Roddy McDowall

Narrator (voice)

Marc Wanamaker

Self

Richard Barthelmess

The Yellow Man (archive footage)

Charlie Chaplin

Self / Various roles (archive footage)

Jack Dempsey

Self (archive footage)

George Eastman

Self (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)

Florence Lawrence

Self (archive footage)

Mabel Normand

Self (archive footage)

Mary Pickford

Self / Various roles (archive footage)

Eugen Sandow

Self (archive footage)

Mack Swain

Big Jim McKay (archive footage)

Henry B. Walthall

Col. Ben Cameron (archive footage)