composers in US history, John Williams is as easy to recall as John Philip Sousa, Aaron Copland or Leonard Bernstein, illustrating why he is "America's composer" time and again. With a massive list of awards that includes over 52 Oscar ...
Film Composer (1-4)
4. Harrison Ford
Actor | Raiders of the Lost Ark
Harrison Ford was born on July 13, 1942 in Chicago, Illinois, to Dorothy (Nidelman), a radio actress, and Christopher Ford (born John William Ford), an actor turned advertising executive. His father was of Irish and German ancestry, while his maternal grandparents were Jewish emigrants from Minsk, ...
Indiana Jones (1-4)
5. Michael Kahn
Editor | West Side Story
Michael Kahn was born on December 8, 1935 in New York City, New York, USA. He is an editor and cinematographer, known for West Side Story (2021), Jurassic Park (1993) and Minority Report (2002).
Editor (1-4)
6. Douglas Slocombe
Cinematographer | Rollerball
London-born Douglas Slocombe has long been regarded as one of the film industry's premiere cinematographers, but he began his career as a photojournalist for Life magazine and the Paris-Match newspaper before World War II. During the war he became a newsreel cameraman, and at war's end he went to ...
Cinematographer (1-3)
7. Frank Marshall
Producer | The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Frank was born in Glendale, California to musician Jack Marshall. He entered the film world when his parents invited him to a birthday party for the daughter of directing legend John Ford in 1966. There, he met Peter Bogdanovich and soon agreed to work on his first film, Targets (1968), later ...
Producer (1, 4 only)
8. Robert Watts
Producer | Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Robert Watts was born on May 23, 1938 in London, England, UK. He is a producer and production manager, known for Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988), Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980) and Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983).
Producer (2-3)
9. Lawrence Kasdan
Writer | The Big Chill
Lawrence Kasdan is an American filmmaker, producer and screenwriter. He directed Body Heat, Grand Canyon, The Big Chill, Silverado and Dreamcatcher. He wrote Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Bodyguard, The Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi, The Force Awakens and Solo: A Star Wars Story. He is ...
Screenwriter (1)
10. Willard Huyck
Writer | Howard the Duck
Willard Huyck was born on September 8, 1945 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He is a writer and director, known for Howard the Duck (1986), American Graffiti (1973) and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984). He was previously married to Gloria Katz.
Screenwriter (2)
11. Gloria Katz
Writer | Howard the Duck
Gloria Katz was born on October 25, 1942 in Los Angeles, California, USA. She was a writer and producer, known for Howard the Duck (1986), American Graffiti (1973) and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984). She was married to Willard Huyck. She died on November 25, 2018 in Los Angeles, ...
Screenwriter (2)
12. Jeffrey Boam
Writer | Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Jeffrey Boam was born on November 30, 1946 in Rochester, New York, USA. He was a writer and producer, known for Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989), The Dead Zone (1983) and The Phantom (1996). He was married to Paula M. Boam. He died on January 26, 2000 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
Screenwriter (3)
13. David Koepp
Writer | Jurassic Park
David Koepp is an American film director and screenwriter. He is known for writing Jurassic Park directed by Steven Spielberg, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, Mission: Impossible, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Spider-Man directed by Sam Raimi and Panic Room directed by David ...
Screenwriter (4)
14. Janusz Kaminski
Cinematographer | War Horse
Janusz Kaminski is a Polish cinematographer and film director. He has established a partnership with Steven Spielberg, working as a cinematographer on his movies since 1993. He won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography for his work on Schindler's List (1993) and Saving Private Ryan (1998).
His ...
Cinematographer (4)
15. Philip Kaufman
Writer | The Right Stuff
Director and screenwriter Philip Kaufman was born in Chicago, Illinois. He attended the University of Chicago and later Harvard Law School. He won the Prix de la Nouvelle Critique at Cannes in 1965 for his film Goldstein (1964). He was the screenwriter for The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976) and was to ...
Story (1)
16. Menno Meyjes
Writer | Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Menno Meyjes was born in 1954 in Bloemendaal, Noord-Holland, Netherlands. He is a writer and director, known for Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989), The Color Purple (1985) and The Siege (1998).
