Roddy McDowall

Narrator (voice)

Richard Barthelmess

The Yellow Man (archive footage)

Charlie Chaplin

Self / Various roles (archive footage)

Thomas A. Edison

Self (archive footage)

Douglas Fairbanks Jr.

Self

Douglas Fairbanks

Self (archive footage)

Lillian Gish

Lucy - The Girl (archive footage)

D.W. Griffith

Self (archive footage)

Robert Harron

Self (archive footage)

Mabel Normand

Self (archive footage)

Mary Pickford

Self / Various roles (archive footage)

Mack Swain

Big Jim McKay (archive footage)

Henry B. Walthall

Col. Ben Cameron (archive footage)