Los Angeles Plays Itself

Encke King

— Narrator (voice)

Ben Alexander

— Officer Frank Smith in Dragnet (archive footage)

Jim Backus

— Frank Stark in Rebel Without A Cause (archive footage)

Brenda Bakke

— Lana Turner in L.A. Confidential (archive footage)

Barbara O. Jones

— Dorothy in Bush Mama (archive footage)

Gene Barry

— Dr. Clayton Forrester in The War of The Worlds (archive footage)

Richard Basehart

— Roy Morgan/Roy Martin in He Walked By Night (archive footage)

Hugh Beaumont

— George Copeland in The Blue Dahlia (archive footage)

William Bendix

— Buzz Wanchek in The Blue Dahlia (archive footage)

Ann Blyth

— Veda Pierce in Mildred Pierce (archive footage)

Jim Bouton

— Terry Lennox in The Long Goodbye (archive footage)

Grand L. Bush

— FBI Agent Little Johnson in Die Hard (archive footage)

James Cagney

— Tom Powers in The Public Enemy (archive footage)

Lon Chaney Jr.

— Charles Benton in The Indestructible Man (archive footage)

John Considine

— Matthew Crawford in Timestalkers (archive footage)

Bill Cosby

— Al Hickey in Hickey & Boggs (archive footage)

Robert Culp

— Frank Boggs in Hickey & Boggs (archive footage)

Howard Duff

— Dave Pomeroy in Panic in the City (archive footage)

Deanna Durbin

— Penny in Three Smart Girls (archive footage)

Mark Frechette

— Mark in Zabriskie Point (archive footage)

John Garfield

— Nick Blake in Nobody Lives Forever (archive footage)

Ben Gazzara

— Jackie Treehorn in The Big Lebowski (archive footage)

Bruce Glover

— Duffy in Chinatown (archive footage)

Marjoe Gortner

— Joby in Earthquake (archive footage)

James Griffith

— Jesse Quinn in Dragnet (archive footage)

Daria Halprin

— Daria in Zabriskie Point (archive footage)

Oliver Hardy

— Ollie (archive footage)

Jean Harlow

— Gwen Allen in The Public Enemy (archive footage)

Bob Hope

— Adam J. Niles in Bachelor in Paradise (archive footage)

Lauren Hutton

— Georgia Crawford in Timestalkers (archive footage)