Burt Lancaster as Gen. Lawrence Dell

Roscoe Lee Browne as James Forrest

Charles Durning as President David T. Stevens

Joseph Cotten as Arthur Renfrew - Secretary of State

Melvyn Douglas as Zachariah Guthrie

Richard Jaeckel as Capt. Stanford Towne

William Marshall as William Klinger - Attorney General

Gerald S. O'Loughlin as Brig. Gen. O'Rourke

Richard Widmark as Gen. Martin MacKenzie - Commanding General SA

Paul Winfield as Willis Powell

Burt Young as Augie Garvas

Charles Aidman as Bernstein

Leif Erickson as Ralph Whittaker - CIA Director

Charles McGraw as Air Force Gen. Peter Crane

Morgan Paull as First Lt. Louis Cannellis

Simon Scott as Gen. Phil Spencer - Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

William Smith as Hoxey

William Hootkins as Sgt. Fitzpatrick

Bill Walker as Willard

David Baxt as Sgt. Willard

Glenn Beck as Lieutenant

John Ratzenberger as Sgt. Kopecki

Shane Rimmer as Col. Franklin

Don Fellows as Gen. Stonesifer

Phil Brown as Rev. Cartwright

Ed Bishop as Maj. Fox

Gary Cockrell as Capt. Jackson

David Healy as Maj. Winters

Robert O'Neil as Briefing Officer

Robert MacLeod as State Trooper Chambers

Lionel Murton as Col. Horn

Garrick Hagon as Alfie/Driver