Dr. Strangelove characters Merkin Muffley
Cast
Peter Sellers as:
Group captain Lionel Mandrake, a British RAF exchange officer
Merkin Muffley, the President of the United States
Dr. Strangelove, the wheelchair-using nuclear war expert and former Nazi named Merkwürdigliebe, who has alien hand syndrome
George C. Scott as General Buck Turgidson, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Sterling Hayden as Brigadier General Jack D. Ripper, paranoid commander of Burpelson Air Force Base, which is part of the Strategic Air Command.
Keenan Wynn as Colonel "Bat" Guano, the Army officer who finds Mandrake and Ripper
Jack Creley as Mr. Staines, National Security Advisor
Slim Pickens as Major T. J. "King" Kong, the B-52 bomber's commander and pilot
Peter Bull as Soviet Ambassador Alexei de Sadeski
James Earl Jones as Lieutenant Lothar Zogg, the B-52's bombardier (film debut)
Tracy Reed as Miss Scott, General Turgidson's secretary and mistress, the film's only female character. She also appears as "Miss Foreign Affairs", the Playboy Playmate in Playboy's June 1962 issue, which Major Kong is shown perusing at one point.
Shane Rimmer as Capt. Ace Owens, the co-pilot of the B-52
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