Muhammad Ali

Gideon Jackson

Kris Kristofferson

Abner Lait

Ron O'Neal

Francis Cardoza

Edward Herrmann

Stephen Holmes

John McLiam

President Ulysses S. Grant

Ossie Davis

Narrator

Barbara O. Jones

Rachel Jackson (as Barbara-O Jones)

Sonny Jim Gaines

Brother Peter

Joel Fluellen

James Allenby

Jean Foster

Ellen Allenby

Grace Zabriskie

Ruth Lait

Bill Mackey

Trooper

Earl D.A. Smith

Hannibal

Alfre Woodard

Katie

Fred Covington

Sheriff Bentley

Ján Kadár