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==Cast== {{colbegin}} * [[Buster Crabbe]] as [[Flash Gordon]] * [[Charles B. Middleton]] as [[Ming the Merciless]] * [[Jean Rogers]] as [[Dale Arden]] * [[Priscilla Lawson]] as [[Princess Aura]] * [[Frank Shannon]] as [[Hans Zarkov|Dr. Alexis Zarkov]] * [[Richard Alexander (actor)|Richard Alexander]] as [[Prince Barin]] * [[Jack Lipson]] as King Vultan * [[Theodore Lorch]] as Second High Priest * [[James Pierce]] as [[Prince Thun]] * [[Duke York]] as King Kala * Earl Askam as Officer Torch * [[Lon Poff]] as First High Priest ''(uncredited)'' * [[Richard Tucker (actor)|Richard Tucker]] as Professor Gordon * [[George Cleveland]] as Professor Hensley * Muriel Goodspeed as Zona {{colend}} '''Cast notes:''' * [[Eddie Parker (actor)|Eddie Parker]] served as a [[stand-in]] and [[stunt double]] for Buster Crabbe.<ref name="Harmon1973" /> * [[Crash Corrigan]], who would later star in other serials, wore a modified [[gorilla suit]] to portray the "orangopoid" seen in chapters 8 and 9.<ref name="Harmon1973" /> * [[Glenn Strange]] in uncredited roles wore the "Gocko" lobster-clawed dragon costume and also appears as one of Ming's soldiers.<ref>[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0833363/ "Glenn Strange"], filmography, [[Internet Movie Database]] (IMDb). Retrieved April 30, 2019.</ref> * Richard Alexander helped to design his own costume, which included a leather chest plate painted gold.<ref name="Harmon1973" /> * Early film fan historians claimed that actor [[Lon Poff]], playing the first of Ming's two high priests, died shortly after production began and was replaced by Theodore Lorch.{{Citation needed|date=April 2019}} In fact, however, only Poff's character died, or rather was killed by Ming in an act of fury and replaced by Lorch's High Priest, but the scene was cut from the final print. Poff did not die until 1952.{{Citation needed|date=April 2019}}
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