Glumci

• Tom Hanks — Captain John H. Miller
• Tom Sizemore — Technical Sergeant Michael Horvath
• Edward Burns — Private Richard Reiben
• Barry Pepper — Private Daniel Jackson
• Adam Goldberg — Private Stanley Mellish
• Vin Diesel — Private Adrian Caparzo
• Giovanni Ribisi — T-Medic Irwin Wade
• Jeremy Davies — Corporal Timothy Upham
• Matt Damon — Private James Francis Ryan
• Ted Danson — Captain Fred Hamill
• Paul Giamatti — Sergeant William Hill
• Dennis Farina — Lieutenant Colonel Walter Anderson
• Max Martini — Corporal Henderson
• Dylan Bruno — Toynbe
• Daniel Cerqueira — Weller
• Demetri Goritsas — Parker
• Ian Porter — Trask
• Gary Sefton — Rice
• William Marsh — Lyle
• Markus Napier — Major Hoess
• Peter Miles — Ramelle Paratrooper
• Adam Shaw — Delancey
• Rolf Saxon — Lieutenant Briggs
• Corey Johnson — Radioman
• Nathan Fillion — Minnesota Ryan
• Shane Johnson — Soldier on the Beach
• Martin McDougall — Soldier on the Beach
• Mark Phillips — Soldier on the Beach
• Lee Aaron Rosen — Soldier on the Beach
• Matthew Sharp — Soldier on the Beach
• Vincent Walsh — Soldier on the Beach
• Grahame Wood — Soldier on the Beach
• Crofton Hardester — Senior Medical Officer
• Ryan Hurst — Paratrooper Mandelsohn
• Bryan Cranston — War Department Colonel
• Paul Hickey — Soldier on the Beach
• David Wohl — War Department Captain
• Harrison Young — Ryan as Old Man
• John Sharian — Corporal
• Nigel Whitmey — Private Boyd
• Nick Brooks — Paratrooper Joe
• Sam Ellis — Private Hastings
• Leland Orser — Lieutenant DeWindt
• Kathleen Byron — Old Mrs. Ryan
• John Walters — Old French Man
• James Innes-Smith — MP Lieutenant
• Harve Presnell — General Marshall
• David Vegh — Paratrooper Oliver
• Glenn Wrage — Doyle
• Andrew Scott — Soldier on the Beach
• Erich Redman — German #1
• Eric Loren — War Department Lieutenant
• Rob Freeman — Ryan's Son
• Anna Maguire — Jean's Daughter
• Dale Dye — War Department Colonel
• Amanda Boxer — Mrs. Margaret Ryan