Story (3)
17. Jeff Nathanson
Writer | Speed 2: Cruise Control
Jeff Nathanson was born on October 12, 1965 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He is a writer and producer, known for Speed 2: Cruise Control (1997), Catch Me If You Can (2002) and Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (2017).
Story (4)
18. Karen Allen
Actress | Raiders of the Lost Ark
Karen Jane Allen was born in Carrollton, rural southern Illinois, to Patricia (Howell), a teacher, and Carroll Thompson Allen, an FBI agent. She spent her first 10 years traveling around the country with her parents and two sisters. She was always "the new girl in school." Acting did not really ...
Marion Ravenwood (1, 4 only)
19. Kate Capshaw
Actress | Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Kate Capshaw was born Kathleen Sue Nail in Fort Worth, Texas, to Beverley Sue (Simon), a beautician and travel agent, and Edwin Leon Nail, an airline employee. Capshaw worked as a teacher with an MA in Learning Disabilities. Her desire to be an actress led her to New York where she landed a role on...
Willie Scott (2)
20. Alison Doody
Actress | Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Alison Doody was born in Dublin in 1966, in a well-off family. She is the youngest of three children. She was educated in a convent, where she gained a passion for the arts. She later studied at the National College of Fine Arts in Dublin, but she left because she lacked the motivation and thought ...
Dr. Elsa Schneider (3)
21. Paul Freeman
Actor | Raiders of the Lost Ark
Probably one of Britain's most underrated actors, Paul Freeman has accumulated literally hundreds of screen credits over several decades, most notably as the main villain in the Steven Spielberg classic Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), and he has worked extensively in the theatre, but he has managed...
Rene Belloq (1)
22. Ronald Lacey
Actor | Raiders of the Lost Ark
A prolific character actor on British television for three decades, Ronald Lacey was born on June 18, 1935 in the suburbs of London. He began his career in 1961 after compulsory National Service. He attended The London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. His first notable performance was delivered ...
Arnold Toht (1)
23. Wolf Kahler
Actor | Raiders of the Lost Ark
Wolf Kahler is a German born character actor who, thanks to his height (6'2") and blue eyes was often cast as a Nazi or unsympathetic German characters in his career. He has appeared in several successful franchises (Indiana Jones, The Dirty Dozen), both playing a Nazi officer named Dietrich, and ...
Colonel Dietrich (1)
24. Amrish Puri
Actor | Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
For Amrish Puri, it was virtually the 'Summer of 42'. The actor's long simmering affair with acting found culmination when he reached his early 40s. And while his dream of playing the hero may have been thwarted, he went on to become the most loved villains of all time. He was also an artiste who ...
Mola Ram (2)
25. Julian Glover
Actor | Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Julian Wyatt Glover was born on March 27, 1935 in Hampstead, London, England, to Honor Ellen Morgan (Wyatt), a BBC journalist, and Claude Gordon Glover, a BBC radio producer. He is of English, Scottish and Welsh ancestry. Primarily a classical stage actor, Glover trained at the National Youth ...
Walter Donovan (3)
26. Michael Byrne
Actor | Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Michael Byrne was born on November 7, 1943 in London, England, UK. He is an actor, known for Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989), The Sum of All Fears (2002) and Braveheart (1995).
Ernst Vogel (3)
27. Cate Blanchett
Actress | Carol
Cate Blanchett was born on May 14, 1969 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, to June (Gamble), an Australian teacher and property developer, and Robert DeWitt Blanchett, Jr., an American advertising executive, originally from Texas. She has an older brother and a younger sister. When she was ten ...
Irina Spalko (4)
28. Igor Zhizhikin
Actor | Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Igor Jijikine is a Russian-American actor best known for his powerful scenes opposite Harrison Ford in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008).
He was born Igor Zhizhikin, in 1965, in Russia. Young Igor was fond of movies and acting; he was also a good sportsmen. He attended the ...
Colonel Antonin Dovchenko (4)
29. Dimitri Diatchenko
Actor | Get Smart
A native of San Francisco, Dimitri Diatchenko attended Newton North High School in Newton, Massachusetts. After high school, he attended Stetson University in Deland, Florida where he was a scholarship music student, majoring in classical guitar. After completing the Bachelors program, he ...
