Editing Citizen Kane (section)

==Cast==
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The beginning of the film's ending credits states that "Most of the principal actors in ''Citizen Kane'' are new to motion pictures. The [[Mercury Theatre]] is proud to introduce them."<ref name="Aus DVD">{{cite AV media |title=Citizen Kane |medium=DVD |publisher=[[Warner Bros. Home Entertainment]] |date=March 2, 2009}}</ref> The cast is then listed in the following order, with [[Orson Welles]]' credit for playing Charles Foster Kane appearing last:<ref name="Aus DVD"/>
* [[Joseph Cotten]] as [[Sources for Citizen Kane#Jedediah Leland|Jedediah Leland]], Kane's best friend and a reporter for ''The Inquirer''. Cotten also appears (hidden in darkness) in the ''News on the March'' screening room.<ref name="AFIcat"/>
* [[Dorothy Comingore]] as [[Sources for Citizen Kane#Susan Alexander Kane|Susan Alexander Kane]], Kane's mistress and second wife.<ref name="AFIcat"/>
* [[Agnes Moorehead]] as Mary Kane, Kane's mother.<ref name="AFIcat"/>
* [[Ruth Warrick]] as Emily Monroe Norton Kane, Kane's first wife.<ref name="AFIcat"/>
* [[Ray Collins (actor)|Ray Collins]] as [[Sources for Citizen Kane#Jim W. Gettys|Jim W. Gettys]], Kane's political rival for the post of Governor of New York.<ref name="AFIcat"/>
* [[Erskine Sanford]] as Herbert Carter, editor of ''The Inquirer''. Sanford also appears (hidden in darkness) in the ''News on the March'' screening room.<ref name="AFIcat"/>
* [[Everett Sloane]] as Mr. Bernstein, Kane's friend and employee at ''The Inquirer''.<ref name="AFIcat"/>
* [[William Alland]] as Jerry Thompson, a reporter for ''News on the March''. Alland also voices the narrator of the ''News on the March'' newsreel.<ref name="AFIcat"/>
* [[Paul Stewart (actor)|Paul Stewart]] as Raymond, Kane's butler.<ref name="AFIcat"/>
* [[George Coulouris]] as Walter Parks Thatcher, a banker who becomes Kane's legal guardian.<ref name="AFIcat"/>
* [[Fortunio Bonanova]] as Signor Matiste, vocal coach of Susan Alexander Kane.<ref name="AFIcat"/>
* [[Gus Schilling]] as John, headwaiter at the El Rancho nightclub. Schilling also appears (hidden in darkness) in the ''News on the March'' screening room.<ref name="AFIcat"/>
* [[Philip Van Zandt]] as Mr. Rawlston, ''News on the March'' open at the producer.<ref name="AFIcat"/>
* [[Georgia Backus]] as Bertha Anderson, attendant at the library of Walter Parks Thatcher.<ref name="AFIcat"/>
* [[Harry Shannon (actor)|Harry Shannon]] as Jim Kane, Kane's father.<ref name="AFIcat"/>
* [[Sonny Bupp]] as Charles Foster Kane III, Kane's son.<ref name="AFIcat"/>
* [[Buddy Swan]] as Charles Foster Kane, age eight.<ref name="AFIcat"/>
* [[Orson Welles]] as [[Charles Foster Kane]], a wealthy newspaper publisher.<ref name="AFIcat">{{cite web |url=http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=27624 |title=Citizen Kane Movie Detail |publisher=[[AFI Catalog of Feature Films|The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States: Feature Films, 1941&nbsp;– 1950]] |access-date=April 14, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141025073736/http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=27624 |archive-date=October 25, 2014 |url-status=live}}</ref>

Additionally, [[Charles Bennett (actor)|Charles Bennett]] appears as the entertainer at the head of the chorus line in the ''Inquirer'' party sequence,<ref name="Naremore Magic">{{cite book |last=Naremore |first=James |author-link=James Naremore |date=1989 |title=The Magic World of Orson Welles |edition=2nd |location=Dallas |publisher=Southern Methodist University Press |isbn=0-87074-299-X |url=https://archive.org/details/magicworldoforso00nare}}</ref>{{Rp|40–41}} and cinematographer [[Gregg Toland]] makes a [[cameo appearance]] as an interviewer depicted in part of the ''News on the March'' newsreel.<ref>{{cite news |title=The Maltese Falcon: A detective story |url=http://www.navhindtimes.in/the-maltese-falcon-a-detective-story/ |date=June 16, 2018 |access-date=July 27, 2018 |newspaper=[[Navhind Times]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180803232848/http://www.navhindtimes.in/the-maltese-falcon-a-detective-story/ |archive-date=August 3, 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.hollywood.com/movies/oscars-academy-awards-best-pictures-ranked-best-to-worst-57278111/#/ms-2558/1 |title=Oscars: Ranking All 87 Best Picture Winners |access-date=July 27, 2018 |work=[[Hollywood.com]] |date=February 22, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180727054506/http://www.hollywood.com/movies/oscars-academy-awards-best-pictures-ranked-best-to-worst-57278111/#/ms-2558/1 |archive-date=July 27, 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref> Actor [[Alan Ladd]], still unknown at that time, makes a small appearance as a reporter smoking a pipe at the end of the film.<ref name=Companion>{{cite news| last=Ebert| first=Roger| author-link=Roger Ebert| title=A Viewer's Companion to 'Citizen Kane'| work=[[Chicago Sun Times]]| url= https://www.rogerebert.com/roger-ebert/a-viewers-companion-to-citizen-kane}}</ref>