Roots (tv-series, 1977)
Roots
The epic tale of celebrated Pulitzer-prize winning author Alex Haley's ancestors as portrayed in the acclaimed twelve hour mini-series Roots, was first told in his 1976 bestseller Roots: The Saga of an American Family.
Roots (1977) - Full Cast & Crew
Actors and roles, crew of Roots (1977). Who was filming and what role he played.
Directors
Director, Producer, Design. Popular movies: Roots (1977), Holocaust (1978), Tank (1984)
Director, Producer, Actor. Popular movies: Roots (1977), Blackboard Jungle (1955), The Outer Limits (1963)
Director. Popular movies: Roots (1977), Willie Dynamite (1974), The Greatest Thing That Almost Happened (1977)
Designs
Design. Popular movies: Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982), Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979), Roots (1977)
Design, Producer. Popular movies: New Jack City (1990), Drumline (2002), Roots (1977)
Design. Popular movies: Roots (1977), Burnt Offerings (1976), The President's Mistress (1978)
Actors
Dr. William Reynolds
lead role
Actor, Director. Popular movies: Roots (1977), The Boy in the Plastic Bubble (1976), Death of a Centerfold: The Dorothy Stratten Story (1981)
Fiddler
lead role
Actor, Producer, Director. Popular movies: Enemy Mine (1985), The Punisher (1989), Roots (1977)
Mrs. Reynolds
Actor. Popular movies: Pieces (1982), Day of the Animals (1977), Racquet (1979)
Bell Reynolds
Actor. Popular movies: One in a Million: The Ron LeFlore Story (1977), High Ice (1980), Victims (1982)
Chicken George Moore
Actor. Popular movies: Once Upon a Forest (1993), Time Out of Mind (2014)
Evan Brent
Actor, Director. Popular movies: High Noon (1952), Hot Shots! Part Deux (1993), Airplane II: The Sequel (1982)
Tom Harvey
Actor, Director, Producer. Popular movies: Stir Crazy (1980), Imps* (1983), Wild in the Sky (1972)
Tom Moore
Actor. Popular movies: Soylent Green (1973), Airplane II: The Sequel (1982), Tourist Trap (1979)
John Reynolds
Actor. Popular movies: Battlestar Galactica (1978), Battlestar Galactica (1978), Bonanza (1959)
Missy Anne Reynolds
Actor. Popular movies: The Cat from Outer Space (1978), The 1st 13th Annual Fancy Anvil Awards Show Program Special: Live in Stereo (2002)
Slater
Actor, Director, Writer. Popular movies: Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco (1996), A Walton Thanksgiving Reunion (1993), OHMS (1980)
Capt. Thomas Davies
Actor, Producer. Popular movies: Up (2009), Koyaanisqatsi (1982), Spider-Man (1994)
Wrestler
Actor. Popular movies: Bachelor Party (1984), Brewster's Millions (1985), The A-Team (1983)
Lewis Harvey
Actor. Popular movies: Roots (1977), Raise the Titanic (1980), One Day at a Time (1975)
Ames
Actor, Director, Writer. Popular movies: Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983), The Bad News Bears (1976), Humanoids from the Deep (1980)
Irene Harvey
Actor. Popular movies: Roots (1977), All in the Family (1971), White Dog (1982)
Kizzy Reynolds Moore
Actor. Popular movies: A Special Sesame Street Christmas (1978), Sizzle (1981)
Genelva
Actor. Popular movies: Roots (1977), A Different World (1987), Days of Our Lives (1965)
Lila Harvey
Actor. Popular movies: Roots (1977), Three's Company (1976), Breakheart Pass (1975)
Kunta Kinte
Actor, Director, Producer. Popular movies: Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987), Captain Planet and the Planeteers (1990), Rise of the Zombies (2012)
Harlan
Actor. Popular movies: Savages (1972), Nero Wolfe (1979), Dead of Night: A Darkness at Blaisedon (1969)
Field Singer
Actor, Director, Producer. Popular movies: Roots (1977), House Party (1989), Alligator (1980)
Luther
Actor. Popular movies: Weird Science (1985), Roots (1977), Repossessed (1990)
Squire James
Actor. Popular movies: Shadow of a Doubt (1942), Days of Our Lives (1965), Wake Island (1942)
Kadi Touray
Actor, Producer. Popular movies: O.J.: Made in America (2016), Firepower (1979), A Killing Affair (1977)
Mingo
Actor. Popular movies: Coonskin (1975), Scavenger Hunt (1979), Scooby-Doo! Spooky Games (2012)
Nyo Boto
Actor, Writer, Director. Popular movies: I Hope You Dance: The Power and Spirit of Song (2015)
Noah
Actor, Director, Producer. Popular movies: 31 (2016), Sublime (2007), Youngblood (1978)
Stephen Bennett
Actor, Producer. Popular movies: Hollywood Ending (2002), Viva Maria! (1965), The Victors (1963)
Kintango
Actor. Popular movies: Shaft (1971), Shaft's Big Score! (1972), The Contender (1980)
Senator Arthur J. Justin
Actor. Popular movies: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958), Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964), Our Man in Havana (1959)
Mrs. Moore
Actor. Popular movies: The Addams Family (1964), Last Train from Gun Hill (1959), Eaten Alive (1976)
Jimmy Brent
Actor. Popular movies: Humanoids from the Deep (1980), Shenandoah (1965), At the Earth's Core (1976)
Ordell
Actor. Popular movies: The Curse of the Jade Scorpion (2001), Thieves Like Us (1974), McMillan & Wife (1971)
The Drummer
