Cast List

The following actors are featured in Roots

LeVar Burton Also starred in: Battered , And the Children Shall Lead , Captain Planet and the Planeteers

Ed Asner Also starred in: Sam Cade , The Cops Are Robbers , Gone in the Night - Part 1

Georg Stanford Brown Also starred in: The Jesse Owens Story , The Comedians , Shackles

Maya Angelou Also starred in: The Ballad of Greenwich Village , The Black Candle , How to Make an American Quilt

Moses Gunn Also starred in: Amazing Grace , The House of Dies Drear , Brother Future

Thalmus Rasulala Also starred in: BLACULA , The Defiant Ones (1986) , Born American

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

Cicely Tyson Also starred in: The Haunting in Connecticut 2: Ghosts of Georgia , The Trip to Bountiful , Alex Cross

O. J. Simpson Also starred in: O.J.: Made in America , Detour to Terror , The Towering Inferno

Ralph Waite Also starred in: Angel City , The President's Man , Kid Blue

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: Day of the Animals , Beyond Evil , Mission Impossible

Vic Morrow Also starred in: Humanoids From The Deep , King Creole , Cimarron (1960)

John Amos Also starred in: Two Evil Eyes (Restored Version) , TV in Black: The First Fifty Years , Coming 2 America

Madge Sinclair Also starred in: Alex Haley’s Queen , I Will, I Will… For Now , Leadbelly

Olivia Cole Also starred in: Heroes , Go Tell It on the Mountain , Brewster Place

Leslie Uggams Also starred in: Dotty & Soul , The Ravine , NANNY

Chuck Connors Also starred in: The Rifleman , The Night They Took Miss Beautiful , Tourist Trap

Sandy Duncan Also starred in: The Best of Flip Wilson , Pinocchio , Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Ben Vereen Also starred in: Amy's Victory Dance , Pippin , Law & Order: Criminal Intent

Doug McClure Also starred in: Satan's Triangle , The Fall Guy , Omega Syndrome

Lynne Moody Also starred in: A Fight for Jenny , Scream Blacula Scream , Knots Landing

Burl Ives Also starred in: Day if The Outlaw , Blast-Off , The McMasters

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