Cast List

The following actors are featured in Roots

LeVar Burton Also starred in: The Jesse Owens Story , Butterfly in the Sky , Star Trek: The Next Generation

Ed Asner Also starred in: Gone in the Night - Part 1 , M.O.M. Mothers of Monsters , Let Go

Georg Stanford Brown Also starred in: Tyler Perry's Madea's Tough Love , The Jesse Owens Story , The Comedians

Maya Angelou Also starred in: The Black Candle: A Kwanzaa Celebration , How to Make an American Quilt , Tyler Perry's Madea's Family Reunion

Moses Gunn Also starred in: Amazing Grace , Charlotte Forten's Mission , Shaft (1971)

Thalmus Rasulala Also starred in: BLACULA , The Defiant Ones (1986) , The Boss' Wife

Ren Woods Also starred in: Youngblood (1978) , The Jerk , Car Wash

Cicely Tyson Also starred in: Cherish the Day , The Comedians , Fried Green Tomatoes

O. J. Simpson Also starred in: Detour to Terror , The Towering Inferno , The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!

Ralph Waite Also starred in: The President's Man , Kid Blue , The Magnificent Seven Ride

Louis Gossett Jr. Also starred in: Firewalker , Carolina Skeletons , Diggstown

Robert Reed Also starred in: El Chico De La Burbuja De Plástico (Doblado) , The Boy in the Plastic Bubble

Lorne Greene ... Marshall Cole Also starred in: The Hard Man , Peyton Place , Battlestar Galactica (Original)

Lynda Day George Also starred in: Mission Impossible , Day of the Animals , Chisum

Vic Morrow Also starred in: King Creole , Cimarron (1960) , It's a Dog's Life

John Amos Also starred in: TV in Black: The First Fifty Years , Coming 2 America , Christmas in Miami

Madge Sinclair Also starred in: I Will, I Will… For Now , Leadbelly , Convoy

Olivia Cole Also starred in: Brewster Place , Heroes (1977) , First Sunday

Leslie Uggams Also starred in: NANNY , Poor Pretty Eddie , Sugar Hill (1994)

Chuck Connors Also starred in: The Rifleman , Tourist Trap , Bunker of Blood 3: Death Heads: Brain Drain

Sandy Duncan Also starred in: The Cat from Outer Space , The Million Dollar Duck , Star Spangled Girl

Ben Vereen Also starred in: Pippin , Soldiers of Change , Time Out of Mind

Doug McClure Also starred in: Omega Syndrome , The Enemy Below , The Unforgiven

Lynne Moody Also starred in: Scream Blacula Scream , Knots Landing , Some Kind of Hero

Burl Ives Also starred in: Day if The Outlaw , Blast-Off , Uphill All the Way

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