Opening credits
(on-screen) [1]

 

METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER
Presents
A GEORGE PAL PRODUCTION

H. G. Wells'
THE TIME MACHINE

Starring
ROD TAYLOR

ALAN YOUNG

YVETTE MIMIEUX

SEBASTIAN CABOT
TOM HELMORE

With
WHIT BISSELL
DORIS LLOYD

Screenplay by
DAVID DUNCAN

Based on the Novel by
H. G. WELLS

Music score
RUSSELL GARCIA

In METROCOLOR
©MCMLX by Loew's Incorporated
and Galaxy Films, Inc.
All Rights in this Motion Picture
Reserved Under International Conventions

Director of Photography
PAUL C. VOGEL, A.S.C.

Art Directors
GEORGE DAVIS and WILLIAM FERRARI

Set Decorations
HENRY GRACE and KEOGH GLEASON

Special Photographic Effects
GENE WARREN and WAH CHANG

Film Editor
GEORGE TOMASINI, A.S.E.

Recording Supervisor
FRANKLIN MILTON

Color Consultant
CHARLES K. HAGEDON

Assistant director
WILLIAM SHANKS

Hairstyles by
SYDNEY GUILAROFF

Make-up Created by
WILLIAM TUTTLE

Directed by
GEORGE PAL

 

 

Closing panel [2]

H. G. Well's
THE TIME MACHINE

THE END

Made by
GALAXY FILMS, INC.

Released by
METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER

 

 

 

 

 

Detailed casting list

Cast
(in credits order) [1] [2]

George Wells (The Time Traveler)
Rod Taylor

David Filby / James Filby
Alan Young

Weena
Yvette Mimieux

Dr. Philip Hillyer
Sebastian Cabot

Anthony Bridewell
Tom Helmore

Walter Kemp
Whit Bissell

Mrs. Watchett
Doris Lloyd

 

Rest of cast
(all uncredited) [3]

Voice of the Talking Rings
Paul Frees [4]

First Eloi Man
Bob Barran [4]

Second Eloi Man
James Skelly [4]

First Morlock
V. Kepipi [5]

Second Morlock
Peter Pal [6]

Eloi People
Josephine Powell [4]
Michael Hiltner [4] [5]
Melvin Sant [5]
Robert Sant [5]
William R. Blackburn [23]
Messrs. Holf, Hollis, Kelly, Miller,
O'Keef, Rhodes, and Schulhof [5]

Filby's window dresser
Don Sahlin [6] [8]

Stunts
Louie Elias (Rod Taylor's double) [19]

 

 

 

 

Detailed Film credits [1]

Director
George Pal

Producer
George Pal (uncredited) [8]

Production companies
Loew's Incorporated and Galaxy Films, Inc.

Distribution company
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Assistant director
William Shanks

Assistant to the producer
Gae Griffith (uncredited) [7] [8]

Script supervisor
Eylla Jacobus (uncredited) [9]

Screenplay
David Duncan

Based on the novel by
Herbert George Wells

Contribution to the screenplay
Phillip Yordan (uncredited) [10]

Director of photography
Paul C. Vogel

Color consultant
Charles K. Hagedon

Special photographic effects
Project Unlimited Co. (uncredited) [8]
Gene Warren
Wah Chang
Tim Baar (uncredited) [6]

Additional special effects / Optical effects
Howard A. Anderson (uncredited) [11]

Optical effects cameraman
Phil Kellison (uncredited) [11]

Stop-motion assistant camera
Ralph Rodine (uncredited) [11]

Stop-motion animators
Tom Holland (uncredited) [11]
Don Sahlin (uncredited) [11]

Stop-motion animator /
Time Machine console animation
David Pal (uncredited) [6] [11]

Stop-motion paintings / Matte artist
Bill Brace (uncredited) [6] [11]

Assistant animator / Visual effects assistant
Jim Danforth (uncredited) [11]

Film editor
George Tomasini

Assistant editor
Edward Milkis (uncredited) [20]

Art direction
George W. Davis
William Ferrari

Set decorations
Henry Grace
Keogh Gleason

Prop man
Don Vanni (uncredited) [22]

Make-up creator
William Tuttle

Make-up artist
John Truwe (uncredited) [12]

Assistant makeup artists
Ron Berkeley (uncredited) [8]
Charles Schram (uncredited) [8]

Hairstyles  supervisor
Sydney Guilaroff

Hairstyles
Mary Keats (uncredited) [8]

Costume designer
Kitty Majer (uncredited) [5]

Costumers
Russ Caplan (uncredited) [5]
Gertrude Gellart (uncredited) [5]
Bob Hellsworth (uncredited) [5]

 

Sound Department

Recording supervisor
Franklin Milton

Sound editor
Van Allen James (uncredited) [13]

Dubbing mixer
William Steinkamp (uncredited) [8]

 

Music Score
Russell Garcia

Music Department

Conductor
Russell Garcia (uncredited) [14]

Musicians
(all uncredited) [14]

Violin
Sam Fiedler
Sam Freed, Jr.
Werner L. Gebauer
Arnold T. Jurasky
Bernard Kundell
Joy Lyle
Arthur Maebe, Sr.
Lisa Minghetti
Irving Prager
Lou Raderman
Albert Saparoff
Dorothy M. Wade

