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Starship Troopers (1997)

129 mins

7.1 / 10

Set in the future, the story follows a young soldier named Johnny Rico and his exploits in the Mobile Infantry. Rico's military career progresses from recruit to non-commissioned officer and finally to officer against the backdrop of an interstellar war between mankind and an arachnoid species known as "the Bugs".

Adventure
Action
Thriller
Science Fiction

Cast

Backdrops

Cast

Casper Van Dien
as Johnny D. Rico

Dina Meyer
as Dizzy Flores

Denise Richards
as Carmen Ibañez

Jake Busey
as Private Ace Levy

Neil Patrick Harris
as Colonel Carl Jenkins

Clancy Brown
as Career Sergeant Zim

Michael Ironside
as Lieutenant Jean Rasczak

Patrick Muldoon
as Zander Barcalow

Seth Gilliam
as Private Sugar Watkins

Rue McClanahan
as Biology Teacher

Blake Lindsley
as Katrina McIntire

Steven Ford
as Lieutenant Willy

Ungela Brockman
as Corporal Birdie

Bruce Gray
as Sky Marshal Dienes

Denise Dowse
as Sky Marshal Tehat Meru

Amy Smart
as Cadet Lumbreiser

Tami-Adrian George
as Djana'D

Julianna McCarthy
as Expert

Dale Dye
as General

Dean Norris
as Commanding Officer

Marshall Bell
as General Owen

Eric Bruskotter
as Breckinridge

Matt Levin
as Kitten Smith

Anthony Ruivivar
as Shujimi

Brenda Strong
as Captain Deladier

Christopher Curry
as Mr. Bill Rico

Lenore Kasdorf
as Mrs. Rico

Teo
as Corporal Bronski

Curnal Achilles Aulisio
as Sgt. Gillespie

Greg Travis
as Net Correspondent

John Cunningham
as Fed Net Announcer (voice)

Timothy McNeil
as Expert

Robert David Hall
as Recruiting Sergeant

Brad Kane
as Lanny

Timothy Omundson
as Psychic

Patrick Bishop
as Engineering Officer

Hunter Bodine
as Young Cap Trooper

Travis Lowen
as Little Boy Trooper

Patrick Wolff
as Late Cadet

Mara Duronslet
as Communications Officer

Tyrone Tann
as Student

Matt Entriken
as Marco

Eric DaRe
as Medic

Ronald L. Botchan
as Jumpball Referee

Walter Adrian
as Judge

Stephanie Erb
as Young Mother

Alexi Lakatos
as Stomping Kid

Nathaniel Marshall
as Stomping Kid

Austin Sanderford
as Stomping Kid

Rhiannon Vigil
as Stomping Kid

Mylin Brooks
as Female Trooper

Julie Pinson
as Female Trooper

Armand Darrius
as Male Trooper

Kai Lennox
as Male Trooper

Brooke Morales
as Cheerleader

Mike Stokey
as Officer with Morita

Mary Ann Schmidt
as Female Trooper (uncredited)

Aaron Stielstra
as Trooper (uncredited)

Edward Neumeier
as Defendant (uncredited)

Michael Papajohn
as Dead Trooper (uncredited)

Michael A. Valenzano
as Trooper (uncredited)

Mo Faisal
as Trooper (uncredited)

R. Lee Ermey
as Voice heard on speaker (voice) (uncredited)

Matt Duggan
as Wounded Soldier on Gurney (uncredited)

Whitney Hall
as Judge (uncredited)

Betty Hankins
as Sky Marshal (uncredited)

Kaius Harrison
as Cpl. Allen (uncredited)

Bruce Holman
as Jump Ball Referee (uncredited)

Michael Gerald
as Football Quarterback (uncredited)

Jon Davison
as Buenos Aires Survivor (uncredited)

Dawn E. Anderson
as Female Trooper (uncredited)

Tony Nichols
as Cadet 'Flipper' (uncredited)

Dan Olivo
as Academy Soilder (uncredited)

Zoë Poledouris
as School Prom Lead Singer (uncredited)

Ashley Prendergast
as Hot Female Trooper (uncredited)

Ray Quiroga
as Male Trooper Leader (uncredited)

David Rey
as Trooper (uncredited)

Dennis Collins
as Soldier (uncredited)

Farnaz Samiinia
as Female Trooper (uncredited)

Joleen Sanders
as Female Trooper (uncredited)

Julia Self
as Female Trooper (uncredited)

Claude Stuart
as Student / Male Trooper (uncredited)

Parry Shen
as Student (uncredited)

Cari Vega
as Student / Female Trooper (uncredited)

Jim Temple
as Male Trooper (uncredited)

Justin Ward
as Medic (uncredited)

Sam P. Whitehead
as Trooper (uncredited)

Melissa J. Ward
as Trooper (uncredited)

