Dr. Baugh — Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Character Profile

About Dr. Baugh

The physician who privately reveals Big Daddy's inoperable cancer diagnosis to Gooper and Brick, orchestrating the family's deception to protect the patriarch.

Character Facts

Played by

Larry Gates

Appears in

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)

Role

Supporting

More characters from Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

• Brick (Paul Newman)
• Maggie (Elizabeth Taylor)
• Harvey 'Big Daddy' Pollitt (Burl Ives)
• Big Momma (Judith Anderson)
• Sonny Pollitt (Robert 'Rusty' Stevens)
• Gooper (Jack Carson)
• Mae (Madeleine Sherwood)
• Buster Pollitt (Hugh Corcoran)
• Deacon Davis (Vaughn Taylor)
• Boy (Brian Corcoran)
• Servant (Zelda Cleaver)