Jason Robards

as 'Cheyenne'

as Charles Wheeler

as Congressman Phillip Hammersley (uncredited)

as Earl Partridge

as Ben Bradlee

as Rear Admiral Anderson (uncredited)

as Frank Buckman

as General Walter C. Short

as Governor Wallace

as Dr. Russell Oakes

as Chief Rotzinger

as Joe's Father

as Lou Craddock

as The Newspaper Director (archive footage)

as Graham Keighley

as Cable Hogue

as Self (archive footage)

as Charles Halloway

as The King

as Dashiell Hammett

as Fitzcarraldo (archive footage)

as Coleman Ettinger

as Mr. Hardy (uncredited)

as Ulysses S. Grant (voice)

as Thomas Heywood

as Admiral James Sandecker

as Al Capone

as Mr. Bodwin

as Doc Holliday

as Henry Drummond

as Self

as Larry Cook

as Jamie Tyrone

as Jacob 'J.W.' Ewing

as Howard Hughes

as Max Dugan

as Cesar Charron

as Self - Narrator (voice)

as Walter Travis

as Narrator (voice)

as President Ulysses S. Grant

as (voice)

as General R. Pendleton Lloyd

as Gunther Beckdorff

as Grandfather

as Marcus Brutus

as Paris Singer

as Doctor Huld

as Murray

as W. O. Muth

as Stephen Kozlenko

as Self - Mystery Guest

as Raymond Paine

as Paul Kedes

as Nelson Downes

as Henry Strauss

as Dillard

as Self

as Self - Guest

as Self (archive footage)

as Clifford Fowler

as Ben Bradlee (archive footage)

as Self - Brigham Young

as John Cleves

as Capt. Charles Bruckner

as Self

as Joe's Father (video "One")

as Dr. Armand Hammer

as Will Varner

as Frank Cameron

as Alvin Binder

as Self (archive footage)

as Dick Diver

as Grandpa Girdis

as Mark Twain

as Harry Drummond

as Julius Penrose

as Robert Jordan

as Self (archive footage)

as James "Jamie" Mills

as Narrator (voice)

as Self (archive footage)

as Elliot Brent

as Self

as John Tanner

as Dr. Rank

as Joe Grant

as Self

as Wade Shephard

as Self

as Doctor Huld

as Performer

as Logan Reeser

as James "Jamie" Mills

as President Abraham Lincoln

as Col. Carter

as Royal Earle Thompson

as George S. Kaufman

as Narrator (voice)

as Marcus

as Royal Earle Thompson

as Self

as Jules Mendelson

as Matthew South

as President Franklin D. Roosevelt

as Charles Barton

as President Richard Monckton

as Ed Stenning

as Self

as Josea Burden

as Leland Hayward

as Sam Armstrong

as Self

as John Gwilt

as James "Jamie" Mills

as James "Jamie" Mills

as Lloyd Wells

as Abraham Lincoln

as James Tyrone Jr.

as Andrei Sakharov

as Daniel Larson

as Inspector Barkan

as Detective Anderson

as Dr. Rank

as Stephan Kovacs

as Self / Narrator

as Großvater

as Passage Narrator (voice)

as Bert Palmer

as Self - Narrator (voice)

as Clay (voice)

as Narrator

as Frank Elgin

as Self - Narrator (voice)

as Narrator (voice)

as (voice)

as Robert Jordan

as Self

as Grandpa Martin Vanderhof

as Narrator

as Jason Robards

as Narrator

as Erie Smith

as Self - Host

as Theodore "Hickey" Hickman