Spalko’s Right Hand Man (4)
30. John Rhys-Davies
Actor | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Welsh actor John Rhys-Davies was born in Ammanford, Carmarthenshire, Wales, to Mary Margaretta Phyllis (nee Jones), a nurse, and Rhys Davies, a mechanical engineer and Colonial Officer. He graduated from the University of East Anglia and is probably best known to film audiences for his roles in the...
Sallah (1, 3 only)
31. Denholm Elliott
Actor | A Room with a View
Denholm entered RADA at the age of 17, but dropped out after a year having hated every minute being there. He joined the RAF in 1940, trained as a gunner/radio operator, and was shot down over Germany in 1942. In the POW camp he and his fellow prisoners staged various productions in a theatre ...
Dr. Marcus Brody (1-3)
32. Roshan Seth
Actor | Gandhi
A native of New Delhi, India, British character actor of theater and film Roshan Seth honed the skills he learned at London's Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts in British repertory theater. His first break came in Peter Brook's production of A Midsummer Night's Dream, which toured in 1972. Seth ...
Chattar Lal (2)
33. Philip Stone
Actor | The Shining
Philip Stone was an English character actor, born in Leeds, West Yorkshire, in 1924. His first job was for an engineering company in Leeds and he served in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War. He was on stage at the West End in London from 1947. He also contracted tuberculosis that year...
Capt. Philip Blumburtt (2)
34. Ke Huy Quan
Actor | Everything Everywhere All at Once
Ke Huy Quan, also known as Jonathan Ke Quan, is a Vietnamese-born Chinese-American actor and stunt choreographer. Quan played Short Round in "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom" (1984) and Data in "The Goonies" (1985). In 1990 and 1991, he co-starred as Jasper Kwong in the sitcom "Head of the ...
Short Round (2)
35. Sean Connery
Actor | The Rock
The tall, handsome and muscular Scottish actor Sean Connery is best known as the original actor to portray James Bond in the hugely successful movie franchise, starring in seven films between 1962 and 1983. Some believed that such a career-defining role might leave him unable to escape it, but he ...
Dr. Henry Jones Sr. (3)
36. Alex Hyde-White
Actor | Pretty Woman
London born, raised in SoCal in Palm Springs. PSHS Alum lettered in baseball, tennis and golf. Attended Georgetown University in Washington, DC for a year when he was 16. Became contract player at Universal Studios, as part of the last group to be under the long-term Hollywood contract. Played ...
Younger Dr. Henry Jones Sr. (3)
37. Ray Winstone
Actor | The Departed
Ray Winstone was born on February 19, 1957, in Hackney Hospital in London, England, to Margaret (Richardson) and Raymond J. Winstone. He moved to Enfield, at age seven, where his parents had a fruit and vegetable business. He started boxing at the age of twelve at the famous Repton Amateur Boxing ...
George McHale (4)
38. John Hurt
Actor | Nineteen Eighty-Four
One of stage, screen and TV's finest transatlantic talents, slight, gravel-voiced, pasty-looking John Vincent Hurt was born on January 22, 1940, in Shirebrook, a coal mining village, in Derbyshire, England. The youngest child of Phyllis (Massey), an engineer and one-time actress, and Reverend ...
Harold Oxley (4)
39. Jim Broadbent
Actor | Moulin Rouge!
One of England's most versatile character actors, Jim Broadbent was born on May 24, 1949, in Lincolnshire, the youngest son of furniture maker Roy Laverick Broadbent and sculptress Doreen "Dee" (Findlay) Broadbent. Jim attended a Quaker boarding school in Reading before successfully applying for a ...
Dean Charles Stanforth (4)
40. Shia LaBeouf
Actor | Honey Boy
Shia LaBeouf's natural talent and raw energy have secured his place as one of Hollywood's leading men.
Most recently, LaBeouf starred alongside Vanessa Kirby and Ellen Burstyn in Kornel Mundruczo's Oscar® nominated Pieces of a Woman. In the critically acclaimed film, a grieving couple (Kirby/LaBeouf...
