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American Experience Cast

411 cast members · 76 with popularity data
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Sorted by Buzz Score · April 14, 2026
1
Tom Hanks
Narrator (voice) · 1 eps
6.9
#322 overall
2
Martin Luther King Jr.
Himself (archive footage) · 2 eps
6.0
#437 overall
3
Morgan Freeman
Narrator (voice) · 2 eps
5.5
#522 overall
4
Robert Redford
Self - Narrator (voice) · 2 eps
5.4
#543 overall
5
Susan Sarandon
Narrator (voice) · 3 eps
5.2
#573 overall
6
Donald Sutherland
Narrator (voice) · 1 eps
5.2
#577 overall
7
Robert Duvall
Narrator (voice) · 1 eps
4.7
#676 overall
8
Glenn Close
Self - Narrator (voice) · 1 eps
4.3
#801 overall
9
Kenneth Branagh
Narrator (voice) · 1 eps
4.1
#867 overall
10
Randy Quaid
Narrator (voice) · 2 eps
3.9
#953 overall
11
Liev Schreiber
Narrator (voice) · 8 eps
3.3
#1,212 overall
12
Christopher Plummer
Narrator · 1 eps
3.1
#1,351 overall
13
Laura Linney
Narrator (voice) · 2 eps
3.1
#1,361 overall
14
Mandy Patinkin
Narrator (voice) · 1 eps
3.1
#1,370 overall
15
Keith Carradine
Narrator (voice) · 1 eps
2.7
#1,639 overall
16
Jeffrey Wright
Narrator (voice) · 1 eps
2.6
#1,730 overall
17
Andre Braugher
Narrator (voice) · 4 eps
2.6
#1,793 overall
18
F. Murray Abraham
Self - Narrator (voice) · 1 eps
2.2
#2,225 overall
19
Judith Light
Narrator (voice) · 1 eps
2.0
#2,436 overall
20
Scott Glenn
Narrator (voice) · 2 eps
1.9
#2,566 overall
21
Oliver Platt
Narrator (voice) · 12 eps
1.9
#2,576 overall
22
Ellen Burstyn
Narrator (voice) · 1 eps
1.9
#2,581 overall
23
Roy Scheider
Narrator (voice) · 1 eps
1.9
#2,627 overall
24
Stacy Keach
Narrator (voice) · 4 eps
1.7
#2,897 overall
25
Mary McDonnell
Narrator (voice) · 1 eps
1.7
#2,967 overall
26
Peter Krause
Narrator · 2 eps
1.6
#3,049 overall
27
Chris Cooper
Narrator (voice) · 1 eps
1.6
#3,075 overall
28
Bugsy Siegel
Self (archive footage) · 1 eps
1.6
#3,199 overall
29
Brian Dennehy
Aaron Burr (voice) · 1 eps
1.6
#3,212 overall
30
Len Cariou
Narrator (voice) · 1 eps
1.5
#3,260 overall
31
Richard Thomas
Narrator (voice) · 1 eps
1.5
#3,286 overall
32
Jason Robards
Narrator (voice) · 7 eps
1.5
#3,381 overall
33
Kate Burton
Narrator · 2 eps
1.5
#3,474 overall
34
Hal Holbrook
Narrator (voice) · 1 eps
1.4
#3,489 overall
35
Linda Hunt
Self - Narrator (voice) · 12 eps
1.4
#3,494 overall
36
David Ogden Stiers
Narrator (voice) · 31 eps
1.4
#3,588 overall
37
Alfre Woodard
Narrator (voice) · 2 eps
1.3
#3,756 overall
38
Jesse Owens
Self · 1 eps
1.3
#3,782 overall
39
Lea Salonga
Narrator · 1 eps
1.3
#3,909 overall
40
Courtney B. Vance
Narrator (voice) · 1 eps
1.2
#4,180 overall
41
Joe Mantegna
Narrator (voice) · 1 eps
1.2
#4,287 overall
42
Peter Coyote
Narrator (voice) · 2 eps
1.1
#4,335 overall
43
Cherry Jones
Narrator (voice) · 1 eps
1.0
#4,744 overall
44
René Auberjonois
Woodrow Wilson (voice) · 2 eps
1.0
#4,774 overall
45
Marion Ross
