Stacy Keach as Capt. Charles Butler McVay

Richard Thomas as Lieutenant Steven Scott

Steve Landesberg as Lipscombe

Don Harvey as Kinderman

Robert Cicchini as D'Angelo

David Caruso as Wilkes

Bob Gunton as Chaplain

Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa as Hashimoto

Jeffrey Nordling as Tasker

Tim Guinee as Dobson

Neil Giuntoli as Goldstein

Gordon Clapp as Elias

Joseph Carberry as Spilner

Dale Dye as Major Green

Carrie Snodgress as Louise McVay

Andrew Prine as Henshaw

Stacy Keach, Sr. as Charles McVay Sr.

John Hillner as Olinsky