On screen
Cast
60 credited performers
Anne Howard Bailey
Narrator (voice)
George Hearn
Henry Clay
Allan Carlsen
John Adams II
George Grizzard
John Adams
William Daniels
John Quincy Adams
Pamela Payton-Wright
Louisa Catherine Adams
Wesley Addy
Andrew Jackson
W.B. Brydon
Samuel Adams
Nancy Marchand
Mrs. Smith
Jean-Pierre Stewart
Alexis de Toqueville
Tim Wilson
Young John II
Michael O'Hare
Richard Cranch
John Tillinger
King George III
Kathryn Walker
Abigail Smith Adams
Lisa Lucas
Young Abigail II
Katharine Houghton
Abigail Adams II
Curt Dawson
John Hancock
Patrick Horgan
Lord Howe
M'el Dowd
Madame Brillon
K.C. Ligon
Fanny
Albert Stratton
Thomas Jefferson
David Elliott
George Washington Adams
Thomas Stewart
Charles Francis Adams
John Beal
Charles Francis Adams
Nancy Coleman
Abigail Brooks Adams
Michael Tolan
Narrator
Nicholas Pryor
John Quincy Adams II
Robert Symonds
Benjamin Franklin
Reid Shelton
Timothy Pickering
Jeremiah Sullivan
Alexander Hamilton
Charles Siebert
Charles Francis Adams II
Ken Kercheval
James Madison
George Clooney
Henry Clay
Addison Powell
The Reverend Smith
James Noble
Jonathan Sewall
John Houseman
Justice Gridley
Pirie MacDonald
James Forrest
Fred Stuthman
Judge
Taina Elg
Comtesse de Vergennes
Guy Sorel
Comte de Vergennes
Richard Cox
Colonel William Stephens Smith
Don McHenry
Sir Clement Cotterell Dormer
Jack Gwillim
Lord Carmarthen
Roberts Blossom
Carver
Robin Pearson Rose
Polly Jefferson
Tom Aldredge
James McHenry
Josef Sommer
Charles Lee
Robert Prosky
Benjamin Stoddert
Stephen Strimpell
Ames
Louis Turenne
M. Hauteval
Tom McDermott
Eldridge Gerry
John McQuade
General Charles Pinckney
David O'Brien
Oliver Wolcott
Barton Heyman
Captain Beckford
John Horn
Lieutenant Mountgarret
Paul Sparer
Chancellor Nikolay Rumyantsev
Christopher Lloyd
Tsar Alexandre I
Valerie French
Countess Rostov
Michael Kane
General Caulaincourt
Rodman Flender
Charles Francis Adams