Riven

Sidney Poitier

as Thurgood Marshall

Burt Lancaster

as John W. Davis

Richard Kiley

as Chief Justice Earl Warren

Cleavon Little

as Robert L. 'Bob' Carter

Gloria Foster

as Vivian 'Buster' Marshall

John McMartin

as Governor James F. Byrnes

Graham Beckel

as Josiah C. Tulley

Ed Hall

as Reverend J.A. Delaine

Lynne Thigpen

as Ruth Alice Stovall

Macon McCalman

as W.B. Springer

Randle Mell

as Charles L. Black Jr.

Henderson Forsythe

as Justice Robert Jackson

Cheryl Lynn Bruce

as Gladys Hampton

Tommy Hollis

as Harry Briggs Sr.

John Rothman

as Jack Greenberg

Damien Leake

as Dr. Kenneth Clark

Albert Hall

as Oliver Hill

Mike Nussbaum

as Justice Felix Frankfurter

Hallie Foote

as Julia Davis

William Cain

as Judge J. Waties Waring

E. Katherine Kerr

as Mrs. Elizabeth Avery Waring

Tom Aldredge

as Justice Hugo Black

Leonard Jackson

as Harold Boulware

Edward Seamon

as E.R. Crow

Mark Hammer

as Justice Stanley Forman Reed

Samuel E. Wright

as Artis Patterson

John Ottavino

as Mark Baldwin

Jon DeVries

as David Krech

Beeson Carroll

as Judge John J. Parker

Charles Dumas

as Bob Mong

Fracaswell Hyman

as

Pearce Venning

as Harry Briggs Jr.

John C. Vennema

as Justice William O. Douglas

Robert Blackburn

as

Ralph Williams

as

William Hardy

as Supreme Court Justice Tom Clark

Don Dubbins

as Professor Al Kelly

Jeffrey Wright

as William Coleman

Laura Warner

as Court Room Girl

George Stevens Jr.

Director