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

Janet Leigh

Self

Dennis Hopper

Self

Ossie Davis

Self

David McCullough

Self - Historian

Mickey Spillane

Self

Charles Champlin

Self

Paul Fussell

Self - Historian

David Halberstam

Self

Marty Glickman

Self

Julia Glut

Self

Henry Villard

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

Robert Towne

Self - Screenwriter

Hugh Hefner

Self - Publisher

Dick Clark

Self - American Bandstand Host

Buzz Aldrin

Self - Astronaut

Bunny Gibson

Self - American Bandstand Dancer

John Glenn

Self - Astronaut

Doris Kearns Goodwin

Self - Historian

George Stevens Jr.

Self - Film Director

E.L. Doctorow

Self

Julian Bond

Self - Civil Rights Activist

Pat Buchanan

Self - Presidential Speech Writer

Inge Deutschkron

Self - German Jew

Eudora Welty

Self

Alfred Lewis Levitt

Self

Sam Phillips

Self - Music Executive

Ted Francis

Interviewee

Lloyd Price

Self - Musician

Christopher Browning

Self - Historian

Tom Wicker

Self - Journalist

Marie-Claude Vaillant-Couturier

Self

Don Newcombe

Self

Steve McCormick

Self - Radio Announcer

Bill Bailey

Self

Egon Hanfstaengl

Self - Son Hitler Press Chief

Dennis Mannion

Self - Vietnam Vet

Neal Shine

Self - Newspaper Publisher

Carl Mydans

Self - WPA Photographer

Jeff Greenfield

Self - Journalist

Eileen Burns

Self

Bill Wilkinson

Self

Phil Caputo

Self - Vietnam Vet

Geoffrey Perret

Self

Walter Girardin

Self

Sam Darcy

Self

Thomas P. Hughes

Self

Julian Kulski

Self

Robert Trout

Self

Lucy Haessler

Self

Donald Walde

Self

Norman Vaughn

Self

Truman Springer

Self - Vietnam Vet

Joachim Von Elbe

Self - German Civilian

Leonard Garment

Self

William Collins

Self

Jack Trachsel

Self

John Milton Cooper

Self

Mabel Griep

Self

Lorine Hyer

Self

Marty Rosenblum

Self

Bob Jones

Self - Former Vietnam P.O.W.

Alice Sylvester

Self

Ernst Heller

Self

Nguyen Hung

Self - North Vietnam Soldier

Clara Hancox

Self

Harriet Osborn

Self

James Lackey

Self

William Leuchtenburg

Self

Peter Pechel

Self

Rita Hofrichter

Self

Doris Muscatine

Self

Marvin Belli

Self

Mary Gale

Self

Frank Bolden

Self

Robert Heide

Self

Lillian Hall Gerdau

Self

Ernest Green

Self - one of the Little Rock Nine

James San Jule

Self

Ray Moskow

Self - Former IBM Salesman

Ernest Michel

Self

Steve Schwartz

Self - Anti-War Archivist

Robert McIntosh

Self - WWII Veteran

Margaret MacLaury

Self - WWII Worker

Hal Lefcourt

Self

William Goehner

Self

Fred Reif

Self - German Jew

Ella Johnson

Self - WWII Welder

Stanley Brozek

Self

Hans J. Fabian

Self - German Jew

Andrew Jakomas

Self

Violet Vrooman

Self - Boeing Factory Worker

Zena Generalova

Self

Karla Stept

Self - Austrian Jew

Charles Muscatine

Self

Benjamin Meed

Self

Giles Ryan

Self

Corneal Davis

Self

Melba Beals

Self - one of the Little Rock Nine

Loomis Irish

Self - Television Executive

Anne Thompson

Self

Dave Moore

Self - Auto Worker

Margareta Fischer

Self

Craig Mitchell

Self

Thomas Burns

Self - AFL-CIO

Michael Matrinko

Self

Leon Ginsburg

Self

Gilbert Metz

Self

David Ginsburg

Self - assistant to FDR

Robert Lochner

Self

Miriam Johnson

Self

Babe Ruth

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

George Gershwin

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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

Edward R. Murrow

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

Duke Ellington

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

Hermann Göring

Self - at the nuremberg trials(archiveFootage)

Rudolf Hess

Self - at the nuremberg trials(archiveFootage)

Kate Smith

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

Kaiser Wilhelm II

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

William McKinley

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

V.I. Lenin

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

Woodrow Wilson

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

Hirohito

Self - atop his horse(archiveFootage)

Robin D.G. Kelley

Self

Neville Chamberlain

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

Herbert Hoover

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

Charles A. Lindbergh

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

Bessie Smith

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

William Jennings Bryan

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

John Thomas Scopes

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

Clarence Darrow

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

Ted Francis

Interviewee ("Shell Shock, 1914-1919")