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American Experience
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413 cast members · 76 with popularity data
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1
Tom Hanks
Narrator (voice)
· 1 eps
11.3
#125 overall
2
Kenneth Branagh
Narrator (voice)
· 1 eps
9.8
#166 overall
3
Martin Luther King Jr.
Himself (archive footage)
· 2 eps
7.4
#291 overall
4
Morgan Freeman
Narrator (voice)
· 2 eps
5.6
#479 overall
5
Robert Redford
Self - Narrator (voice)
· 2 eps
4.8
#657 overall
6
Scott Glenn
Narrator (voice)
· 2 eps
4.2
#837 overall
7
Robert Duvall
Narrator (voice)
· 1 eps
4.0
#939 overall
8
Susan Sarandon
Narrator (voice)
· 3 eps
3.9
#970 overall
9
Donald Sutherland
Narrator (voice)
· 1 eps
3.2
#1,316 overall
10
Laura Linney
Narrator (voice)
· 2 eps
3.2
#1,340 overall
11
Glenn Close
Self - Narrator (voice)
· 1 eps
3.2
#1,341 overall
12
Ellen Burstyn
Narrator (voice)
· 1 eps
3.1
#1,393 overall
13
Mandy Patinkin
Narrator (voice)
· 1 eps
3.0
#1,472 overall
14
Liev Schreiber
Narrator (voice)
· 8 eps
2.8
#1,683 overall
15
Christopher Plummer
Narrator
· 1 eps
2.6
#1,863 overall
16
Randy Quaid
Narrator (voice)
· 2 eps
2.3
#2,157 overall
17
Andre Braugher
Narrator (voice)
· 4 eps
2.3
#2,203 overall
18
Keith Carradine
Narrator (voice)
· 1 eps
2.2
#2,306 overall
19
Campbell Scott
Narrator (voice)
· 5 eps
2.2
#2,333 overall
20
Mary McDonnell
Narrator (voice)
· 1 eps
2.2
#2,336 overall
21
F. Murray Abraham
Self - Narrator (voice)
· 1 eps
2.0
#2,661 overall
22
Peter Krause
Narrator
· 2 eps
1.9
#2,796 overall
23
Oliver Platt
Narrator (voice)
· 12 eps
1.8
#2,922 overall
24
Brian Dennehy
Aaron Burr (voice)
· 1 eps
1.7
#3,232 overall
25
Jeffrey Wright
Narrator (voice)
· 1 eps
1.6
#3,465 overall
26
Bugsy Siegel
Self (archive footage)
· 1 eps
1.5
#3,648 overall
27
Richard Thomas
Narrator (voice)
· 1 eps
1.4
#3,878 overall
28
Stacy Keach
Narrator (voice)
· 4 eps
1.4
#4,154 overall
29
Chris Cooper
Narrator (voice)
· 1 eps
1.4
#4,187 overall
30
Roy Scheider
Narrator (voice)
· 1 eps
1.4
#4,188 overall
31
Jesse Owens
Self
· 1 eps
1.3
#4,302 overall
32
Kate Burton
Narrator
· 2 eps
1.3
#4,328 overall
33
Linda Hunt
Self - Narrator (voice)
· 12 eps
1.3
#4,423 overall
34
Joe Mantegna
Narrator (voice)
· 1 eps
1.3
#4,517 overall
35
Judith Light
Narrator (voice)
· 1 eps
1.3
#4,525 overall
36
Héctor Elizondo
Narrator (voice)
· 2 eps
1.2
#4,633 overall
37
David Ogden Stiers
Narrator (voice)
· 31 eps
1.2
#4,663 overall
38
Courtney B. Vance
Narrator (voice)
· 1 eps
1.2
#4,769 overall
39
Jason Robards
Narrator (voice)
· 7 eps
1.2
#4,785 overall
40
Hal Holbrook
Narrator (voice)
· 1 eps
1.1
#5,369 overall
41
Lea Salonga
Narrator
· 1 eps
1.0
#5,469 overall
42
Alfre Woodard
Narrator (voice)
· 2 eps
1.0
#5,521 overall
43
Len Cariou
Narrator (voice)
· 1 eps
1.0
#5,595 overall
44
René Auberjonois
Woodrow Wilson (voice)
· 2 eps
1.0
#5,634 overall
45
Marion Ross
