Onder andere met: Kurt Russell (Snake Plissken), Lee Van Cleef (Hauk), Ernest Borgnine (Cabbie), Donald Pleasence (President), Isaac Hayes (The Duke), Harry Dean Stanton (Brain), Adrienne Barbeau (Maggie), Tom Atkins (Rehme), Charles Cyphers (Secretary of State), Joe Unger (Taylor), Frank Doubleday (Romero), John Strobel (Cronenberg), Season Hubley (Girl in Chock Full O'Nuts)