Director
Peter Hammer
DIRECTOR
St. Clair Bourne
Jeffrey Schon
Lawrence Pitkethly
Stars (in credits order)
Peter Maloney
Narrator
Joan Allen
Mrs. Frost
Laurence Luckinbill
Jason Robards III
ACTOR
Frank Maraden
Roscoe Orman
Poetry Narration
Novella Nelson
David Langston Smyrl
Jesse B. Simple
Laurie Heineman
Marianne Moore
D. Stevens
Hughes in Paris
Olu Dara
Trumpet Player
Clarence Reynolds
Hughes as child
Patricia Willis
Lit. Historian
Mamadou Niang
Voice of Hon. Leopold Senghor
Ed Cherry
Guitar Player
Mellissa Arsenia Brown
Paris Musician
Charles Tomlinson
Poet
Vernell Spearman
Grandmother on porch
Randy Garrett
Grace Schulman
Francisco Calimba
Richard Howard
Critic
Monroe Wheeler
Moma
Clive Driver
Lit. Executor
Dianne McIntyre
Dancer
José Ferrer
Fred A. Keller
Man with Green Eyes
Frank O'Hara
Bartender
Andrew Flood
Banjo Player
Gemma Daniel
Young Girl
Anastasia
Cook
Alain Klarer
Derelict
Sixtus Jean Charles
Aunt Sally Simpson
Mark Prior
Hobo
Bernard Mogal
Nigel Scott
Hart Crane
Winfield Compton
Ship's Crew
Teddy Smith
Young Hart Crane
Mary Henry
John Gittler
Yves Roque
Sailor
Arthur Jacobs
Captain
Anne Daniel
Housekeeper
Frederick Powell
James DeMunn
1st Hobo
Malcolm Alexander
Ricky Didier
Eric Branford
Bouncer
James Baldwin
Self (uncredited)
Amiri Baraka
Gwendolyn Brooks
Léopold Sédar Senghor