Actor, Director, Producer. Popular movies: Cotton Comes to Harlem (1970), Come Back, Charleston Blue (1972), Change of Mind (1969)
Sir Eric Russell
Actor, Producer. Popular movies: John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017), John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum (2019), Death Race (2008)
Grill
Actor, Writer. Popular movies: Hangar 18 (1980), The Kid from Left Field (1979), The Night They Took Miss Beautiful (1977)
Brima Cesay
Actor. Popular movies: The Bold Ones: The Protectors (1969)
Sam Bennett
Actor. Popular movies: Shaft (2019), Shaft (1971), An Eye for an Eye (1981)
John Carrington
Actor. Popular movies: Scarface (1983), The Big Blue (1988), The Secret of NIMH (1982)
Malizy
Actor. Popular movies: Roots (1977), All in the Family (1971), Amazon Women on the Moon (1987)
Gardner
Actor. Popular movies: In the Heat of the Night (1967), Roots (1977), The Sword and the Sorcerer (1982)
Trumbull
Actor. Popular movies: Chinatown (1974), RoboCop (1987), Young Guns II (1990)
Mama Ada
Actor. Popular movies: The Man with Two Brains (1983), Roots (1977), Nothing in Common (1986)
Slaver
Actor, Producer. Popular movies: Enemy Mine (1985), Another 48 Hrs. (1990), Crimewave (1985)
Miss Constable
Actor. Popular movies: Roots (1977), Beverly Hills Buntz (1981), Barney Miller (1975)
Reverend
Actor. Popular movies: Rocky III (1982), Escape from New York (1981), The Golden Child (1986)
Binta
Actor, Producer. Popular movies: Because of Winn-Dixie (2005), Sounder (1972), The River Niger (1976)
Kailuba
Actor. Popular movies: Funny People (2009), Malcolm X (1992), Everybody Hates Chris (2005)
The Singer
Actor. Popular movies: Roots (1977), Standing in the Shadows of Motown (2002), Elvis Presley: The Searcher (2018)
Sheriff Charlie Biggs
Actor. Popular movies: The Sting (1973), Papillon (1973), The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)
Leonard
Actor. Popular movies: Westworld (1973), In a Lonely Place (1950), Roots (1977)
The Doctor
Actor. Popular movies: Roots (1977), Return to Macon County (1975), The Lincoln Conspiracy (1977)
Robert Calvert
Actor. Popular movies: Being There (1979), Knight Rider (1982), Roots (1977)
Vilars
Actor. Popular movies: Roots (1977), Grizzly (1976), Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nellie (1952)
Man at Cockfight
Actor, Producer. Popular movies: Annie Hall (1977), Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), 48 Hrs. (1982)
Calvert
Actor, Director. Popular movies: WarGames (1983), Real Genius (1985), Murder, She Wrote (1984)
Seaman Grimes
Actor. Popular movies: Road Trip (2000), Roots (1977), Walker, Texas Ranger (1993)
Telegrapher
Actor. Popular movies: Spartacus (1960), King Kong (1976), Little House on the Prairie (1974)
James
Actor. Popular movies: New York, New York (1977), Roots (1977), Nice Dreams (1981)
Bess
Actor. Popular movies: Roots (1977), The Odd Couple (1970), The New Scooby-Doo Movies (1972)
Sassy Woman
Actor. Popular movies: The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981), New York, New York (1977), Roots (1977)
Trumbull
Actor. Popular movies: The Straight Story (1999), Anne of Green Gables (1985), Rhinestone (1984)
Baby Kunta Kinte
Actor. Popular movies: Roots (1977), Moonwalker (1988), A Different World (1987)
Bud Harvey
Actor, Producer, Director. Popular movies: Diff'rent Strokes (1978), Showbiz Kids (2020), High School U.S.A. (1983)
Maggie (Fanta)
Actor. Popular movies: Lean On Me (1989), Moving (1988), Hope & Redemption: The Lena Baker Story (2008)
Actor, Producer. Popular movies: I Know Where Lizzie Is (2016), Stolen from the Heart (2000), Sight Unseen (2009)
Producers
Producer, Actor. Popular movies: Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971), Roots (1977), The Thorn Birds (1983)
Producer, Actor, Writer. Popular movies: Roots (1977), Smokey and the Good Time Outlaws (1978)
Producer, Actor. Popular movies: Roots (1977), Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942), The Magic of Lassie (1978)
Producer, Actor, Director. Popular movies: L.A. Confidential (1997), Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971), Murder in the First (1994)
Operators
Operator, Producer. Popular movies: Roots (1977), Bill Cosby: Himself (1983), Grambling's White Tiger (1981)
Operator, Actor. Popular movies: Caddyshack (1980), Badlands (1973), Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983)
Writers
Writer, Producer, Actor. Popular movies: Starsky & Hutch (2004), Purple Rain (1984), Roots (1977)
Writer, Actor. Popular movies: Roots (1977), White Water Summer (1987), Buck and the Preacher (1972)
Writer. Popular movies: Roots (1977), Young Joe, the Forgotten Kennedy (1977), Channing (1963)
Composers
Composer. Popular movies: Paths of Glory (1957), The Killing (1956), Killer's Kiss (1954)
Actor, Composer, Producer. Popular movies: Fantasia 2000 (1999), Quincy (2018), ReMastered: The Two Killings of Sam Cooke (2019)
Editors
Editor, Actor, Writer. Popular movies: Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003), Dances with Wolves (1990), Outbreak (1995)
