Cast List

The following actors are featured in Roots

LeVar Burton Also starred in: Perception , Transformers: Rescue Bots , Battered

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

Georg Stanford Brown Also starred in: Tyler Perry's Madea's Tough Love , The Jesse Owens Story , House Party 2: The Pajama Jam! (1991)

Maya Angelou Also starred in: How to Make an American Quilt , Poetic Justice

Moses Gunn Also starred in: Amityville II: The Possession , Charlotte Forten's Mission , Ragtime

Thalmus Rasulala Also starred in: Blacula , Bucktown , Friday Foster

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

Cicely Tyson Also starred in: Jewel , Tyler Perry's Diary of a Mad Black Woman , Because of Winn-Dixie

O. J. Simpson Also starred in: Capricorn One , The Cassandra Crossing , The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!

Ralph Waite Also starred in: CHATO'S LAND , Cliffhanger , The Magnificent Seven Ride

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

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: Earthquake , Tight Spot , The Hard Man

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

Vic Morrow Also starred in: Treasure of Matecumbe , King Creole , Cimarron (1960)

John Amos Also starred in: Lock Up , Coming 2 America , Christmas in Miami

Madge Sinclair Also starred in: Coming To America , The Lion King , I Will, I Will… For Now

Olivia Cole Also starred in: Heroes (1977) , Some Kind of Hero , Big Shots (1987)

Leslie Uggams Also starred in: NANNY , The Ravine , Deadpool & Wolverine

Chuck Connors Also starred in: Old Yeller , Airplane II: The Sequel , Ride Beyond Vengence

Sandy Duncan Also starred in: Rock-A-Doodle , The Million Dollar Duck , The Cat from Outer Space

Ben Vereen Also starred in: Pippin , Time Out of Mind , Why Do Fools Fall In Love

Doug McClure Also starred in: Shenandoah , The People That Time Forgot , The House Where Evil Dwells

Lynne Moody Also starred in: A Fight for Jenny , Scream Blacula Scream , Some Kind of Hero

Burl Ives Also starred in: So Dear to My Heart , Desire Under the Elms , Summer Magic

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