Around the World in 80 Days
1956 film by Michael Anderson · Released October 17, 1956
Around the World in 80 Days (sometimes spelled as Around the World in Eighty Days) is a 1956 American epic adventure-comedy film starring David Niven, Cantinflas, Robert Newton, and Shirley MacLaine, produced by the Michael Todd Company and released by United Artists. The picture was directed by Michael Anderson and produced by Mike Todd, with Kevin McClory and William Cameron Menzies as associate producers. The screenplay, based on the classic 1873 novel of the same name by Jules Verne, was written by James Poe, John Farrow and S.J. Perelman. The music score was composed by Victor Young and the Todd-AO 70 mm cinematography (processed by Technicolor) was by Lionel Lindon.
Cast ages at release (October 17, 1956)
- David Niven, as Phileas Fogg: 46
- Cantinflas, as Passepartout: 45
- Robert Newton, as Inspector Fix: 51
- Shirley MacLaine, as Princess Aouda: 22
- Charles Boyer, as Monsieur Gasse: 57
- Noël Coward, as Roland Hesketh-Baggott: 56
- Cedric Hardwicke: 63
- Finlay Currie, as Andrew Stuart: 78
- Fernandel, as a Paris coachman: 53
- Luis Miguel Dominguín, as a bullfighter: 29
- Gilbert Roland, as Achmed Abdullah: 50
- Cesar Romero, as Abdullah's henchman: 49
- Peter Lorre, as a steward on the SS Carnatic: 52
- George Raft, as the bouncer of the Barbary Coast Saloon: 55
- Marlene Dietrich, as the saloon hostess: 54
- John Carradine, as Col: 50
- Frank Sinatra, as the saloon pianist: 40
- Trevor Howard, as Denis Fallentin: 43
- John Mills, as a London carriage driver: 48
- Hermione Gingold, as a Sporting Lady: 58
- Glynis Johns, as a Sporting Lady: 33
- Charles Coburn, as a Hong Kong steamship company clerk: 79
- Buster Keaton, as a train conductor: 61
- Joe E. Brown, as the Fort Kearney stationmaster: 65
- Martine Carol, as a girl in the Paris railway station: 36
- Ronald Colman, as a Great Indian Peninsular Railway official: 65
- Melville Cooper, as Mr. Talley: 60
- Reginald Denny, as a Bombay police inspector: 64
- Andy Devine, as the first mate of the SS Henrietta: 51
- John Gielgud: 52