Edith Bolling-Galt (voice) · 1 eps
1.0
#4,827 overall
46
James Avery
Narrator (voice) · 1 eps
1.0
#5,020 overall
47
Héctor Elizondo
Narrator (voice) · 2 eps
1.0
#5,074 overall
48
Colm Feore
Narrator (voice) · 1 eps
0.9
#5,386 overall
49
Louis Zamperini
Self · 1 eps
0.9
#5,451 overall
50
Campbell Scott
Narrator (voice) · 5 eps
0.8
#5,646 overall
51
Hal Linden
Narrator (voice) · 1 eps
0.8
#5,660 overall
52
Garrison Keillor
Narrator (voice) · 1 eps
0.7
#6,383 overall
53
Renée Elise Goldsberry
Narrator · 1 eps
0.7
#6,667 overall
54
Joe Morton
Narrator (voice) · 8 eps
0.7
#6,670 overall
55
Harris Yulin
Narrator (voice) · 1 eps
0.6
#6,951 overall
56
Simon Russell Beale
John Adams (voice) · 1 eps
0.6
#6,952 overall
57
Ruby Dee
Narrator (voice) · 1 eps
0.6
#7,374 overall
58
Carl Lumbly
Narrator (voice) · 1 eps
0.5
#7,562 overall
59
Hume Cronyn
Narrator (voice) · 1 eps
0.5
#7,707 overall
60
Roger Rees
William Bradford · 1 eps
0.5
#8,440 overall
61
André Holland
Narrator · 1 eps
0.4
#8,689 overall
62
Blair Brown
Narrator (voice) · 6 eps
0.4
#9,268 overall
63
David McCullough
Narrator (voice) · 14 eps
0.4
#9,414 overall
64
Anna Deavere Smith
Narrator (voice) · 1 eps
0.3
#11,010 overall
65
Sada Thompson
Narrator (voice) · 1 eps
0.2
#12,908 overall
66
Charles Kuralt
Self - Narrator (voice) · 1 eps
0.2
#13,237 overall
67
Philip Bosco
Narrator (voice) · 1 eps
0.2
#14,557 overall
68
Guy Walters
Self · 1 eps
0.1
#16,285 overall
69
Eric Sevareid
Self · 1 eps
0.1
#17,287 overall
70
William Stanley Merwin
Narrator (voice) · 1 eps
0.1
#18,564 overall
71
Harry Edwards
Self · 1 eps
0.1
#20,763 overall
72
Jeremy Schaap
Self · 1 eps
0.0
#21,531 overall
73
Dion Graham
Self - Narrator (voice) · 3 eps
0.0
#21,699 overall
74
Ping Wu
Narrator (voice) · 1 eps
0.0
#23,256 overall
75
Richard Ben Cramer
Narrator (voice) · 3 eps
0.0
#25,592 overall
76
Stephen Ives
Himself - Director · 1 eps
0.0
#27,836 overall
77
Irv Drasnin
Narrator (voice) · 2 eps
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78
Sam Grey
Felix Frankfurter (voice) · 1 eps
—
79
Russell Baker
Narrator (voice) · 4 eps
—
80
Lisa Emond
Abigail Adams (voice) · 1 eps
—
81
Mitchell McCann
Jesse James · 1 eps
—
82
Brian Paulette
Frank James · 1 eps
—
83
Marilyn Spanier
Annie Oakley (voice) · 1 eps
—
84
Nicholas Purcell
Charles Adams · 1 eps
—
85
Hilmar Dressler
Self · 1 eps
—
86
Professor Margaret MacMillan
Self · 1 eps
—
87
Theodor Michael
Self · 1 eps
—
88
William Rhoden
Self · 1 eps
—
89
Volker Kluge
Self · 1 eps
—
90
Rainer Rother
Self · 1 eps
—
91
Iris Cummings Critchell
Self · 1 eps
—
92
David Wallechinsky
Self · 1 eps
—
93
William J. Baker
Self · 1 eps
—
94
Susan Ware
Self · 1 eps
—
95
Rafael Medoff
Self · 1 eps
—
96
Marlene Owens Rankin
Self · 1 eps
—
97
Beverly Owens Prather
Self · 1 eps
—
98
David Clay Large
Self · 1 eps
—
99
Louis Stokes
Self · 1 eps
—
100
Joanna Rhinehart
Narrator · 1 eps
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