Edith Bolling-Galt (voice)
· 1 eps
0.9
#6,098 overall
46
James Avery
Charles Hamilton Houston (voice)
· 1 eps
0.9
#6,310 overall
47
Louis Zamperini
Self
· 1 eps
0.9
#6,446 overall
48
Cherry Jones
Narrator (voice)
· 1 eps
0.8
#6,711 overall
49
Colm Feore
Narrator (voice)
· 1 eps
0.8
#7,167 overall
50
Hal Linden
Narrator (voice)
· 1 eps
0.8
#7,207 overall
51
Peter Coyote
Narrator (voice)
· 2 eps
0.7
#7,574 overall
52
Joe Morton
Narrator (voice)
· 8 eps
0.7
#8,045 overall
53
Hume Cronyn
Narrator (voice)
· 1 eps
0.7
#8,163 overall
54
Renée Elise Goldsberry
Narrator
· 1 eps
0.6
#8,407 overall
55
Harris Yulin
Narrator (voice)
· 1 eps
0.6
#8,490 overall
56
Simon Russell Beale
John Adams (voice)
· 1 eps
0.6
#8,521 overall
57
Roger Rees
William Bradford
· 1 eps
0.5
#9,998 overall
58
Garrison Keillor
Narrator (voice)
· 1 eps
0.5
#10,452 overall
59
Ruby Dee
Narrator (voice)
· 1 eps
0.5
#10,977 overall
60
Carl Lumbly
Narrator (voice)
· 1 eps
0.5
#11,128 overall
61
David McCullough
Narrator (voice)
· 14 eps
0.3
#13,497 overall
62
André Holland
Narrator
· 1 eps
0.3
#13,500 overall
63
Anna Deavere Smith
Narrator (voice)
· 1 eps
0.3
#13,549 overall
64
Blair Brown
Narrator (voice)
· 6 eps
0.3
#13,702 overall
65
Philip Bosco
Narrator (voice)
· 1 eps
0.2
#19,749 overall
66
Charles Kuralt
Self - Narrator (voice)
· 1 eps
0.2
#20,786 overall
67
Dion Graham
Self - Narrator (voice)
· 3 eps
0.2
#20,855 overall
68
Sada Thompson
Narrator (voice)
· 1 eps
0.2
#20,984 overall
69
Eric Sevareid
Self - Narrator (voice)
· 1 eps
0.1
#28,849 overall
70
Guy Walters
Self
· 1 eps
0.1
#30,115 overall
71
William Stanley Merwin
Narrator (voice)
· 1 eps
0.1
#30,636 overall
72
Ping Wu
Narrator (voice)
· 1 eps
0.0
#39,747 overall
73
Harry Edwards
Self
· 1 eps
0.0
#40,533 overall
74
Jeremy Schaap
Self
· 1 eps
0.0
#44,894 overall
75
Richard Ben Cramer
Narrator (voice)
· 3 eps
0.0
#45,699 overall
76
Stephen Ives
Himself - Director
· 1 eps
0.0
#62,607 overall
77
Irv Drasnin
Narrator (voice)
· 2 eps
—
78
Sam Grey
Felix Frankfurter (voice)
· 1 eps
—
79
Russell Baker
Narrator (voice)
· 4 eps
—
80
Lisa Emond
Abigail Adams (voice)
· 1 eps
—
81
Mitchell McCann
Jesse James
· 1 eps
—
82
Brian Paulette
Frank James
· 1 eps
—
83
Marilyn Spanier
Annie Oakley (voice)
· 1 eps
—
84
Nicholas Purcell
Charles Adams
· 1 eps
—
85
Hilmar Dressler
Self
· 1 eps
—
86
Professor Margaret MacMillan
Self
· 1 eps
—
87
Theodor Michael
Self
· 1 eps
—
88
William Rhoden
Self
· 1 eps
—
89
Volker Kluge
Self
· 1 eps
—
90
Rainer Rother
Self
· 1 eps
—
91
Iris Cummings Critchell
Self
· 1 eps
—
92
David Wallechinsky
Self
· 1 eps
—
93
William J. Baker
Self
· 1 eps
—
94
Susan Ware
Self
· 1 eps
—
95
Rafael Medoff
Self
· 1 eps
—
96
Marlene Owens Rankin
Self
· 1 eps
—
97
Beverly Owens Prather
Self
· 1 eps
—
98
David Clay Large
Self
· 1 eps
—
99
Louis Stokes
Self
· 1 eps
—
100
Joanna Rhinehart
Narrator
· 1 eps
—
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