肯尼思·布拉纳
Kenneth Branagh
饰：Narrator
史蒂文·斯皮尔伯格
Steven Spielberg
饰：Himself,interviewee
马丁·斯科塞斯
Martin Scorsese
饰：Himself,interviewee
Frank Coghlan Jr.
饰：Himself (as Junior Coughlan)
佩吉·贝比
Peggy Baby
饰：Herself,interviewee (as Diana Serra Cary)
安吉拉·兰斯伯瑞
Angela Brigid Lansbury
饰：Herself,interviewee
亨利·哈撒韦
KHenry Hathaway
饰：Himself,interviewee (1976 interview)
A·阿诺德·吉莱斯皮
A. Arnold Gillespie
饰：Himself,interviewee (1976 interview)
Agnes de Mille
饰：Herself (1976 interview)
Cecilia DeMille Presley
Cecilia DeMille Presley
饰：Herself,interviewee
塞缪尔·戈尔德温
Samuel Goldwyn
饰：Himself,interviewee (1959 interview)
Betty Lasky
饰：Herself,interviewee
塞西尔·B·戴米尔
Cecil B. DeMille
饰：Himself (archive footage)
Robert S. Birchard
饰：Himself,interviewee
查理·卓别林
Charles Chaplin
饰：Himself (archive footage)
道格拉斯·范朋克
Douglas Fairbanks
饰：Himself (archive footage)
玛丽·毕克馥
Mary Pickford
饰：Herself (archive footage)
Richard de Mille
Richard de Mille
饰：Himself,interviewee
葛洛丽亚·斯旺森
Gloria Swanson
饰：Herself,interviewee (1976 and 1981 interviews)
James D'Arc
James D'Arc
饰：Himself,interviewee
小杰西·拉斯基
Jesse Lasky Jr.
饰：Himself,interviewee (1981 interview)
简妮·麦克弗森
Jeanie Macpherson
饰：Herself (archive footage)
华莱士·里德
Wallace Reid
饰：Himself (archive footage)
约瑟夫·M·申克
Joseph M. Schenck
饰：Himself (archive footage)
路易斯·B·梅耶
Louis B. Mayer
饰：Himself (archive footage)
迈克尔·D·穆尔
Michael D. Moore
饰：Himself,interviewee (as Mickey Moore)
大卫·格里菲斯
D.W. Griffith
饰：Himself (archive footage)
约瑟夫·纽曼
Joseph M. Newman
饰：Himself,interviewee (as Joseph Newman)
阿道夫·朱克
Adolph Zukor
饰：Himself (archive footage)
A.C. Lyles
饰：Himself,interviewee
Lisa Mitchell
饰：Herself,interviewee
亨利·威尔克松
Henry Wilcoxon
饰：Himself (archive footage)
维克多·米尔纳
Victor Milner
饰：Himself (archive footage)
埃尔默·伯恩斯坦
Elmer Bernstein
饰：Himself,interviewee
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
饰：Himself (archive footage)
埃德加·胡佛
J. Edgar Hoover
饰：Himself (archive footage)
查尔顿·赫斯顿
Charlton Heston
饰：Himself,interviewee
爱德华·迪麦特雷克
Edward Dmytryk
饰：Himself (archive footage)
赫尔倍特·J·比勃尔曼
Herbert J. Biberman
饰：Himself (archive footage)
约翰·霍华德·劳森
John Howard Lawson
饰：Himself (archive footage)
哈里·S·杜鲁门
Harry S. Truman
饰：Himself (archive footage)
约瑟夫·L·曼凯维奇
Joseph Leo Mankiewicz
饰：Himself,interviewee (1985 interview) (as Joseph Mankiewicz)
罗伯特·怀斯
Robert Wise
饰：Himself,interviewee (1985 interview)
罗伯特·帕里什
Robert Parrish
饰：Himself,interviewee (1981 interview)
安妮·鲍切恩斯
Anne Bauchens
饰：Herself (archive footage) (as Ann Bauchens)
贾迈勒·阿卜杜·纳赛尔
Gamal Abdel Nasser
饰：Himself (archive footage)
帕特·穆尔
Pat Moore
饰：Himself
Baby Peggy
饰：自己
肯尼思·布拉纳
Kenneth Branagh
饰：自己
富兰克林·德拉诺·罗斯福
Franklin D. Roosevelt
饰：Self, (archive footage) (as Franklin Delano Roosevelt)