Cast List

The following actors are featured in Roots

LeVar Burton Also starred in: The Jesse Owens Story , The Hunter , Ali

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

Georg Stanford Brown Also starred in: The Jesse Owens Story , The Comedians , House Party 2: The Pajama Jam! (1991)

Maya Angelou Also starred in: The Black Candle: A Kwanzaa Celebration , How to Make an American Quilt , Poetic Justice

Moses Gunn Also starred in: Amityville II: The Possession , The Women Of Brewster Place , Charlotte Forten's Mission

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 , A Fall from Grace , Sounder

O. J. Simpson Also starred in: The Towering Inferno , Capricorn One , The Cassandra Crossing

Ralph Waite Also starred in: The President's Man , Kid Blue , Ace Ventura: Pet Detective Jr.

Louis Gossett Jr. Also starred in: Carolina Skeletons , Not to Forget , A Fighting Man

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 , The Hard Man , Peyton Place

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

Vic Morrow Also starred in: Treasure of Matecumbe , 1990: The Bronx Warriors , 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: Leadbelly , Convoy , Coming to America

Olivia Cole Also starred in: The Women Of Brewster Place , The Sky Is Gray , Heroes (1977)

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: At the Earth's Core , Omega Syndrome , The People That Time Forgot

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

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

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