page_title: Invasion of the Body Snatchers
section_title: Cast
hierarchical_section_title: Invasion of the Body Snatchers / Cast
caption_attribution_description: English: Color lobby card for the 1956 American science fiction movie Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Allied Artists, 1956. Assumed to be in the public domain as no copyright notice is in evidence.
context_page_description: Invasion of the Body Snatchers is a 1956 American science fiction horror film produced by Walter Wanger, directed by Don Siegel, that stars Kevin McCarthy and Dana Wynter. The black-and-white film, shot in Superscope, was partially done in a film noir style. Daniel Mainwaring adapted the screenplay from Jack Finney's 1954 science fiction novel The Body Snatchers. The film was released by Allied Artists Pictures as a double feature with the British science fiction film The Atomic Man.
  The film's storyline concerns an extraterrestrial invasion that begins in the fictional California town of Santa Mira. Alien plant spores have fallen from space and grown into large seed pods, each one capable of reproducing a duplicate replacement copy of each human. As each pod reaches full development, it assimilates the physical characteristics, memories, and personalities of each sleeping person placed near it; these duplicates, however, are devoid of all human emotion. Little by little, a local doctor uncovers this "quiet" invasion and attempts to stop it.
  The slang expression "pod people" that arose in late 20th century American culture references the emotionless duplicates seen in the film.
context_section_description: Starring
  Kevin McCarthy as Dr. Miles Bennell
  Dana Wynter as Becky Driscoll
  King Donovan as Jack Belicec
  Carolyn Jones as Theodora "Teddy" Belicec
  Featuring
  Larry Gates as Dr. Dan Kauffman
  Virginia Christine as Wilma Lentz
  Ralph Dumke as Police Chief Nick Grivett
  Kenneth Patterson as Stanley Driscoll
  Guy Way as Officer Sam Janzek
  Jean Willes as Nurse Sally Withers
  Eileen Stevens as Anne Grimaldi
  Beatrice Maude as Grandma Grimaldi
  Whit Bissell (uncredited) as Dr. Hill
  Richard Deacon (uncredited) as Dr. Bassett
   
  With
  Bobby Clark as Jimmy Grimaldi
  Tom Fadden as Uncle Ira Lentz
  Everett Glass as Dr. Ed Pursey
  Dabbs Greer as Mac Lomax
  Sam Peckinpah as Charlie, the gas meter reader
caption: In this colorized still from the movie; the principal cast — (clockwise from top right) Carolyn Jones as Teddy, Kevin McCarthy as Dr. Miles Bennell, King Donovan as Jack Belicec, and Dana Wynter as Becky Driscoll—discover the pods growing.
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