Rollebesetning

• Harrison Ford — President James Marshall
• Gary Oldman — Ivan Korshunov
• Glenn Close — Vice President Kathryn Bennett
• Wendy Crewson — Grace Marshall
• Liesel Matthews — Alice Marshall
• Paul Guilfoyle — Chief of Staff Lloyd 'Shep' Shepherd
• Xander Berkeley — Secret Service Agent Gibbs
• Glenn Morshower — Agent Walters
• Philip Baker Hall — U.S. Attorney General Ward
• William H. Macy — Major Caldwell
• Dean Stockwell — Defense Secretary Walter Dean
• Jürgen Prochnow — General Ivan Radek
• Bill Smitrovich — General Northwood
• Tom Everett — National Security Advisor Jack Doherty
• Andrew Divoff — Boris Bazylev
• Elya Baskin — Andrei Kolchak
• Don McManus — F-15 Leader Colonel Carlton
• Carl Weintraub — Lt. Colonel Ingraham
• Ilia Volok — Vladimir Krasin
• Chris Howell — Major Perkins
• Spencer Garrett — White House Aide Thomas Lee
• Willard E. Pugh — White House Comm. Officer
• Oleg Taktarov — Prison Guard #2
• Fenton Lawless — Steward Joey
• Dan Shor — Notre Dame Aide
• Brian Libby — Chief Mechanic
• Diana Bellamy — Switchboard Operator
• Thom Barry — Ramstein S.O.F. Watch Officer
• E.E. Bell — Reporter #1
• Boris Lee Krutonog — MiG Leader
• Donna Bullock — Deputy Press Secretary Melanie Mitchel
• Michael Ray Miller — Colonel Axelrod
• David Vadim — Igor Nevsky
• Michael Monks — Assistant Press Secretary
• David Gianopoulos — Agent Johnson
• Alex Veadov — MiG Pilot
• J.A. Preston
• Timothy Carhart — Secret Service Agent at Checkpoint