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 , The Comedians , House Party 2: The Pajama Jam! (1991)

Maya Angelou Also starred in: The Ballad of Greenwich Village , The Black Candle , How to Make an American Quilt

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

Thalmus Rasulala Also starred in: Born American , The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman , Good Times

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

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

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

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

Louis Gossett Jr. Also starred in: Carolina Skeletons , On the Streets of LA , In His Father's Shoes

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

Lorne Greene ... Marshall Cole Also starred in: Earthquake , The Hard Man , Peyton Place

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

Vic Morrow Also starred in: Dirty Mary Crazy Larry , Evictors , Humanoids From The Deep

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: Leadbelly , Convoy , Coming to America

Olivia Cole Also starred in: The Women Of Brewster Place , Murder, She Wrote , Go Tell It on the Mountain

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

Chuck Connors Also starred in: The Rifleman , The Proud And The Damned , The Night They Took Miss Beautiful

Sandy Duncan Also starred in: Pinocchio , The Fox and the Hound , Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

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 , Murder, She Wrote , 21 Jump Street

Burl Ives Also starred in: Blast-Off , The McMasters , Little House on the Prairie

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