Ragtime (1981) Cast & Crew

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Directed by Miloš Forman.

Cast

James Cagney as New York Police Commissioner Rhinelander Waldo
Brad Dourif as Younger Brother
Moses Gunn as Booker T. Washington
Elizabeth McGovern as Evelyn Nesbit
Kenneth McMillan as Willie Conklin
Pat O'Brien as Delmas
Donald O'Connor as Evelyn's Dance Instructor
James Olson as Father
Mandy Patinkin as Tateh
Howard Rollins as Coalhouse Walker Jr.
Mary Steenburgen as Mother
Debbie Allen as Sarah
Jeffrey DeMunn as Harry Houdini
Robert Joy as Henry Thaw
Norman Mailer as Stanford White
Bruce Boa as Jerome
Hoolihand Burke as Brigit
Norman Chancer as Gent No. 1 - Agent
Edwin Cooper as Grandfather
Jeff Daniels as P.C. O'Donnell
Fran Drescher as Mameh
Frankie Faison as Gang Member No. 1
Hal Galili as Police Captain No. 1
Alan Gifford as Judge
Richard Griffiths as Delmas' Assistant No. 1
Samuel L. Jackson as Gang Member No. 2
Michael Jeter as Special Reporter
Calvin Levels as Gang Member No. 3
Bessie Love as Old Lady - T.O.C.
Christopher Malcolm as Police Captain No. 2
Herman Meckler as Vernon Elliott
Billy J. Mitchell as Delmas' Assistant No. 2
Jenny Nichols as Little Girl
Max Nichols as Little Boy
Zack Norman as Gent No. 2 - Manager
Eloise Taylor as Mrs. Thaw
Don Plumley as Inspector McNeil
Ted Ross as Black Lawyer
Dorsey Wright as Gang Member No. 4
Robert Arden as Foreman of the Jury

Crew

Miloš Forman — Director
E. L. Doctorow — Novel
Michael Weller — Screenplay
Dino De Laurentiis — Producer
Miroslav Ondříček — Director of Photography
Randy Newman — Original Music Composer

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