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.
ROBERT “BANZAI BOB” YOSHIDA.Part-time Buddhist priest and samurai-sword peddler.