Cast List

The following actors are featured in Roots

LeVar Burton Also starred in: The Jesse Owens Story , Butterfly in the Sky , Star Trek VIII: First Contact

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: The Jesse Owens Story , The Comedians , Shackles

Maya Angelou Also starred in: The Black Candle: A Kwanzaa Celebration , Tyler Perry's Madea's Family Reunion , Elmo Saves Christmas

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

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

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

Cicely Tyson Also starred in: The Comedians , Fried Green Tomatoes , Tyler Perry's Diary of a Mad Black Woman

O. J. Simpson Also starred in: Detour to Terror , The Towering Inferno , No Place to Hide

Ralph Waite Also starred in: The President's Man , The Magnificent Seven Ride , The Stone Killer

Louis Gossett Jr. Also starred in: Firewalker , Carolina Skeletons , Not to Forget

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 , Chisum , Day of the Animals

Vic Morrow Also starred in: Cimarron (1960) , It's a Dog's Life , Humanoids from the Deep

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: Heroes (1977) , First Sunday , Some Kind of Hero

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 , Idlewild

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

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

Burl Ives Also starred in: Blast Off , Uphill All the Way , The Power and the Prize

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