Viola
Cecil Figelski
Allan Harshman
Virginia Majewski
Reuben Marcus

Cello
Alex Alexander
Julian Kahn
Raphael Kramer
Michel Penha

Bass
George F. Boujie
Mario Camposano
Arthur Shapiro

Flute
Arthur Gleghorn

Oboe
Arnold Koblentz

Clarinet
Gus Bivona
Alex Gershunoff
Alan Harding
Don Lodice
Hugo Raimondi

Bassoon
Charles A. Gould

French Horn
John W. Cave
Vincent DeRubertis
Herman Lebow

Trumpet
Uan Rasey
Joe Triscari
James C. Zito

Trombone
Randall Miller
Richard Noel
Herb Taylor

Piano
Max Rabinowitz
Milton Raskin

Harp
Catherine Gotthoffer

Drums
Frank L. Carlson
Mel Pedesky

 

Miscellaneous

Production illustrator / Storyboard artist
Mentor Huebner (uncredited) [15]

Movie poster artist
Reynold Brown (uncredited) [16]

Morlock design
George Pal (uncredited) [8] [16]

Time Machine design
George Pal (uncredited) [6]
William Ferrari (uncredited) [6]
Mentor Huebner (uncredited) [6]

Time Machine miniature makers
Wah Chang (uncredited) [21]
Paul LeBaron (uncredited) [21]

Still photographer
Frank Shugrue (uncredited) [17]

Car supplier (1966 sequence)
George Barris Customs (uncredited) [18]

Car owners (1966 sequence)
George Barris, Shirley Barris, Bill deCarr,
Jim Logue, and Bob Metz (all uncredited) [18]

Rented props (Talking Rings scene) made by
Max Gebinger [24]
Kenneth Strickfaden [25]

 

 

 

 

 

 

Notes and References

[1] All main credits are reproduced from the on-screen
credits introducing the film.

[2] There are no ending cast credits with characters’ names,
although this was common at the time.

[3] In addition to the opening credits, there's data from IMDb
and other sources that are rendered here for what they're worth.
Specific footnotes follow, mentioning the source
and directing to particular web pages (identified by the sign ▷).

[4] ▷ IMDb - The Time Machine - Additional cast

[5] Wardrobe reference photographs from
the Don Coleman Collection where the names of extra actors
and costume designers are mentioned on slate boards.

[6] ▷ B.F.I. (British Film Institute) Database

[7] ▷ Colemanzone.com - Time Machine Project - Gae Griffith

[8] Don G. Smith, H.G. Wells on Film: The Utopian Nightmare,
McFarland & Co., 2002.
 ▷ Book extract in GoogleBooks.com

[9] The name of Eylla Jacobus is mentioned alongside those
of Alan Young and George Pal in the description of a production
photograph (1755-X14) which is part of the M.G.M. Collection
held by the ▷ Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

[10] ▷ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Yordan

[11] ▷ IMDb - The Time Machine full credits: visual effects

[12] ▷ IMDb - The Time Machine full credits: makeup department

[13] ▷ IMDb - The Time Machine full credits: sound department

[14] Music recorded at M.G.M. Studios Scoring Stage,
Culver City, California on December 8 and 9, 1959.
Detailed list of orchestra musicians
 ▷ Filmscoremonthly.com - The Time Machine

[15] ▷ IMDb - The Time Machine full credits: art department

[16] ▷ IMDb - The Time Machine full credits: miscellaneous

[17] Frank Shugrue was the appointed still photographer
on the filming of The Time Machine. For more information, see:
a) ▷ Colemanzone.com - Time Machine Project - Frank Shugrue
b) ▷ Morcki.com - The Life and Works of Frank Shugrue

[18] ▷ https://kustomrama.com/wiki/The_Time_Machine

[19] Louie Nicholas Elias (1933-2017) was Rod Taylor's official
double throughout the career of the actor. Elias can be seen
in ▷ the unreferenced photo #31.

[20] Edward K. Milkis (1931-1996) was George Tomasini's
assistant on North By Northwest and The Time Machine
before he produced TV series.
 ▷ https://www.allmovie.com/artist/edward-k-milkis-vn15475744

[21] Source: Wah Chang cited in George Pal - Man of Tomorrow
by Justin Humphreys (BearManor Media, 2023). Chang says
LeBaron built the time machine miniature with him (p. 286).
▷ https://bearmanor-digital.myshopify.com

[22] Don Vanni is mentioned in the American press book printed
in 1960 by MGM. ▷ The Time Machine Project - USA Publicity

[23] In an interview given to Justin Humphreys around 2010,
Bill Blackburn, known to be a background actor in numerous
Star Trek episodes, said he played an Eloi in The Time Machine.

[24] Max Gebinger built the Spaceship navigational sphere
(also called "Astrogator") previously seen in Forbidden Planet.
 ▷ https://collections.new.oscars.org/Details/Archive/70000733

[25] Kenneth Strickfaden built the futuristic machines
(Cosmic Ray Diffuser, Pyrogeyser, Travelling Arc…) previously
seen in Frankenstein, The Mask of Fu Manchu, and other films.
Source: Kenneth Strickfaden, Dr. Frankenstein's Electrician
by Harry Goldman (McFarland & Co., 2005)