Barry Pepper
Dean Stanton

Bonnie Hunt
Jan Edgecomb

Brent Briscoe
Bill Dodge

Brian Libby
Sheriff McGee

Dabbs Greer
Old Paul Edgecomb

David Morse
Brutus «Brutal» Howell

Doug Hutchison
Percy Wetmore

Eve Brent
Elaine Connelly

Gary Sinise
Burt Hammersmith

Graham Greene
Arlen Bitterbuck

Harry Dean Stanton
Toot-Toot

James Cromwell
Warden Hal Moores

Jeffrey DeMunn
Harry Terwilliger

Mack Miles
Orderly Hector

Michael Clarke Duncan
John Coffey

Michael Jeter
Eduard Delacroix

Patricia Clarkson
Melinda Moores

Rai Tasco
Man in Nursing Home

Sam Rockwell
«Wild Bill» Wharton

Tom Hanks
Paul Edgecomb

William Sadler
Klaus Detterick