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Actors on ''Roots''

This dramatic miniseries aired in January 1977 and September 1978. It was based on Alex Haley's enormously popular story of his family's history.

Orenthal James ''O.J.'' Simpson
American football player and actor. His trial and acquittal on a double murder charge, and subsequent civil trial in which he was found liable for those murders, captured the world's attention in the mid-1990s.
- Portrayed Kadi Touray
Doug McClure (born 1938, died 1995)
American actor.
- Portrayed Jemmy Brent
(Edward) Macdonald Carey (born 1914)
American actor.
- Portrayed Squire James
Gary Collins (born 1938)
American actor.
- Portrayed Grill
Louis Gossett, Jr. (born 1936)
American actor and producer.
- Portrayed Fiddler
Lloyd Bridges (born 1913, died 1998)
American actor.
- Portrayed Evan Brent
Ben Vereen (born 1946)
American actor and entertainer.
- Portrayed Chicken George
Burl Ives (born 1909, died 1995)
American actor and singer.
- Portrayed Sen. Arthur Johnson
LeVar Burton (born 1957)
American actor.
- Portrayed Kunta Kinte as a youth
John Amos (born 1939)
American actor.
- Portrayed Toby/Kunta Kinte as an adult
Edward Asner (born 1929)
American actor.
- Portrayed Capt. Thomas Davies
Todd Bridges (born 1965)
American actor.
- Portrayed Bud
George Stanford Brown (born 1943)
Cuban-American actor and director.
- Portrayed Tom Harvey
Ji-Tu Cumbuka
American actor.
- Portrayed Wrestler
Charles Cyphers
- Portrayed Drake
Thayer David (born 1927, died 1978)
American actor.
- Portrayed Harlan
Brad Davis (born 1949, died 1991)
American actor.
- Portrayed Ol'' George Johnson
Moses Gunn (born 1929)
American actor.
- Portrayed Kintango
George Hamilton (born 1939)
American actor.
- Portrayed Stephen Bennett
Richard McKenzie
- Portrayed Sam Harvey
Ian McShane (born 1942)
English actor and director.
- Portrayed Sir Eric Russell
Vic Morrow (born 1932, died 1982)
American actor and director.
- Portrayed Ames
John Quade
- Portrayed Sheriff Biggs
Thalmus Rasulala (born 1939, died 1991)
American actor.
- Portrayed Omoro
Robert Reed (born 1932, died 1992)
American actor.
- Portrayed William Reynolds
Richard Roundtree (born 1937)
American actor.
- Portrayed Sam Bennett
John Schuck (born 1940)
American actor.
- Portrayed Ordell
Raymond St. Jacques (born 1930, died 1990)
American actor and director.
- Portrayed The Drummer
Austin Stoker
- Portrayed Virgil
Wally Taylor
- Portrayed Reverend
Ralph Waite (born 1929)
American actor and director.
- Portrayed Slater
Lorne Greene (born 1915, died 1987)
Canadian actor.
- Portrayed John Reynolds
Lawrence Hilton Jacobs (born 1953)
American actor and director.
- Portrayed Noah

Actors on ''Roots''

This dramatic miniseries aired in January 1977 and September 1978. It was based on Alex Haley's enormously popular story of his family's history.

Tanya Boyd
- Portrayed Genelva
Cicely Tyson (born 1939)
American actress.
- Portrayed Binta
Leslie Uggams (born 1943)
American singer and actress.
- Portrayed Kizzy
Olivia Cole
American actress.
- Portrayed Mathilda
Sandy Duncan (born 1946)
American actress.
- Portrayed Missy Anne Reynolds
Lynda Day George (born 1946)
American actress.
- Portrayed Mrs. Reynolds
Carolyn Jones (born 1929, died 1983)
American actress.
- Portrayed Mrs. Moore
Lynne Moody
- Portrayed Irene Harvey
Lillian Randolph (born 1980)
- Portrayed Sister Sara
Madge Sinclair (born 1938, died 1995)
- Portrayed Bell
Beverly Todd (born 1946)
American actress.
- Portrayed Fanta as an adult

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Actors on ''Roots''

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