James Stewart

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as Self - Glenn Miller (archive footage)

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as Jacques (archive footage)

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as Wylie Burp (voice)

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as Self - Host

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as Miles Colbert

as Self

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as Teddy Dwyer

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as Mr. Krueger

as Old Man

as Self

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as Clovis Mitchell

as General Sternwood

as Guest Performer

as Self

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as Philip Stevens

as Self

as Dr. Hostetler

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as Billy Jim Hawkins

as Self

as Elwood P. Dowd

as Self (archive footage)

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as Prof. James K. Howard

as Mattie Appleyard

as Self

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as John O'Hanlan

as Mace Bishop

as Johnny Cobb

as Sam Burnett

as Frank Towns

as Charlie Anderson

as Professor Robert Leaf

as Wyatt Earp

as Narrator

as Frank Michaelson

as Linus Rawlings

as Slim Conway

as Self

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as Ransom Stoddard

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as Self - Co-Host

as Marshal Guthrie McCabe

as James Stewart

as Major Baldwin

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as John Michael ('Chip') Hardesty

as Paul "Pauly" Biegler

as Shep Henderson

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as Det. John 'Scottie' Ferguson

as Grant McLaine

as Charles Augustus 'Slim' Lindbergh

as Ben McKenna

as Self - Presenter

as Will Lockhart

as Robert "Dutch" Holland

as Self

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as L.B. Jefferies

as Jeff Webster

as Glenn Miller

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as Steve Martin

as Self

as Joe Newman

as Britt Ponset

as Bart

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as Marsh Williams

as Buttons

as Glyn McLyntock

as Elwood P. Dowd

as Narrator

as Theodore Honey

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as Bill Lawrence

as Jimmy Stewart

as Self

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as Lin McAdam

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as Tom Destry Jr.

as Jefferson Smith

as Guy Johnson

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as John 'Truck' Cross

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as Ted Barker

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as Roderick "Rowdy" Dow

as Terry Martin

as Elmer Clampett

as Cornelius 'Corn' Stevens

as Dave

as John Flower

as Christopher Tyler

as Shorty

as Jack Burton

as Narrator