The Eighties (2016) | Full Cast

H.W. Brands

Self - Author, 'Reagan: A Life'

Chris Connelly

Self - Reporter, ESPN

Gil Troy

Self - Author, 'Morning in America'

Tom Hanks

Self - Actor

Lesley Stahl

Self - Fmr White House Correspondent, CBS News

Douglas Brinkley

Author and Historian

Pat Buchanan

Self - Fmr White House Communications Director

James Baker III

Self - Fmr White House Chief of Staff

Steven Hayward

Self - Author, 'The Age of Reagan'

Phil Donahue

Self - The Phil Donahue Show

Martha Quinn

Self - Fmr MTV VJ

Downtown Julie Brown

Self - Fmr MTV VJ

Colin Powell

Self - Fmr National Security Advisor

Judy Woodruff

Self - Fmr White House Correspondent, NBC News

Mark J. Goodman

Self - MTV VJ

John Heilemann

Self - Bloomberg Politics

Robin Wright

Self - Contributing Writer, The New Yorker

Evan Thomas

Self - Author and Historian

David Bianculli

Self - Television Critic, 'Fresh Air'

Ken Auletta

Self - Author, 'Greed and Glory on Wall Street'

Jeff Greenfield

Self - Journalist

Tim Naftali

Self - Author and Historian

Renee Graham

Self - Columnist, 'The Boston Globe'

Julian Zelizer

Self - Professor of History, Princeton University

Michael Mann

Self - Executive Producer, 'Miami Vice'

Mark Harmon

Self - Actor

Shelley Long

Actor, 'Cheers'

Mike Farrell

Self - Actor, 'M*A*S*H'

Patrick Duffy

Actor, 'Dallas'

Susanna Hoffs

Self - Musician, The Bangles

Penelope Spheeris

Self - Filmmaker

James Burrows

Executive producer and co-creator, 'Cheers'

Graham Yost

Self - Executive producer and creator, 'Justified'

Questlove

Self - Musician and Record Producer

Nancy Wilson

Self - Heart

Steven Bochco

Self - Co-Creator, 'Hill Street Blues'

Ted Turner

Self - Founder, CNN

Mary Hart

Self - Fmr Host, Entertainment Tonight

Nile Rodgers

Self - Music Producer

Andrew Ross Sorkin

Self - Columnist, New York Times

David Steinberg

Self - Comedian

Wendy Melvoin

Self - Guitarist, Prince and the Revolution

Chuck D

Self - MC, Public Enemy

Ed Lover

Self

Ann Wilson

Self - Musician, Heart

Diane English

Self - Creator, 'Murphy Brown'

Nelson George

Self - Author and Filmmaker

Ken Levine

Self - Writer, 'M*A*S*H'

Wendy Girard

Marion Hammond

Larry Kramer

Co-founder, Act Up

David Wild

Self - Reporter

Bethany McLean

Self - Contributing Editor, Vanity Fair

Rakim

Self

Ed Catmull

Self - Pixar and Disney Animation Studios

Jay McInerney

Self - Author, 'Brights Lights, Big City'

Caryn Mandabach

Self - Producer, 'The Cosby Show'

Anthony Fauci

Self

Nolan Bushnell

Self

David France

Self - Director, How to Survive a Plague

Pat Mitchell

CEO, PBS

Barbara Corday

Self - Co-creator, 'Cagney & Lacey'

Mark Halperin

Self - Managing Editor, Bloomberg Politics

Gillian Tett

Self - U.S. Managing Editor, Financial Times

Doug Macrae

Self

Barney Frank

Self - Fmr Congressman, (D) Ma

David Pogue

Self

Richard O. Covey

Self

David E. Hoffman

Self - Contributing Editor, Washington Post

Stewart Cheifet

Self

Joel Peresman

Self - President, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

Phill Wilson

AMFAR Member

Martin Cooper

Self

Bryan Burrough

Self - Author, 'Barbarians at the Gate'

Richard Reeves

Self - Author, 'President Reagan: The Triumph of Imagination'

Peter Staley

Self - AIDS Activist

Tom Shales

Self - Television Critic

Ken Adelman

Self - Fmr Dir, U.S. Arms Control & Disarmament Agency

Harold Jaffe

Self - Centers for Disease Control (as Dr. Harold Jaffe)

Lori Majewski

Self - Author, Mad World

Henry Waxman

Self - Fmr Congressman, (D) California

James B. Stewart

Self - Author, 'Den of Thieves'

Joe Nocera

Self - Columnist, New York Times

Cleve Jones

Creator, AIDS Memorial Quilt

Mathilde Krim

Self - Co-founder, AMFAR (as Dr. Mathilde Krim)

Alan Kay

Self

William Black

Self - Fmr Counsel, Federal Home Loan Bank Board

Allan Sloan

Self - Journalist, Forbes

Jane Mayer

Self - Fmr Reporter, Wall Street Journal

Victor Sebestyen

Self - Author, 'Revolution 1989'

David Gergen

Self - Former White House Communications Director

Jeanne White

Self - Mother of Ryan White (as Jeanne White-Ginder)

Doyle McManus

Self - Co-author, 'Landslide: The Unmaking of the President'

Mervyn Silverman

Fmr President, AMFAR (as Dr. Mervyn Silverman)

Lou Cannon

Self - Author, 'President Reagan: The Role of a Lifetime'

John Poindexter

Self - Fmr National Security Advisor

Paul Shafer

Self - Musical director, 'Late Night with David Letterman'

Robert Gallo

Self - National Cancer Institute

Robert Service

Self - Author, 'Comrades: A World History of Communism'

Jack F. Matlock Jr.

Self - Fmr U.S. Ambassador to the U.S.S.R.

Michael Dobbs

Self - Author, 'Down with Big Brother'

David Ensor

Self - ABC News

Linda Holmes

Self - Pop Culture Happy Hour, NPR

Michael Specter

Self - Staff Writer, The New Yorker

James Curran

Self - Centers for Disease Control (as Dr. James Curran)

Sharron Lovejoy

Self

Frank Buzzard

Self

James Mann

Self - Author, 'The Rebellion of President Reagan'

Donald Francis

Self - Centers for Disease Control

Kevin Maney

Self

Stephen Pizzo

Self - Author, 'Inside Job'