The Century: America's Time (1999) | Full Cast

Roger Goodman

DIRECTOR

Peter Jennings

Self - Host-Narrator

Neil Simon

Self

John Updike

Self - Author

Stephen Ambrose

Self - Historian

Henry Metelmann

Self

Dennis Hopper

Self

Janet Leigh

Self

Ossie Davis

Self

Mickey Spillane

Self

David McCullough

Self - Historian

Charles Champlin

Self

Marty Glickman

Self

David Halberstam

Self

Paul Fussell

Self - Historian

Henry Villard

Self

Julia Glut

Self

Martin Scorsese

Self - Interviewee

Oliver Stone

Self - Vietnam Vet

Robert Mitchum

Self - Interviewee

Lee Grant

Self - Actress

Carl Reiner

Self - TV Writer

Sid Caesar

Self

Hugh Hefner

Self - Publisher

Robert Towne

Self - Screenwriter

Dick Clark

Self - American Bandstand Host

Buzz Aldrin

Self - Astronaut

Doris Kearns Goodwin

Self - Historian

John Glenn

Self - Astronaut

George Stevens Jr.

Self - Film Director

Julian Bond

Self - Civil Rights Activist

Bunny Gibson

Self - American Bandstand Dancer

Pat Buchanan

Self - Presidential Speech Writer

E.L. Doctorow

Self

Lloyd Price

Self - Musician

Alfred Lewis Levitt

Self

Eudora Welty

Self

Sam Phillips

Self - Music Executive

Phil Caputo

Self - Vietnam Vet

Jeff Greenfield

Self - Journalist

Robert Trout

Self

Bill Wilkinson

Self

Ernest Green

Self - one of the Little Rock Nine

Eileen Burns

Self

William Leuchtenburg

Self

Tom Wicker

Self - Journalist

Egon Hanfstaengl

Self - Son Hitler Press Chief

Neal Shine

Self - Newspaper Publisher

Marie-Claude Vaillant-Couturier

Self

Ted Francis

Interviewee

Steve McCormick

Self - Radio Announcer

Inge Deutschkron

Self - German Jew

Clara Hancox

Self

Carl Mydans

Self - WPA Photographer

Bob Jones

Self - Former Vietnam P.O.W.

Peter Pechel

Self

Leonard Garment

Self

Miriam Johnson

Self

James San Jule

Self

Nguyen Hung

Self - North Vietnam Soldier

Christopher Browning

Self - Historian

Mary Gale

Self

Thomas P. Hughes

Self

Charles Muscatine

Self

Corneal Davis

Self

Julian Kulski

Self

David Ginsburg

Self - assistant to FDR

Doris Muscatine

Self

Joachim Von Elbe

Self - German Civilian

Craig Mitchell

Self

Loomis Irish

Self - Television Executive

Norman Vaughn

Self

Hal Lefcourt

Self

Frank Bolden

Self

John Milton Cooper

Self

Robert Heide

Self

Mabel Griep

Self

Benjamin Meed

Self

Robert McIntosh

Self - WWII Veteran

Don Newcombe

Self

Violet Vrooman

Self - Boeing Factory Worker

Alice Sylvester

Self

Rita Hofrichter

Self

James Lackey

Self

Jack Trachsel

Self

Stanley Brozek

Self

Ernest Michel

Self

Hans J. Fabian

Self - German Jew

Thomas Burns

Self - AFL-CIO

Anne Thompson

Self

Zena Generalova

Self

Margareta Fischer

Self

William Collins

Self

Steve Schwartz

Self - Anti-War Archivist

Michael Matrinko

Self

Lillian Hall Gerdau

Self

Lorine Hyer

Self

Dave Moore

Self - Auto Worker

Sam Darcy

Self

Giles Ryan

Self

Karla Stept

Self - Austrian Jew

Ella Johnson

Self - WWII Welder

Walter Girardin

Self

Harriet Osborn

Self

William Goehner

Self

Bill Bailey

Self

Donald Walde

Self

Melba Beals

Self - one of the Little Rock Nine

Margaret MacLaury

Self - WWII Worker

Marty Rosenblum

Self

Geoffrey Perret

Self

Robert Lochner

Self

Andrew Jakomas

Self

Marvin Belli

Self

Ernst Heller

Self

Leon Ginsburg

Self

Lucy Haessler

Self

Truman Springer

Self - Vietnam Vet

Dennis Mannion

Self - Vietnam Vet

Ray Moskow

Self - Former IBM Salesman

Gilbert Metz

Self

Fred Reif

Self - German Jew

George Gershwin

Self ("Boom to Bust - 1920-1929")archiveFootage

Babe Ruth

Self ("Boom to Bust - 1920-1929")archiveFootage

V.I. Lenin

Self ("Shell Shock, 1914-1919")archiveFootage

Duke Ellington

Self ("Boom to Bust - 1920-1929")archiveFootage

Theodore Roosevelt

Self ("Shell Shock, 1914-1919")archiveFootage

Kate Smith

Self ("Over the Edge, 1936-1941")archiveFootage

Hermann Göring

Self - at the nuremberg trialsarchiveFootage

Kaiser Wilhelm II

Self ("Shell Shock, 1914-1919")archiveFootage

Hirohito

Self - atop his horsearchiveFootage

Edward R. Murrow

Self ("Civilians at War, 1941-1945")archiveFootage

Charles A. Lindbergh

Self ("Boom to Bust - 1920-1929")archiveFootage

Bessie Smith

Self ("Boom to Bust - 1920-1929")archiveFootage

Rudolf Hess

Self - at the nuremberg trialsarchiveFootage

Robin D.G. Kelley

Self

Neville Chamberlain

Self ("Over the Edge, 1936-1941")archiveFootage

Woodrow Wilson

Self ("Shell Shock, 1914-1919")archiveFootage

Herbert Hoover

Self ("Boom to Bust" - 1920-1929 and "Stormy Weather", 1930-1935)archiveFootage

John Thomas Scopes

Self ("Boom to Bust - 1920-1929")archiveFootage

William McKinley

Self ("Shell Shock, 1914-1919")archiveFootage

William Jennings Bryan

Self ("Boom to Bust - 1920-1929")archiveFootage

Clarence Darrow

Self ("Boom to Bust - 1920-1929")archiveFootage

Ted Francis

Interviewee ("Shell Shock, 1914-1919")