Faye Dunaway

Diana Christensen

William Holden

Max Schumacher

Peter Finch

Howard Beale

Robert Duvall

Frank Hackett

Ned Beatty

Arthur Jensen

Beatrice Straight

Louise Schumacher

Wesley Addy

Nelson Chaney

Arthur Burghardt

Great Ahmed Kahn

Bill Burrows

TV Director

Jordan Charney

Harry Hunter

Kathy Cronkite

Mary Ann Gifford

Conchata Ferrell

Barbara Schlesinger

Gene Gross

Milton K. Steinman

Stanley Grover

Jack Snowden

Cindy Grover

Caroline Schumacher

Darryl Hickman

Bill Herron

Paul Jenkins

TV Stage Manager

Ken Kercheval

Merrill Grant

Kenneth Kimmins

Associate Producer

Michael Lombard

Willie Stein

Pirie MacDonald

Herb Thackeray

Roy Poole

Sam Haywood

William Prince

Edward George Ruddy

Sasha von Scherler

Helen Miggs

Lane Smith

Robert McDonough

Ted Sorel

Giannini

Fred Stuthman

Mosaic Figure

Marlene Warfield

Laureen Hobbs

Lee Richardson

Narrator (voice)

Lance Henriksen

Network Lawyer at Khan's Place (uncredited)

Andrew Duncan

Agent (uncredited)

John Gabriel

TV Anchor Reporting Beale's Suicide Threat (uncredited)

Raymond Martino

Window Person (uncredited)

Michael Tucker

Man at Desk (uncredited)

John Chancellor

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Walter Cronkite

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Betty Ford

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Gerald Ford

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

David Susskind

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)