| Actor | Kirk Douglas (as Capt. Matthew Yelland, Commanding Officer, USS Nimitz), Martin Sheen (as Warren Lasky), Katharine Ross (as Laurel Scott), James Farentino (as Cmdr. Richard T. "Dick" Owens, Commander of Carrier Air Wing 8 / Richard Tideman, head of Tideman Industries), Ron O'Neal (as Cmdr. Dan Thurman, Executive Officer, USS Nimitz), Charles Durning (as Senator Samuel S. Chapman), Victor Mohica (as Black Cloud, USS Nimitz weather officer), James Coleman (as Lt. Perry), Soon-Tek Oh (as IJN pilot Shimura), Joe Lowry (as Cmdr. Damon), Alvin Ing (as Lt. Kajima), Mark Thomas (as Marine Cpl. Kullman), Harold Bergman (as Bellman), Dan Fitzgerald (as Navy doctor), Lloyd Kaufman (as Lt. Cmdr. Kaufman) |
