Richard Ben Cramer as Narrator (voice)

William Alland as Self

Thomas Anderson as Self

Peter Bogdanovich as Self

Jimmy Breslin as Self

Marion Davies as Self (archive footage)

Leonard de Paur as Self

Douglas Fairbanks Jr. as Self

Richard France as Self

William Randolph Hearst as Self (archive footage)

William Herz as Self

Sam Leve as Self

Norman Lloyd as Self

Nancy Loe as Self

Frank Mankiewicz as Self

Ruth Warrick as Self

Orson Welles as Self (archive footage)

Vern Whaley as Self

Robert Wise as Self

David McCullough as Self - Host of The American Experience