DR. RUTH MILDRED CRESSMEYER. Dr. Cressmeyer is Huey’s mom, and a film-studio abortionist. She appears in American Tabloid and Perfidia.
EX–CHIEF JAMES EDGAR “TWO-GUN” DAVIS. The real-life Davis appears in Perfidia.
CLAIRE DE HAVEN. Dope addict and shrill left-winger. Miss De Haven appears in The Big Nowhere and Perfidia.
ELLEN DREW. The real-life film actress. Miss Drew appears in Perfidia.
MONDO “EL TIGRE” DÍAZ. Hoodlum and raucous Fifth Columnist.
CHUCKIE DUQUESNE. Jazz musician and psycho killer.
FRITZ ECKELKAMP. Armed robber and Marxist-fascist extortionist.
BILLY ECKSTINE. Real-life singer and bandleader.
SERGEANT COLIN FORBES, Los Angeles Police Department. The real-life Forbes works out of the PD’s Hollywood Station.
LEANDER FRECHETTE. Labor goon and heist man.
MEYER GELB. Armed robber and Marxist-fascist extortionist.
TOMMY GLENNON. Hot-prowl rapist and Nazi shitheel.
SERGEANT AL GOOSSEN, Los Angeles Police Department. The real-life Goossen works out of the PD’s Hollywood Station.
WILLIS “BIG DADDY” GORDEAN. A bouncer at the Taj Mahal Klub.
KYOHO HANAMAKA. Japanese naval attaché and Fifth Column mastermind.
MONSIGNOR JOE HAYES. Morally dubious priest with the L.A. Archdiocese.
CHIEF C. B. “CALL-ME-JACK” HORRALL, Los Angeles Police Department. The real-life Horrall appears in Perfidia.
SID HUDGENS. Newspaper scribe and scandalmonger. Hudgens appears in L.A. Confidential and Perfidia.
SERGEANT ELMER JACKSON, Los Angeles Police Department. The real-life Jackson appears in Perfidia.
WAYNE FRANK JACKSON. Drifter, armed robber, Fifth Columnist. Brother of Sergeant Elmer Jackson.
WALLACE N. JAMIE. Real-life private eye.
OFFICER GEORGE KAPEK, Los Angeles Police Department. Shitbird cop on the Alien Squad.
JOAN ROSEN KLEIN. Fifteen-year-old girl, on the loose in Mexico. Miss Klein appears in Blood’s A Rover.
OTTO KLEMPERER. The real-life conductor and composer.
MAGDA KOENIG. An exiled Hungarian musician.
MIKLOS KOENIG. An exiled Hungarian musician.
UNCLE ACE KWAN. Tong warlord and restauranteur. Uncle Ace appears in L.A. Confidential and Perfidia.
KAY LAKE. Miss Lake appears in The Black Dahlia and Perfidia.
DR. NORT LAYMAN. A Los Angeles County deputy coroner. Dr. Nort appears in The Big Nowhere, L.A. Confidential, and Perfidia.
CONSTANZA LAZARO-SCHMIDT. Concert violist and fascist femme fatale.
JUAN LAZARO-SCHMIDT. Governor of Baja, California, and Marxist-fascist tool.
EDDIE LENG. Restauranteur, tong man, Fifth Columnist.
ANDREA LESNICK. Ex-Communist and lunatic about town. Miss Lesnick appears in The Big Nowhere and Perfidia.
DR. SAUL LESNICK. Red tool and headshrinker to the stars. Dr. Lesnick appears in The Big Nowhere and Perfidia.
OFFICER “CATBOX” CAL LUNCEFORD, Los Angeles Police Department. Shitbird cop on the Alien Squad.
DR. TERRY LUX. Hotshot plastic surgeon and closet nativist. Dr. Lux appears in The Big Nowhere and Perfidia.
“TEN-INCH” TONY MANGANO. Call boy and fruit hustler.
DONALD MATSURA. Dope peddler and skeevy Fifth Columnist.
JAMES J. McBRIDE. Lawyer for the L.A. Archdiocese.
LORETTA McKEE. Vocalist at the Taj Mahal Klub.
BILL McPHERSON. The L.A. district attorney. McPherson appears in L.A. Confidential and Perfidia.
SERGEANT TURNER “BUZZ” MEEKS, Los Angeles Police Department. Corrupt cop, on the prowl. Meeks appears in The Big Nowhere, L.A. Confidential, and Perfidia.
MAJOR RALPH D. MELNICK, Army SIS. The boss of the SIS contingent in Baja.
HAROLD JOHN MICIAK. Psychopathic flotsam. Miciak appears in White Jazz.
THE REVEREND MARTIN LUTHER MIMMS. Slumlord and race racketeer.
HECTOR OBREGON-HODAKA. Jazz aficionado and Fifth Columnist.
CAPTAIN WILLIAM H. PARKER, Los Angeles Police Department. The real-life Parker appears in L.A. Confidential, White Jazz, and Perfidia.
CAPTAIN JUAN PIMENTEL, Mexican State Police. Fifth Column mastermind.
RAY PINKER, Los Angeles Police Department. The real-life forensic chemist appears in L.A. Confidential, White Jazz, and Perfidia.
OFFICER WENDELL RICE, Los Angeles Police Department. Shitbird cop on the Alien Squad.
GEORGE LINCOLN ROCKWELL. The real-life race baiter and provocateur.
SERGEANT LEW SARNI, San Diego Police Department. Fat-slob Burglary cop.
EDMUND J. “ED THE FED” SATTERLEE. Dubious FBI agent. Satterlee appears in The Big Nowhere and Perfidia.
JOHNNY SHINURA. Jazz hound and broker of fetishistic curios.
“BLOW JOB” BEV SHOFTEL. Hooker and proprietress of a notorious mail drop. Miss Shoftel appears in Blood’s A Rover.
ELIZABETH SHORT. The illegitimate daughter of Dudley Smith. Miss Short appears in The Black Dahlia and Perfidia.
FUJIO “THE WEREWOLF” SHUDO. Sex psycho and scapegoat for a quadruple homicide. Shudo appears in Perfidia.
SERGEANT DUDLEY SMITH, Los Angeles Police Department/Army SIS. Smith appears in The Big Nowhere, L.A. Confidential, White Jazz, and Perfidia.
JEAN STALEY. Carhop and Commie seductress.
BARBARA “BUTCH” STANWYCK. The real-life film actress.
ANNIE STAPLES. Call girl and shakedown artist.
RUTH SZIGETI. An exiled Hungarian musician.
ROBERT TAYLOR. The real-life film actor.
ELLEN TULLOCK. Deputy Karl Tullock’s querulous widow.
KARL TULLOCK, Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Department. Thuggish cop, on the prowl.
CAPTAIN JOSÉ VASQUEZ-CRUZ, Mexican State Police. Politically ambiguous war profiteer.
JORGÉ VILLAREAL–CAIZ. Communist tool.
ORSON WELLES. The real-life film auteur.
AL WILHITE. MP lieutenant at the Manzanar internment camp.