 | Harrison Ford | .... | President James Marshall |
 | Gary Oldman | .... | Ivan Korshunov |
 | Glenn Close | .... | Vice President Kathryn Bennett |
 | Wendy Crewson | .... | Grace Marshall |
 | Liesel Matthews | .... | Alice Marshall |
 | Paul Guilfoyle | .... | Chief of Staff Lloyd 'Shep' Shepherd |
 | Xander Berkeley | .... | Secret Service Agent Gibbs |
 | William H. Macy | .... | Major Caldwell |
 | Dean Stockwell | .... | Defense Secretary Walter Dean |
 | Tom Everett | .... | National Security Advisor Jack Doherty |
 | Jurgen Prochnow | .... | General Ivan Radek |
 | Donna Bullock | .... | Deputy Press Secretary Melanie Mitchel |
 | Michael Ray Miller | .... | Colonel Axelrod |
 | Carl Weintraub | .... | Lt. Colonel Ingraham |
 | Elester Latham | .... | AFO Navigator |
 | Elya Baskin | .... | Andrei Kolchak |
 | Levani | .... | Sergei Lenski |
 | David Vadim | .... | Igor Nevsky |
 | Andrew Divoff | .... | Boris Bazylev |
 | Ilia Volokh | .... | Vladimir Krasin |
 | Chris Howell | .... | Major Perkins |
 | Spencer Garrett | .... | White House Aide Thomas Lee |
 | Bill Smitrovich | .... | General Northwood |
 | Philip Baker Hall | .... | U.S. Atty. General Andrew Ward |
 | Albert Owens | .... | 'Football' Colonel |
 | Willard Pugh | .... | White House Communications Officer |
 | Michael Monks | .... | Assistant Press Secretary |
 | Alan Woolf | .... | Russian President Petrov |
 | Messiri Freeman | .... | Future Postmaster General |
 | Thomas Crawford | .... | Mike, Steward |
 | Fenton Lawless | .... | Joey, Steward |
 | Dan Shor | .... | Notre Dame Aide |
 | David Gianopoulos | .... | Agent Johnson |
 | Glenn Morshower | .... | Agent Walters |
 | Richard Doyle | .... | Colonel Bob Jackson, AFO Backup Pilot |
 | Don R. McManus | .... | F-15 Leader Colonel Carlton |
 | Duke Miglin | .... | F-15 Fighter Pilot 'Halo 2' |
 | Pavel D. Lychnikoff | .... | Prison Guard #1 |
 | Oleg Taktarov | .... | Prison Guard #2 |
 | Mario Roberts | .... | Special Service Agent #1 |
 | Keith Woulard | .... | Special Service Agent #2 |
 | J. Mark Donaldson | .... | Special Service Agent #3 |
 | Bruce Holman | .... | Special Service Agent #4 |
 | Brian Libby | .... | Phillips, AFO Chief Mechanic |
 | Diana Bellamy | .... | White House Switchboard Operator |
 | Thom Barry | .... | Ramstein S.O.F. Watch Officer |
 | Harry Hutchinson | .... | Ramstein Airbase Controller |
 | E. E. Bell | .... | Reporter #1 |
 | Mark Thompson | .... | Reporter #2 |
 | Marciarose Shestack | .... | Reporter #3 |
 | Ren Hanami | .... | Reporter #4 |
 | Suzanne Michaels | .... | CNN Anchorwoman |
 | Boris Krutonog | .... | MiG Leader |
 | Alex Veadov | .... | MiG Pilot |
 | Allan Kolman | .... | Kazakh Soldier |
 | Dan Barringer | .... | USAF Jumpmaster |
 | Mark Knutson | .... | Russian Jumpmaster |
 | Jim Harley | .... | Willis |
 | Aleks Shaklin | .... | Government Official |
 | Igor N. Lobotsky | .... | Russian Official |
 | Koko Kiledjian | .... | Russian Speaker |
 | Gordon Michaels | .... | USAF Radio Specialist #1 |
 | Robert Peters | .... | USAF Radio Specialist #2 |
 | Kristian Sorensen | .... | USAF Radio Specialist #3 |
 | Stuart Nixon | .... | USAF Security Agent |
 | Marty Rosen | .... | CIA Director |
 | Lee Faranda | .... | Russian Villain |
 | Mike Hambrick | .... | CNN Reporter |
 | Catherine T. Yang | .... | Asian TV Reporter |
 | David MacIsaac | .... | MC-130 Pilot 'Liberty 2-4' |
 | J. Scott Shonka | .... | Pararescue Jumper #1 |
 | Paul Sklar | .... | Pararescue Jumper #2 |
 | David Permenter | .... | Winch Recovery Master |
 | David O'Donnell | .... | Young Airman |
 | Paul Bishop | .... | Pilot (uncredited) |
 | Tony Boldi | .... | Ron Hersog (uncredited) |
 | Timothy Carhart | .... | Secret Service Agent at Checkpoint (uncredited) |
 | Robb Derringer | .... | Halo 2 (uncredited) |
 | George Meyers | .... | Secret Service Agent (uncredited) |
 | J. A. Preston | .... | White House General (uncredited) |
 | William Victor Skrabanek | .... | Russian Official (uncredited) |
 | Werner Sonne | .... | German Journalist (uncredited) |