Johnny Mansbach
as Marine (uncredited)

David Beckett
as Businessman (uncredited)

Directing

- Script Supervisor

Gregg Goldstone

- First Assistant Director

- First Assistant Director

- Second Assistant Director

- Second Assistant Director

- First Assistant Director

Peter E. Hirsch

- Second Second Assistant Director

- Second Unit Director

Kenneth Silverstein

- Second Assistant Director

Production

Elaine J. Huzzar

- Assistant Accountant

Robert Latham Brown

- Production Manager

- Production Supervisor

- Co-Producer

Edward Neumeier

- Co-Producer

- Co-Producer

Stacy Lumbrezer

- Co-Producer

- Production Office Coordinator

- Executive In Charge Of Production

Patrick Mignano

- Location Manager

- ADR Voice Casting

Mary Jane Fendler

- Casting Assistant

- Location Casting

Janet Campolito

- Assistant Production Coordinator

- Assistant Production Coordinator

Linda C. Azevedo

- First Assistant Accountant

Brandon Lambdin

- Production Assistant

- Production Assistant

- Production Assistant

Kenny Gallagher

- Production Assistant

Rosie Richardson

- Production Assistant

- Production Assistant

Safi Alia Shabaik

- Production Assistant

- Production Coordinator

- Second Assistant Accountant

Sherry Wong-Kitamura

- Assistant Accountant

Jacqueline Zietlow

- Administration

- Head of Production

Nancy Blumstein

- Production Accountant

Suzanne Niki Yoshii

- Production Accountant

- Production Assistant

- Production Assistant

- Production Assistant

- Production Assistant

- Production Coordinator

Lydia Bottegoni

- Production Manager

- Production Manager

John H. Radulovic

- Production Supervisor

- Production Supervisor

- Extras Casting Assistant

Kaylene Carlson

- Production Secretary

Writing

Edward Neumeier

Robert A. Heinlein

Giacomo G. Ghiazza

Camera

- Director of Photography

Stephen Vaughan

- Still Photographer

Stephen St. John

- Steadicam Operator

Mark Emery Moore

- Steadicam Operator

Bruce Alan Greene

- Steadicam Operator

- First Assistant Camera

- Best Boy Grip

- Best Boy Grip

Leonard Fishburn

- Best Boy Grip

- Camera Operator

Daniel L. Turrett

- Camera Operator

Thomas R. Miller

Patrick McArdle

- First Assistant "B" Camera

- First Assistant Camera

- Second Assistant Camera

- Second Assistant "B" Camera

Thomas Vandermillen

- Second Assistant "B" Camera

Jacquiline Compton

- Second Assistant Camera

- Additional Director of Photography

- Assistant Camera

Brian Mussetter

- Assistant Camera

- Assistant Camera

- Assistant Camera

- Assistant Camera

- Camera Operator

- Camera Technician

- Camera Technician

- Camera Technician

- Data Wrangler

Michael Palmieri

- Data Wrangler

Eric Alan Donaldson

Sound

Basil Poledouris

- Original Music Composer

Joseph Geisinger

- Sound mixer

Kevin O'Connell

- Sound Re-Recording Mixer

Greg P. Russell

- Sound Re-Recording Mixer

David Lewis Yewdall

- Sound Effects Editor

- Sound Effects Editor

- Sound Effects Editor

Warren Hamilton Jr.