Mutt Williams (4)
41. Alfred Molina
Actor | Spider-Man 2
Alfred Molina was born in 1953 in London, England. His mother, Giovanna (Bonelli), was an Italian-born cook and cleaner, and his father, Esteban Molina, was a Spanish-born waiter and chauffeur. He studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London. His stage work includes two major Royal ...
Satipo (1)
42. George Harris
Actor | Raiders of the Lost Ark
George Harris was born on October 20, 1949 in Grenada, British West Indies [now Grenada]. He is an actor and producer, known for Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), Layer Cake (2004) and Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007).
Simon Katanga (1)
43. Anthony Higgins
Actor | Raiders of the Lost Ark
Higgins was born May 9, 1947 in East Northamptonshire, England to parents who had emigrated from Ireland just before World War II in search of economic opportunity. His parents lived in London during the Blitz. Eventually, they left London for Northamptonshire so that his father could obtain work ...
Major Gobler (1)
44. Vic Tablian
Actor | Raiders of the Lost Ark
Vic Tablian was born in Palestine, which was a British Mandate from 1917 to 1948. He is an actor known for his roles in the Indiana Jones' franchise: Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) in which he had two roles, as Peruvian guide Barranca and the Nazi collaborating "Monkey Man", and The Young Indiana ...
Barranca (1) Monkey Man (1)
45. Don Fellows
Actor | Raiders of the Lost Ark
Don Fellows was born on December 2, 1922 in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. He was an actor, known for Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987) and Superman II (1980). He was married to Miranda Fellows. He died on October 21, 2007 in London, England, UK.
Colonel Musgrove (1)
46. William Hootkins
Actor | Star Wars
William Michael Hootkins was born on July 5, 1948, in Dallas, Texas. He moved to London, England in the early '70s and lived there up until 2002. Hootkins was an actor at Theatre Intime while attending Princeton University where he learned how to speak fluent Mandarin Chinese. He also trained as an...
Major Eaton (1)
47. Roy Chiao
Actor | Bloodsport
Roy Chiao was born on March 16, 1927 in Shanghai, China. He was an actor, known for Bloodsport (1988), Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) and Game of Death (1978). He died on April 14, 1999 in Seattle, Washington, USA.
Lao Che (2)
48. David Yip
Actor | A View to a Kill
Born in Liverpool, one of eight children. David's father was a Chinese seaman from the Canton area of southern China, and his mother was from Liverpool. He trained at E15 Acting School, London in 1973 and since then worked in Film, Television, Theatre, Radio and other voice work both in the UK and ...
Wu Han (2)
49. Raj Singh
Actor | Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Raj Singh is known for Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984), Agneepath (1990) and Kranti (1981).
Zalim Singh (2)
50. D.R. Nanayakkara
Actor | Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
D.R. Nanayakkara was born on March 15, 1915 in Kolonnawa, Colombo District, Ceylan [now Sri Lanka]. He was an actor, known for Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984), Seedevi (1951) and Amma (1949). He died on January 4, 1989.
Shaman (2)
51. River Phoenix
Actor | My Own Private Idaho
River Phoenix was born River Jude Bottom in Madras, Oregon. His mother, Arlyn (Dunetz), a Bronx-born secretary, and his father, John Bottom, a carpenter, met in California in 1968. They worked as itinerant fruit pickers, and later joined the Children of God religious group (John was originally ...
Young Indiana Jones (3)
52. Kevork Malikyan
Actor | Flight of the Phoenix
Kevork is a British actor of Armenian descent, born in Diyarbakir. He spent seven years training for priesthood at the Holy Cross Seminary, in Istanbul. He received his acting,and,teaching qualifications from Rose Bruford College,(1964-67). His first major film was Midnight Express, followed by, ...
Kazim (3)
53. Robert Eddison
Actor | Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Robert Eddison was born on June 10, 1908 in Yokohama, Japan. He was an actor, known for Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989), The Theban Plays by Sophocles (1986) and The Eustace Diamonds (1959). He died on December 14, 1991 in London, England, UK.
