Cicely Tyson

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Ruthana Richardson

Blair Underwood

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Bob Richardson

Sally Kirkland

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Mrs. Canfield

James Earl Jones

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Junius Johnson

Margaret Avery

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Roxie Turpin

David Strathairn

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Bill Thomas

Glenn Plummer

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J.T. Turpin

Vondie Curtis-Hall

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Clifford Turpin

Paris Vaughan

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Lada

Harold Pruett

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John Riggs