Twelve O'Clock High - Cast

Cast

As appearing in screen credits (main roles identified):

• Gregory Peck as Brigadier General Frank Savage
• Hugh Marlowe as Lieutenant Colonel Ben Gately
• Gary Merrill as Colonel Keith Davenport
• Millard Mitchell as Major General Pritchard
• Dean Jagger as Major / Lieutenant Colonel Harvey Stovall
• Robert Arthur as Sergeant McIllhenny
• Paul Stewart as Major "Doc" Kaiser (flight surgeon)
• John Kellogg as Major Cobb
• Robert Patten as Lieutenant Bishop
• Lee MacGregor as Lieutenant Zimmerman
• Sam Edwards as Lieutenant Birdwell
• Roger Anderson as Interrogation Officer
• Lawrence Dobkin as Captain Twombley, group chaplain (uncredited)
• Kenneth Tobey as Sgt. Keller, guard at gate (uncredited)
• Paul Picerni as Bombardier (uncredited)
• Harry Lauter as Radio officer (uncredited)
• Barry Jones as Lord Haw-Haw, German radio commentator (voice) (uncredited)
• Don Gordon as First patient in base hospital (uncredited)
• Richard Anderson as Lt. McKesson (uncredited)

Cast notes

• The name Harvey Stovall was derived from William Howard Stovall, a World War I flying ace who served on the World War II staff of Major General Carl A. "Tooey" Spaatz. The film's author Sy Bartlett served as Spaatz' aide-de-camp and became friends with Stovall during the war. He presented Stovall with a copy of his book referencing this fact in his inscription.
• The character of "Doc" Kaiser is listed in the film's credits as "Captain", but he is shown wearing the oak leaves of a major and is referred to as "Major" throughout the film.
• The character of Harvey Stovall is initially a major, but is promoted to lieutenant colonel when he takes over as the 918th's Ground Exec. He refers to himself as a "retread" no longer physically qualified for combat, wears basic pilot wings and service chevrons from World War I on his service dress uniform, the inference being that he flew in the Army Air Service in World War I. In the novel, Stovall had been an infantryman, noting that his greatest moral challenge had been in bayoneting a German soldier.