Grail Knight (3)
54. Michael Sheard
Actor | Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back
Michael Sheard was born on June 18, 1938 in Aberdeen, Grampian, Scotland, UK. He was an actor, known for Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980), The Outsider (1983) and Mind Your Language (1977). He was married to Rosalind Allaway. He died on August 31, 2005 in Newport, Isle of Wight...
Oskar Schomburg (1) Adolf Hitler (3)
55. Alexei Sayle
Actor | Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Alexei Sayle was born on August 7, 1952 in Anfield, Liverpool, England, UK. He is an actor and writer, known for Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989), Alexei Sayle's Stuff (1988) and Whoops Apocalypse (1982). He has been married to Linda Rawsthorn since 1974.
Hatay (3)
56. Paul Maxwell
Actor | Aliens
Paul Maxwell was born on November 12, 1921 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. He was an actor, known for Aliens (1986), Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) and A Bridge Too Far (1977). He was married to Mary Lindsay. He died on December 19, 1991 in London, England, UK.
Panama Hat Man (3)
57. Pat Roach
Actor | Raiders of the Lost Ark
Proud and passionate Angle, Pat Roach, was born and raised in Birmingham, England and grew to be a mountain of a man standing at six feet, five inches tall, with doorway-wide shoulders and a barrel chest.
Pat wrestled competitively under the name of "Bomber" Roach, and at one time held both the ...
Nazi mechanic who fights Indy in the airplane scene, Grand Sherpa who fights Indy in Marion’s bar. (1) Thuggee overseer (2) Nazi who accompanies Vogel to Zeppelin (3)
58. Alan Dale
Actor | Priest
Alan Dale was born on May 6, 1947 in Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand. He is an actor, known for Priest (2011), Star Trek: Nemesis (2002) and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008). He has been married to Tracey Dale since April 8, 1990. They have two children. He was previously ...
General Ross (4)
59. Joel Stoffer
Actor | Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Joel Stoffer is known for Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008) and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (2013).
FBI Agent (4)
60. Neil Flynn
Actor | Mean Girls
Neil Richard Flynn is an American actor and comedian, known for his role as "The Janitor", in the medical comedy-drama, Scrubs (2001). He currently portrays "Mike Heck" in the ABC sitcom, The Middle (2009). Neil was born in the south-side of Chicago. He is of Irish descent and was raised Catholic. ...
FBI Agent (4)
61. Andrew Divoff
Actor | Air Force One
Andrew Daniel Divoff is a Venezuela-born Russian actor and stuntman, best known for playing the evil Djinn in the first two Wishmaster films and the villains Cherry Ganz in Another 48 Hrs., Ernesto Mendoza in A Low Down Dirty Shame, Boris Bazylev in Air Force One, Ivan Sarnoff in CSI: Miami and ...
Soviet soldier (4)
62. Pasha D. Lychnikoff
Actor | Deadwood
Born in Moscow, a student of Moscow Academy of Dramatic Arts, Pasha (aka Pavel) Lychnikoff, appeared on Moscow's stages in such productions as Gogol's Inspector General and Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment. In early 90s Pasha moved to the United States to pursue his acting career there. Arriving ...
Soviet soldier (4)
63. Ernie Reyes Jr.
Actor | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze
Ernie Reyes Jr. was born on January 15, 1972 in San Jose, California, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze (1991), The Rundown (2003) and Red Sonja (1985). He has been married to Lisa Reyes since November 11, 2009. They have two ...
Cemetery Guard (4)
64. Dennis Muren
Visual_effects | Jurassic Park
Dennis Muren is the Senior Visual Effects Supervisor and Creative Director of Industrial Light & Magic. A recipient of nine Oscars for Best Achievement in Visual Effects and a Technical Achievement Academy Award®, Muren is actively involved in the evolution of the company, as well as the design and...
Nazi Spy (1)
65. Terry Richards
Actor | Raiders of the Lost Ark
Terry Richards was born on November 2, 1932 in London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), Brazil (1985) and Red Sonja (1985). He died on June 14, 2014 in Ruislip, London, England, UK.
Cairo swordsman (1)
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