Roddy McDowall

Character: Narrator (voice)

Marc Wanamaker

Character: Self

Christopher Sanders

Character:

Joy Noe

Character: Mary Pickford

Allan Viner

Character:

L. Michael Wells

Character:

Richard Barthelmess

Character: The Yellow Man (archive footage)

Charlie Chaplin

Character: Self / Various roles (archive footage)

Billy Compton

Character: Self (archive footage)

Jack Dempsey

Character: Self (archive footage)

George Eastman

Character: Self (archive footage)

Thomas A. Edison

Character: Self (archive footage)

Douglas Fairbanks Jr.

Character: Self

Douglas Fairbanks

Character: Self (archive footage)

Lillian Gish

Character: Lucy - The Girl (archive footage)

D.W. Griffith

Character: Self (archive footage)

Robert Harron

Character: Self (archive footage)

Florence Lawrence

Character: Self (archive footage)

Mabel Normand

Character: Self (archive footage)

Mary Pickford

Character: Self / Various roles (archive footage)

Eugen Sandow

Character: Self (archive footage)

Mack Swain

Character: Big Jim McKay (archive footage)

Henry B. Walthall

Character: Col. Ben Cameron (archive footage)