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

William H. Macy

Major Caldwell

Dean Stockwell

Defense Secretary Walter Dean

Tom Everett

National Security Advisor Jack Doherty

Jürgen Prochnow

General Ivan Radek

Donna Bullock

Deputy Press Secretary Melanie Mitchel

Michael Ray Miller

Colonel Axelrod

Carl Weintraub

Lt. Colonel Ingraham

Elester Latham

AFO Navigator

Elya Baskin

Andrei Kolchak

Levan Uchaneishvili

Sergei Lenski

David Vadim

Igor Nevsky

Andrew Divoff

Boris Bazylev

Ilia Volok

Vladimir Krasin

Chris Howell

Major Perkins

Spencer Garrett

White House Aide Thomas Lee

Bill Smitrovich

General Northwood

Philip Baker Hall

U.S. Attorney General Ward

Albert Owens

'Football' Colonel

Willard E. Pugh

White House Comm. Officer

Michael Monks

Assistant Press Secretary

Alan Woolf

Russian President Petrov

Messiri Freeman

Future Postmaster General

Thomas Crawford

Steward Mike

Fenton Lawless

Steward Joey

Dan Shor

Notre Dame Aide

David Gianopoulos

Agent Johnson

Glenn Morshower

Agent Walters

Richard Doyle

A.F.O. Back-up Pilot

Don McManus

F-15 Leader Colonel Carlton

Duke Miglin

F-15 'Halo 2' Fighter Pilot

Pasha D. Lychnikoff

Prison Guard #1 (as Pavel D. Lychnikoff)

Oleg Taktarov

Prison Guard #2

Mario Roberts

Secret Service Agent #1

Keith Woulard

Secret Service Agent #2

J. Mark Donaldson

Secret Service Agent #3

Bruce Holman

Secret Service Agent #4

Brian Libby

Chief Mechanic

Diana Bellamy

Switchboard Operator

Thom Barry

Ramstein S.O.F. Watch Officer

Harry Hutchinson

Ramstein Airbase Controller

E.E. Bell

Reporter #1

Mark Thompson

Reporter #2

Alex Veadov

MiG Pilot

Boris Lee Krutonog

MiG Leader

Ren Hanami

Reporter #4

Titus Welliver

Military Officer in White House Situation Room (uncredited)

Timothy Carhart

Secret Service Agent at Checkpoint (uncredited)

Gwendoline Yeo

FBI Agent (uncredited)