Harrison Ford
as President James Marshall

Gary Oldman
as Ivan Korshunov

Glenn Close
as Vice President Kathryn Bennett

Wendy Crewson
as Grace Marshall

Liesel Matthews
as Alice Marshall

Paul Guilfoyle
as Chief of Staff Lloyd 'Shep' Shepherd

Xander Berkeley
as Secret Service Agent Gibbs

William H. Macy
as Major Caldwell

Dean Stockwell
as Defense Secretary Walter Dean

Tom Everett
as National Security Advisor Jack Doherty

Jürgen Prochnow
as General Ivan Radek

Donna Bullock
as Deputy Press Secretary Melanie Mitchel

Michael Ray Miller
as Colonel Axelrod

Carl Weintraub
as Lt. Colonel Ingraham

Elester Latham
as AFO Navigator

Elya Baskin
as Andrei Kolchak

Levan Uchaneishvili
as Sergei Lenski

David Vadim
as Igor Nevsky

Andrew Divoff
as Boris Bazylev

Ilia Volok
as Vladimir Krasin

Chris Howell
as Major Perkins

Spencer Garrett
as White House Aide Thomas Lee

Bill Smitrovich
as General Northwood

Philip Baker Hall
as U.S. Attorney General Ward

Albert Owens
as 'Football' Colonel

Willard E. Pugh
as White House Comm. Officer

Michael Monks
as Assistant Press Secretary

Alan Woolf
as Russian President Petrov

Messiri Freeman
as Future Postmaster General

Thomas Crawford
as Steward Mike

Fenton Lawless
as Steward Joey

Dan Shor
as Notre Dame Aide

David Gianopoulos
as Agent Johnson

Glenn Morshower
as Agent Walters

Richard Doyle
as A.F.O. Back-up Pilot

Don McManus
as F-15 Leader Colonel Carlton

Duke Miglin
as F-15 'Halo 2' Fighter Pilot

Pasha D. Lychnikoff
as Prison Guard #1 (as Pavel D. Lychnikoff)

Oleg Taktarov
as Prison Guard #2

Mario Roberts
as Secret Service Agent #1

Keith Woulard
as Secret Service Agent #2

J. Mark Donaldson
as Secret Service Agent #3

Bruce Holman
as Secret Service Agent #4

Brian Libby
as Chief Mechanic

Diana Bellamy
as Switchboard Operator

Thom Barry
as Ramstein S.O.F. Watch Officer

Harry Hutchinson
as Ramstein Airbase Controller

E.E. Bell
as Reporter #1

Mark Thompson
as Reporter #2

Alex Veadov
as MiG Pilot

Marciarose Shestack
as Reporter #3

Boris Lee Krutonog
as MiG Leader

Ren Hanami
as Reporter #4

Titus Welliver
as Military Officer in White House Situation Room (uncredited)

Timothy Carhart
as Secret Service Agent at Checkpoint (uncredited)

Gwendoline Yeo
as FBI Agent (uncredited)