The Omega Man - actors, characters and roles

All actors and their roles in the film "The Omega Man"
The Omega Man (1971)
Timing: 1:38 (98 min)
The Omega Man - TMDB rating
6.167/10
521
The Omega Man - Kinopoisk rating
6.039/10
1967
The Omega Man - IMDB rating
6.4/10
36000

Actors and characters

Photo Charlton Heston #28513Photo Charlton Heston #28514Photo Charlton Heston #28515Photo Charlton Heston #28516

Charlton Heston

Charlton Heston
Character Robert Neville
Photo Anthony Zerbe #38542Photo Anthony Zerbe #38543Photo Anthony Zerbe #71394

Anthony Zerbe

Anthony Zerbe
Character Matthias
Photo Paul Koslo #24043Photo Paul Koslo #24044

Paul Koslo

Paul Koslo
Character Dutch
Photo Anna Aries #125784
Anna Aries
Character Woman in Cemetery Crypt
Photo Brian Tochi #14531

Brian Tochi

Brian Tochi
Character Tommy
Photo DeVeren Bookwalter #92519

DeVeren Bookwalter

DeVeren Bookwalter
Character Family Member
Photo John Dierkes #106144Photo John Dierkes #106145

John Dierkes

John Dierkes
Character Family Member
Jill Giraldi
Character Little Girl
Monika Henreid
Character Family Member
Linda Redfearn
Character Family Member
Forrest Wood
Character Family Member
Steve Goldstein
Character Last Boy

What's left behind the scenes

  • The filmmakers wanted to shoot in a location that looked like an abandoned town, but building sets would have been too troublesome and expensive. One day, film producer Walter Zelzer (1914-2011) drove through the business district of Los Angeles on his day off and noticed that the streets were completely empty, so they filmed in the appropriate setting on weekends there.
  • This prompted the screenwriters, John William Corrington (1932-1988), Joyce Hooper Corrington, and Richard Matheson (1926-2013), to come up with the idea of making the friend of the main character, played by Charlton Heston (1923-2008), an African American woman, Rosalind Cash (1939-1995). It was the 1970s, and interracial relationships were not yet so common, but the screenwriters decided that in a world where humanity was almost destroyed, racism would already be a thing of the past.
  • The filmmakers wanted to shoot in a location that looked like an abandoned town, but building sets would have been too troublesome and expensive. One day, the film’s producer Walter Zelzer drove through the business district of Los Angeles on a day off and noticed that the streets were completely empty, so they filmed scenes in the appropriate setting on weekends there.
  • The idea to cast Rosaline Cash, an African American actress, as the friend of the main character played by Charlton Heston came to the scriptwriters John William Corrington, Joyce Hooper Corrington, and Richard Matheson. Interracial relationships were not yet widespread, but the scriptwriters decided that in a world where humanity was almost destroyed, racism would already be a thing of the past.
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