Directed by:
Sam WoodCinematography:
Rudolph MatéComposer:
Leigh HarlineCast:
Gary Cooper, Teresa Wright, Babe Ruth, Walter Brennan, Dan Duryea, Ludwig Stössel, Virginia Gilmore, Ernie Adams, Pierre Watkin, Harry Hayden, Addison Richards (more)Plots(1)
Biopic traces the life of Lou Gehrig, famous baseball player who played in 2130 consecutive games before falling at age 37 to ALS, a deadly nerve disease which now bears his name. Gehrig is followed from his childhood in New York until his famous Luckiest Man speech at his farewell day in 1939. (MUBI)
Cast
![Charles Cane](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/159/000/159000162_65fe1a.jpg)
Charles Cane
USA
Best movies:
The Killing (1956)
In a Lonely Place (1950)
The Big Heat (1953)
![Harry Harvey](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/159/000/159000168_b63048.jpg)
Harry Harvey
USA
Best movies:
Fury (1936)
Ace in the Hole (1951)
Strike Up the Band (1940)
![Don Brodie](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/159/000/159000176_21637e.jpg)
Don Brodie
USA
Best movies:
The Great Dictator (1940)
The Name of the Game (1968) (series)
Little Big Man (1970)
![Pat Flaherty](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/159/000/159000248_6efdc2.jpg)
Pat Flaherty
USA
Best movies:
The Great Dictator (1940)
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
![Earle Hodgins](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/159/162/159162628_304e81.gif)
Earle Hodgins
USA
Best movies:
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
Inherit the Wind (1960)
East of Eden (1955)
Donald Kerr
USA
Best movies:
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
The Big Country (1958)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Lester Dorr
USA
Best movies:
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
Ace in the Hole (1951)
Inherit the Wind (1960)
![Mary Gordon](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/158/712/158712161_95d5f1.jpg)
Mary Gordon
UK
Best movies:
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
After the Thin Man (1936)
It Started with Eve (1941)
![James Westerfield](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/159/256/159256217_36145c.jpg)
James Westerfield
USA
Best movies:
On the Waterfront (1954)
Birdman of Alcatraz (1962)
The Proud Rebel (1958)
![Guy Wilkerson](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/159/445/159445223_9c6cc9.jpg)
Guy Wilkerson
USA
Best movies:
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Gone with the Wind (1939)
Hello, Dolly! (1969)
![John Kellogg](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/159/515/159515994_eeec6d.jpg)
John Kellogg
USA
Best movies:
To Be or Not to Be (1942)
Out of the Past (1947)
Samson and Delilah (1949)
![Cyril Ring](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/159/952/159952409_add6da.jpg)
Cyril Ring
USA
Best movies:
The Great Dictator (1940)
Edison, the Man (1940)
The Roaring Twenties (1939)
![Lynton Brent](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/018/160018319_aa2fb2.jpg)
Lynton Brent
USA
Best movies:
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (1939)
King Kong (1933)
Sarah Padden
UK
Best movies:
It Started with Eve (1941)
The Power and the Glory (1933)
Possessed (1947)
![Dorothy Vaughan](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/159/893/159893450_70195d.jpg)
Dorothy Vaughan
USA
Best movies:
After the Thin Man (1936)
Gentleman Jim (1942)
The Man in the Iron Mask (1939)
Eva Dennison
USA
Best movies:
It Happened One Night (1934)
The Pride of the Yankees (1942)
The Lady Eve (1941)
![Patsy O'Byrne](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/079/160079960_fae089.jpg)
Patsy O'Byrne
USA
Best movies:
It Happened One Night (1934)
The Pride of the Yankees (1942)
The Canterville Ghost (1944)
![John Daheim](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/132/160132209_363253.jpg)
John Daheim
USA
Best movies:
Strangers on a Train (1951)
Spartacus (1960)
Von Ryan's Express (1965)
Charles Williams
USA
Best movies:
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
Love Is News (1937)
History Is Made at Night (1937)
Jack Gardner
USA
Best movies:
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
The Talk of the Town (1942)
Gentleman Jim (1942)