New York: A Documentary Film (1999) | Full Cast

Ric Burns

DIRECTOR

David Ogden Stiers

Narrator

Kenneth Jackson

Self - Commentator

Mike Wallace

ACTOR

Mike Wallace

ACTOR

John Steele Gordon

Self - Commentator

Robert A.M. Stern

Self - Commentator

Pete Hamill

Self - Commentator

Philip Bosco

ACTOR

Mike Wallace

Self - Commentator

Brendan Gill

Self - Commentator

Eli Wallach

ACTOR

George Plimpton

ACTOR

David McCullough

Self - Commentator

Luc Sante

Self - Commentator

Robert A. Caro

Self - Commentator

Craig Steven Wilder

Self - Commentator

Calvin O. Butts III

Self - Commentator

Alfred Kazin

Self - Commentator

Keith David

ACTOR

Paul Giamatti

ACTOR

Callie Thorne

ACTOR

Fran Lebowitz

Self - Commentator

Rudy Giuliani

Self - Commentator

Robert Sean Leonard

ACTOR

Peter Quinn

Self - Commentator

Daniel Czitrom

Self - Commentator

Spalding Gray

Self - Comentator

Allen Ginsberg

Self - Commentator

Carol Willis

Self - Commentator

David Levering Lewis

Self - Commentator

Marshall Berman

Self - Commentator

Josh Hamilton

ACTOR

Frances Sternhagen

ACTOR

James Hazeldine

ACTOR

Caleb Carr

Self - Commentator

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Self - Commentator

John Kuo Wei Tchen

Self - Commentator

Phillip Lopate

Self - Commentator

Joshua Freeman

Self - Commentator

Janeane Garofalo

ACTOR

Harris Yulin

ACTOR

Frederic Kimball

ACTOR

Carol Berkin

Self - Commentator

Margo Jefferson

Self - Commentator

Ruth J. Abram

Self - Commentator

David Margulies

ACTOR

Gretchen Sullivan Sorin

Self - Commentator

Thomas Bender

Self - Commentator

Susan Sarandon

ACTOR

Donald Trump Jr.

Self - Commentator

Ed Koch

Self - Commentator

Bella Abzug

Self - Commentator

Anna Quindlen

Self - Commentator

Frances Goldin

Self - Commentator

Cheryl Greenberg

Self - Commentator

Ada Louise Huxtable

Self - Commentator

Ray Suarez

Self - Commentator

Martin Scorsese

Self - Commentator

Joan Allen

ACTOR

Donald Trump

Self - Commentator

Joe Morton

ACTOR

Ron Silver

ACTOR

Tony Kushner

Self - Commentator

Frank McCourt

ACTOR

E.L. Doctorow

Self - Commentator

Andrei Codrescu

ACTOR

Marlena Grzaslewicz

ACTOR

Jean Strouse

Self - Commentator

Kathy Peiss

Self - Commentator

Joel Silverman

Self - Commentator

Nancy Groce

Self - Commentator

Isaiah Sheffer

ACTOR

Ann Douglas

Self - Commentator

Christine Stansell

Self - Commentator

Joshua Freeman

Self - Commentator

Michael Wallace

Self

Frank Pellegrino

Self - Commentator

Philippe Petit

Self - Commentator

Niall Ferguson

Self - Commentator

Paul Goldberger

Self - Commentator

James Glanz

Self - Commentator

Edward Herrmann

ACTOR

Lois Smith

ACTOR

Gene Jones

ACTOR

Patrick McGrath

ACTOR

Eric Lipton

Self

Mrs. Vincent Astor

Self

George W.S. Trow

Self

Louis Armstrong

Self (uncredited) (archiveFootage)

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Self (uncredited) (archiveFootage)

Winston Churchill

Self (with Al Smith atop Empire State Bldg) (uncredited) (archiveFootage)

Duke Ellington

Self (uncredited) (archiveFootage)

Richard Rodgers

Self (uncredited) (archiveFootage)

George Gershwin

Self (plays piano) (uncredited) (archiveFootage)

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Self (uncredited) (archiveFootage)

Irving Berlin

Self (uncredited) (archiveFootage)

John V. Lindsay

Self (uncredited) (archiveFootage)

Fiorello LaGuardia

Self (uncredited) (archiveFootage)

Robert Moses

Self (uncredited) (archiveFootage)

Alfred E. Smith

Self (opens Empire State Bldg) (uncredited) (archiveFootage)

Abraham Beame

Self (Mayor of New York City) (uncredited) (archiveFootage)

Jimmy Walker

Self (uncredited) (archiveFootage)

John Jakob Raskob

Self (Empire State Bldg) (uncredited) (archiveFootage)