On screen
Cast
133 credited performers
Ja'net DuBois
Wilona Woods
Jimmie Walker
James "JJ" Evans
Ralph Carter
Michael Evans
Bern Nadette Stanis
Thelma Evans
Esther Rolle
Florida Evans
John Amos
James Evans Sr.
Johnny Brown
Nathan Bookman
Janet Jackson
Milicent 'Penny' Woods
Ben Powers
Keith Anderson
Helen Martin
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Teddy Wilson
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Moses Gunn
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Raymond Allen
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Alice Ghostley
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Ta-Tanisha
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Susan Batson
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Bubba Smith
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Bebe Drake
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James Wheaton
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Hal Williams
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Earl Billings
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Adam Wade
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Gary Coleman
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Ron Glass
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Johnny Sekka
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Paulene Myers
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Louis Gossett Jr.
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Ta-Ronce Allen
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Taurean Blacque
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Kim Fields
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Debbie Allen
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Carl Franklin
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Kathleen Doyle
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Bill Henderson
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Thalmus Rasulala
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T.K. Carter
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Debbi Morgan
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Grand L. Bush
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Ernie Barnes
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Carl M. Craig
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John Witherspoon
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Richard Libertini
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Estelle Evans
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Arnold Johnson
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Conchata Ferrell
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Jane Connell
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Carl Weathers
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Alvin Childress
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Rosalind Cash
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Hope Clarke
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Charlotte Rae
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Vernee Watson
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Paula Kelly
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Judy Pace
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Don Marshall
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Julius Harris
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Jack Baker
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Eric Monte
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Michael D. Roberts
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Austin Pendleton
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Ernie Wheelwright
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William Christopher
The Doctor
Bill Cobbs
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Richard Ward
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Lester Wilson
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Norma Donaldson
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J.A. Preston
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Frank Campanella
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Rosanne Katon
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Hilly Hicks
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Jay Leno
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Robert Guillaume
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Veronica Redd
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Richard B. Shull
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Harry Caesar
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Sorrell Booke
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Sunshine Sammy Morrison
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Randi Kallan
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Roscoe Lee Browne
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Ernie Lee Banks
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Philip Michael Thomas
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Ralph Wilcox
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Howard Morton
Jim Crebbins
Kathleen Bradley
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Fay Hauser
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Frances Foster
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Sheryl Lee Ralph
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Charles Siebert
A.J. Rutherford
Woodrow Parfrey
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Brenda Sykes
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Percy Rodriguez
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Gordon Jump
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Beeson Carroll
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Thomas Carter
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David Lewis
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Maidie Norman
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James A. Watson, Jr
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Tony Burton
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Philip Baker Hall
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William Pierson
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Dick O'Neill
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Nedra Volz
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Roger Aaron Brown
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Santiago Gonzalez
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Lee Weaver
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Paul Mooney
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Tanya Boyd
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Sharon Brown
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Shirley Hemphill
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Richard Lawson
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Mary Alice
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Ann Weldon
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Charles Hallahan
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James Greene
Desk Sergeant
Lynn Hamilton
Mrs. Edwards
Bill Walker
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Richard Stahl
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Cal Gibson
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Al Fann
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Henry G. Sanders
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Wendell Wright
Sergeant
Larry Robinson
Damon Stevenson
Tina Andrews
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Rana Ford
Marcia
Helen Stenborg
The Cashier
Rai Sanders
The Doctor
Larry Beecham
Cool Breeze
Ed Cambridge
Leroy Jackson
Lil Henderson
Woman on the Bench
Nancy Morgan
Cindy Crebbins
Mel Stewart
Davis
Ron Masak
Sloane
Connie Sawyer
Personnel Woman