Joe Brody — The Big Sleep Character Profile

Character Facts

Played by

Louis Jean Heydt

Appears in

The Big Sleep (1946)

Role

Supporting

Relationships (3)

• Joe Brody — Alliance Criminal Associate — Eddie Mars (John Ridgely)

  Brody and Mars operate within overlapping gambling and blackmail networks.

• Joe Brody — Narrative Investigator — Philip Marlowe (Humphrey Bogart)

  Marlowe interrogates Brody regarding the blackmail scheme and subsequent murders.

• Joe Brody — Conflict Blackmail Target — General Sternwood (Charles Waldron)

  Brody extorted Sternwood in the past, creating a lingering financial and criminal threat.

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• Philip Marlowe (Humphrey Bogart)
• Vivian Sternwood Rutledge (Lauren Bacall)
• Eddie Mars (John Ridgely)
• Carmen Sternwood (Martha Vickers)
• Acme Bookstore Proprietress (Dorothy Malone)
• Croupier (uncredited) (Jack Chefe)
• General Sternwood (Charles Waldron)
• Norris the Butler (Charles D. Brown)
• Mona Mars (Peggy Knudsen)
• Waitress (uncredited) (Tanis Chandler)
• Medical Examiner (uncredited) (Joseph Crehan)
• Art Huck (uncredited) (Trevor Bardette)