Cast List

The following actors are featured in Roots

LeVar Burton Also starred in: The Jesse Owens Story , Star Trek: The Next Generation , Star Trek: Picard

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 , Amityville II: The Possession , The Women Of Brewster Place

Thalmus Rasulala Also starred in: Bucktown, U.S.A. , Mr. Ricco , The Defiant Ones (1986)

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

Cicely Tyson Also starred in: Why Did I Get Married? , A Fall from Grace , Cherish the Day

O. J. Simpson Also starred in: Detour to Terror , The Towering Inferno , Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult

Ralph Waite Also starred in: The President's Man , Murder, She Wrote , The Waltons

Louis Gossett Jr. Also starred in: Carolina Skeletons , Diggstown , Why Did I Get Married?

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: Galactica 1980 , Battlestar Galactica (Original) , The Hard Man

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

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

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: The Women Of Brewster Place , Heroes (1977) , 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 , Time Out of Mind

Doug McClure Also starred in: The People That Time Forgot , At the Earth's Core , Omega Syndrome

Lynne Moody Also starred in: Knots Landing , Murder, She Wrote , Some Kind of Hero

Burl Ives Also starred in: Day if The Outlaw , Uphill All the Way , The Power and the Prize

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