Movie

The Prisoner of Shark Island

Released: February 28, 1936 (1936)

Runtime: 93 minutes

Genres: Drama, History

After healing the leg of the murderer John Wilkes Booth, responsible for the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, perpetrated on April 14, 1865, during a performance at Ford's Theatre in Washington; Dr. Samuel A. Mudd, considered part of the atrocious conspiracy, is sentenced to life imprisonment and sent to the sinister Shark Island Prison.

Main Cast (Top 10 billed, oldest first)

Claude Gillingwater as Colonel Dyer
Age at release: 65
Arthur Byron as Mr. Erickson
Age at release: 63
O. P. Heggie as Dr. Mac Intyre
Age at release: 58
Harry Carey as Commandant
Age at release: 58
Douglas Wood as General Ewing
Age at release: 55
Francis Ford as Corporal O'Toole
Age at release: 54
Warner Baxter as Dr. Samuel Alexander Mudd
Age at release: 46
Francis McDonald as John Wilkes Booth
Age at release: 44
Gloria Stuart as Mrs. Peggy Mudd
Age at release: 25
John McGuire as Lieutenant Lovett
Age at release: 25

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Frank McGlynn Sr. as Abraham Lincoln
Age at release: 69
Frank Shannon as Mr. Holt
Age at release: 61
Leila McIntyre as Mrs. Abraham Lincoln
Age at release: 53
J.M. Kerrigan as Judge Maiben
Age at release: 51
Robert Dudley as Druggist at Trial (uncredited)
Age at release: 46
Etta McDaniel as Aunt Rosabelle
Age at release: 45
Ernest Whitman as Buck
Age at release: 43
Frank Baker as Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
Age at release: 43
Lester Dorr as George A. Atzerodt (uncredited)
Age at release: 42
Stanley Blystone as Boy Seeking Dr. Mudd (uncredited)
Age at release: 41
Arthur Loft as Carpet Bagger
Age at release: 38
Paul McVey as General Hunter
Age at release: 37
Paul Fix as David Herold
Age at release: 34
John Carradine as Sergeant Rankin
Age at release: 30
Fred Kohler Jr. as Sergeant Cooper
Age at release: 23
Maurice Murphy as Orderly
Age at release: 22
Whitney Bourne as Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
Age at release: 21
Matthew Beard as Boy at Dr. Mudd's Door (uncredited)
Age at release: 11
Joyce Kay as Martha Mudd
Age at release: Unknown
Stanley Bordagaray as Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
Age at release: Unknown