Roots

John Amos

Older Kunta Kinte

Madge Sinclair

Bell Reynolds

LeVar Burton

Kunta Kinte

Olivia Cole

Mathilda

Ben Vereen

Chicken George Moore

Robert Reed

Dr. William Reynolds

Louis Gossett Jr.

Fiddler

Lynda Day George

Mrs. Reynolds

Leslie Uggams

Kizzy Reynolds / Kizzy Reynolds Moore

Ji-Tu Cumbuka

Wrestler

Chuck Connors

Tom Moore

Ed Asner

Capt. Thomas Davies / Thomas Davies

Lorne Greene

John Reynolds

Ralph Waite

Slater

Ren Woods

Fanta

Tanya Boyd

Genelva

Thayer David

Harlan

Cicely Tyson

Binta

Carolyn Jones

Mrs. Moore

O. J. Simpson

Kadi Touray

Maya Angelou

Nyo Boto

Moses Gunn

Kintango

Thalmus Rasulala

Omoro

Hari Rhodes

Brima Cesay

William Watson

Gardner

Ernest Lee Thomas

Kailuba

Paul Shenar

John Carrington

Tina Andrews

Aurelia

Sandy Duncan

Missy Anne Reynolds

Richard Roundtree

Sam Bennett

Macdonald Carey

Squire James

Scatman Crothers

Mingo

George Hamilton

Stephen Bennett

Ian McShane

Sir Eric Russell

Pat Corley

Referee

Macon McCalman

Poston

Robert Phalen

Rufus Jackson

Wayne Heffley

Telegrapher

Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs

Noah

John Schuck

Ordell

Brion James

Slaver

Richard Farnsworth

Trumbull

Raymond St. Jacques

The Drummer

Lee de Broux

Trumbull

Allen Williams

Robert Calvert

Vic Morrow

Ames

Charles Cyphers

Fred Drake