Gene Hackman as Agent Rupert Anderson

Willem Dafoe as Agent Alan Ward

Frances McDormand as Mrs. Pell

Brad Dourif as Deputy Clinton Pell

R. Lee Ermey as Mayor Tilman

Gailard Sartain as Sheriff Stuckey

Stephen Tobolowsky as Townley

Michael Rooker as Frank Bailey

Pruitt Taylor Vince as Lester Cowens

Badja Djola as Agent Monk

Kevin Dunn as Agent Bird

Frankie Faison as Eulogist

Thomas B. Mason as Judge (as Tom Mason)

Geoffrey Nauffts as Goatee

Rick Zieff as Passenger

Christopher White as Black Passenger

Gladys Greer as Hattie

Jake Gipson as Mose

Dianne Lancaster as Waitress

Stanley W. Collins as Hollis

Daniel Winford as Fennis

Marc Clement as Floyd Swilley

Larry Shuler as Earl Cooke

Stephen Bridgewater as Wesley Cooke

Bob Penny as Curtis Foy

James F. Moore as Barber

Park Overall as Connie

Georgia F. Wise as Beauty Parlor Woman 1

Lois Allen as Beauty Parlor Woman 2

Barry Davis Jim, Sr. as Choctaw Man

Dan Desmond as Television Commentator (voice)

Darius McCrary as Aaron Williams

Lou Walker as Vertis Williams

Billie Jean Young as Mrs. Williams

Alisa R. Patrick as Church Soloist

Barbara Gibson as Church Soloist

Pat Funderburk as Pell Maid

Tobin Bell as Agent Stokes

Mark Jeffrey Miller as Fire Bomber

John P. Fertitta as T.V. Commentator

Charles Franzen as Interviewer & Reporter

Tonea Stewart as Mrs. Walker

Robert F. Colesberry as Cameraman

Frederick Zollo as Reporter

Ron De Roxtra as Reporter

Doug Jackson as Reporter

Gary Moody as Reporter

Robert Erickson as Reporter

Ed Geldart as Fire Bomber

Mert Hatfield as Fire Bomber

James Eric as Fire Bomber

Daniel Chapman as Agent MacMillan

Rick Washburn as Agent Brodsky

Robert Glaudini as Agent Nash

Ken Magee as Agent Reilly

Paul Henderson as Local #1 (uncredited)

Ralph Pruitt Vaughn as Peckerwood (uncredited)

Jesse Merle Speaks as Pecan Vendor

Simeon Teague as Obie Walker

Brenda Dunlap as Mrs. Cowens

E.A. Thrall as Agent Tubbs

Kenneth Magee as Agent Reilly