---
title: 'Meet John Doe (1941)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Frank Capra'
released: '1941-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 122
genres:
  - 'Drama'
  - 'Comedy'
  - 'Romance'
countries:
  - 'United States'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/meet-john-doe-1941'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033891/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Meet John Doe (1941)

1941 · 122 min · Drama, Comedy, Romance · United States


## Synopsis

Meet John Doe is a 1941 American comedy-drama film directed and produced by Frank Capra, written by Robert Riskin, and starring Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward Arnold, Walter Brennan, Spring Byington, James Gleason, and Gene Lockhart. The film is about a "grassroots" political campaign created unwittingly by a newspaper columnist with the involvement of a hired homeless man and pursued by the paper's wealthy owner.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Frank Capra](https://cinepixo.com/people/frank-capra)
- **Producer:** [Frank Capra](https://cinepixo.com/people/frank-capra)
- **Screenplay:** [Robert Riskin](https://cinepixo.com/people/robert-riskin), [Richard Connell](https://cinepixo.com/people/richard-connell)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Dimitri Tiomkin](https://cinepixo.com/people/dimitri-tiomkin)
- **Director of Photography:** [George Barnes](https://cinepixo.com/people/george-barnes)
- **Editor:** [Daniel Mandell](https://cinepixo.com/people/daniel-mandell)

## Cast

- [Stanley Andrews](https://cinepixo.com/people/stanley-andrews)
- [Jack Mower](https://cinepixo.com/people/jack-mower)
- [Sidney Bracey](https://cinepixo.com/people/sidney-bracey)
- [Ann Doran](https://cinepixo.com/people/ann-doran)
- [Paul Panzer](https://cinepixo.com/people/paul-panzer)
- [Gene Lockhart](https://cinepixo.com/people/gene-lockhart)
- [Billy Curtis](https://cinepixo.com/people/billy-curtis)
- [Forrester Harvey](https://cinepixo.com/people/forrester-harvey)
- [J. Farrell MacDonald](https://cinepixo.com/people/j-farrell-macdonald)
- [Hank Mann](https://cinepixo.com/people/hank-mann)
- [Charles C. Wilson](https://cinepixo.com/people/charles-c-wilson)
- [Wyndham Standing](https://cinepixo.com/people/wyndham-standing)
- [Sarah Edwards](https://cinepixo.com/people/sarah-edwards)
- [Eddie Kane](https://cinepixo.com/people/eddie-kane)
- [Bert Moorhouse](https://cinepixo.com/people/bert-moorhouse)

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