| 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 Shepherd |
| Xander Berkeley | | Agent Gibbs |
| William H. Macy | | Major Caldwell |
| Dean Stockwell | | Defense Secretary Walter Dean |
| Tom Everett | | NSA Advisor Jack Doherty |
| Jürgen Prochnow | | General Alexander Radek |
| Donna Bullock | | Press Secretary Melanie Mitchell |
| Michael Ray Miller | | AFO Pilot Colonel Axelrod |
| Carl Weintraub | | AFO Co-Pilot Lt. Col. Ingrahams |
| Elester Latham | | AFO Navigator / Major Bridges |
| Elya Baskin | | Andrei Kolchak |
| Levani | | Sergei Lenski |
| David Vadim | | Igor Nevsky |
| Andrew Divoff | | Boris Bazylev |
| Ilia Volok | | Vladimir Krasin |
| Chris Howell | | Major Perkins |
| Spencer Garrett | | White House Aide Thom |
| Bill Smitrovich | | General Northwood |
| Philip Baker Hall | | U.S. Attorney General Ward |
| Albert Owens | | 'Football' Colonel |
| Willard E. Pugh | | White House Comm. Officer |
| Michael Monks | | Assistant Press Secretary |
| Alan Woolf | | Russian President Petrov |
| Messiri Freeman | | Future Postmaster General |
| Thomas Crawford | | Steward Mike |
| Fenton Lawless | | Steward Joey |
| Dan Shor | | Notre Dame Aide |
| David Gianopoulos | | Agent Johnson |
| Glenn Morshower | | Agent Walters |
| Richard Doyle | | A.F.O. Back-up Pilot |
| Don McManus | | F-15 Leader Colonel Carlton |
| Duke Miglin | | F-15 'Halo 2' Fighter Pilot |
| Pasha D. Lychnikoff | | Prison Guard #1 |
| Oleg Taktarov | | Prison Guard #2 |
| Mario Roberts | | Secret Service Agent #1 |