Cast List

The following actors are featured in Roots

LeVar Burton Also starred in: Battered , Reading Rainbow , And the Children Shall Lead

Ed Asner Also starred in: Sam Cade , Kate's Secret , The Cops Are Robbers

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

Maya Angelou Also starred in: The Ballad of Greenwich Village , The Black Candle , Poetic Justice

Moses Gunn Also starred in: Amazing Grace , The House of Dies Drear , The Women Of Brewster Place

Thalmus Rasulala Also starred in: Bucktown, U.S.A. , Born American , The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman

Ren Woods Also starred in: Youngblood (1978) , Car Wash , The Brother from Another Planet

Cicely Tyson Also starred in: The Blue Bird , The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman , The River Niger

O. J. Simpson Also starred in: O.J.: Made in America , The Klansman , The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!

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

Louis Gossett Jr. Also starred in: Carolina Skeletons , Diggstown , On the Streets of LA

Robert Reed Also starred in: Murder, She Wrote , Hunter , Father Knows Best

Lorne Greene ... Marshall Cole Also starred in: Galactica 1980 , Battlestar Galactica (Original) , Heidi's Song

Lynda Day George Also starred in: Day of the Animals , Pieces , Beyond Evil

Vic Morrow Also starred in: Humanoids From The Deep , 1990: The Bronx Warriors , Twilight Zone: The Movie

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 , Coming to America

Olivia Cole Also starred in: The Women Of Brewster Place , Brewster Place , Murder, She Wrote

Leslie Uggams Also starred in: Dotty & Soul , NANNY , New Amsterdam

Chuck Connors Also starred in: Good Morning, Miss Dove , The Rifleman , The Proud And The Damned

Sandy Duncan Also starred in: Pinocchio , Law & Order: Special Victims Unit , ALF

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

Doug McClure Also starred in: Play The Men From Shiloh , Satan's Triangle , The Fall Guy

Lynne Moody Also starred in: A Fight for Jenny , 21 Jump Street , The Evil

Burl Ives Also starred in: Day if The Outlaw , The McMasters , Little House on the Prairie

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