- Sound Effects Editor

- Sound Effects Editor

Patricio A. Libenson

- Sound Effects Editor

- Sound Effects Editor

Stephen Hunter Flick

- Sound Designer

- Sound Designer

- Sound Designer

- Sound Designer

- Boom Operator

- Sound Recordist

- Assistant Sound Editor

Matthew C. Beville

- Foley Editor

- Music Editor

- Orchestrator

- Sound Engineer

Charleen Richards-Steeves

- ADR Recordist

Jeena M. Phelps

- Assistant Dialogue Editor

- Music Editor

Jeffrey Wilhoit

- Foley Artist

- Foley Artist

- Foley Editor

- Foley Editor

Nerses Gezalyan

- Foley Mixer

- Scoring Mixer

Greig McRitchie

- Orchestrator

Steven Scott Smalley

- Orchestrator

- Sound Recordist

- Supervising ADR Editor

Michael J. Benavente

- Supervising Dialogue Editor

Basil Poledouris

Frankii Elliott

- Music Consultant

- Dialogue Editor

Visual Effects

- Visual Effects Supervisor

Raleigh L. Swick II

- 3D Modeller

- Digital Compositors

David Rosenthal

- I/O Supervisor

John Richardson

- Special Effects Supervisor

- Visual Effects Coordinator

- Visual Effects Producer

- 3D Animator

Richard L. Cohen

- 3D Animator

- 3D Modeller

John Zdankiewicz

Thomas Schelesny

Oscar G. Castillo

- CG Animator

- CG Animator

- CG Animator

- CG Animator

Raymond C. King

- CG Animator

Brandon McNaughton

- Digital Compositor

Charles Granich

- Digital Compositor

- Digital Compositor

- Digital Compositor

Helen Verhoeven

- Digital Compositor

- Digital Compositor

- Digital Compositor

- Digital Compositor

- Digital Compositor

- Digital Compositor

Kevin Rose-Williams

- Lead Animator

- Lead Animator

- Lead Animator

- Compositing Lead

- Compositing Lead

- Compositing Lead

Jason Dowdeswell

- Compositing Lead

- Compositing Lead

- Compositing Lead

- Compositing Lead

Charlie Clavadetscher

- Matchmove Supervisor

Aurore Nightingayle

Dave Chamberlain

Kittaya Robinson

Lance Chikasawa

Peter Steenolsen

Shimpei Kitamura

Bob Diepenbrock

- Pre-Visualization Coordinator

- Pre-Visualization Supervisor

- Rotoscoping Artist

- Rotoscoping Artist

- Rotoscoping Artist

- Rotoscoping Artist

- Animation Supervisor

- Compositing Supervisor

- Visual Effects Coordinator

- Visual Effects Coordinator

- Visual Effects Coordinator

- Visual Effects Coordinator

- Visual Effects Coordinator

- Visual Effects Coordinator

Diana Stulic Ibanez

- Visual Effects Coordinator

- Visual Effects Camera

Shannon Leigh Olds

Lauryl Duplechan

- Visual Effects Producer

- Visual Effects Producer

- Visual Effects Producer

- Visual Effects Producer

- Visual Effects Producer

- Visual Effects Producer

- Visual Effects Producer

- Visual Effects Producer

Adrienne Anderson

- Visual Effects Production Assistant

- Visual Effects Production Assistant

- Visual Effects Production Assistant

- Visual Effects Coordinator

- Visual Effects Supervisor

- Visual Effects Supervisor

- Visual Effects Supervisor

- Visual Effects Supervisor

- Visual Effects Supervisor

- Visual Effects Supervisor

Scott E. Anderson

- Visual Effects Supervisor

- VFX Director of Photography

Crew

Michael K. DeVaney

- Set Production Assistant

- Craft Service

- Digital Effects Supervisor

Miguel Ángel Poveda

- Post Production Supervisor

Timothy Holcombe

- Special Effects Coordinator

- Stunt Coordinator

- Systems Administrators & Support

- Transportation Captain

- Transportation Co-Captain

- Unit Publicist

- Utility Stunts

- Video Assist Operator

Brigitte Daloin

- Visual Effects Editor

- Visual Effects Art Director

David P. Barton

- Animatronics Designer

- Animatronics Designer

David Miner Jr.

- Animatronics Designer

Anette Haellmigk

- Second Unit Cinematographer

Darren Rydstrom

- Transportation Captain

- Transportation Co-Captain

- Video Assist Operator

- Video Assist Operator

- In Memory Of

- Technical Advisor

Mark De Alessandro

Paul Eliopoulos

Dana Dru Evenson

Jesse V. Johnson

Vinita McClennon

Cazimir Milostan

Francine Morris

Michael Papajohn

Gilbert Rosales

Jennifer German

- CG Supervisor

Louis Cetorelli

- CG Supervisor

Thomas Rosseter

- CG Supervisor

Heather Davis Baker

- CG Supervisor

Walter F. Hyneman

- CG Supervisor

Michael Sweeney

- Executive Visual Effects Producer

- Manager of Operations

Christopher Edwards

- Post Production Supervisor

- Pyrotechnician

- Pyrotechnician

- Software Engineer

- Software Engineer

- Software Engineer

Zoran Kacic-Alesic

- Software Engineer

- Special Effects Coordinator

David A. Schroeder

- Special Effects Technician

- Systems Administrators & Support

Hendrik te Winkel

- Systems Administrators & Support

Michael Scheffe

- Visual Effects Art Director

- Special Effects Technician

- Digital Supervisor

- Technical Advisor

Bruce Paul Barbour

Art

- Production Design

Bruce Robert Hill

- Art Direction

- Art Direction

- Set Decoration

Melanie S. Chretin

- Art Department Assistant

Deborah M. Silverman

- Art Department Manager

Robert Fechtman

- Assistant Art Director

Stacey S. McIntosh

- Construction Coordinator

- Construction Foreman

Gene 'Hap' Cooper

Steven Schwartz

- Set Designer

William A. Petrotta

- Property Master

Mario Torres Jr.

John Bevelheimer

- Concept Artist

Peter Gornstein

- Concept Artist

- Storyboard Artist

- Concept Artist

Jennifer Dawson

- Assistant Property Master

- Construction Buyer

Craig T. Shordon

- Set Painter

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