Premieres
USA Lee Daniels' The Butler premieres:
- August 16, 2013 - Cinema Premiere
Cast & Crew
Direction
Screenplay
- Danny Strong ... Screenplay
- Wil Haygood ... Story
Director of Photography
Music Composed By
Actors
- Forest Whitaker ... Cecil Gaines
- Minka Kelly ... Jacqueline Kennedy
- David Oyelowo ... Louis Gaines
- Colman Domingo ... Freddie Fallows
- Terrence Howard ... Howard
- Alan Rickman ... Ronald Reagan
- Danny Strong ... Freedom Bus Journalist
- Joe Chrest ... White Usher
- Dana Gourrier ... Helen Holloway
- Robin Williams ... Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Aml Ameen ... Cecil Gaines (15 Years Old)
- James DuMont ... Sherman Adams
- John Cusack ... Richard Nixon
- James Marsden ... John F. Kennedy
- Stephen Rider ... Admiral Rochon
- Mo McRae ... Eldridge Huggins
- Oprah Winfrey ... Gloria Gaines
- Mariah Carey ... Hattie Pearl
- Alex Manette ... Bob Haldeman
- Liev Schreiber ... Lyndon B. Johnson
- Cuba Gooding Jr. ... Carter Wilson
- Jane Fonda ... Nancy Reagan
- Jim Gleason ... R.D. Warner
- Colin Walker ... John Ehrlichman
- David Banner ... Earl Gaines
- Michael Rainey Jr. ... Cecil Gaines (8 Years Old)
- LaJessie Smith ... Abraham
- Alex Pettyfer ... Thomas Westfall
- Vanessa Redgrave ... Annabeth Westfall
- Clarence Williams III ... Maynard
- John P. Fertitta ... Mr. Jenkins
- Isaac White ... Charlie Gaines (10 Years Old)
- Adriane Lenox ... Gina
- Tyson Ford ... Elroy
- Lenny Kravitz ... James Holloway
- Pernell Walker ... Lorraine
- Robert Aberdeen ... Herbert Brownell
- Olivia Washington ... Olivia
- Yaya DaCosta ... Carol Hammie
- Jesse Williams ... James Lawson
- Margaret M. Owens ... Woolworth Diner Patron
- Eric Ducote ... Woolworth Diner Patron
- Chloe Barach ... Caroline Kennedy
- Clara Hopkins Daniels ... Freedom Bus Rider
- Elijah Kelley ... Charlie Gaines (15-18 Years Old)
- Shirley Pugh ... Malcolm X Goer
- Bill Newman ... Pastor
- Nelsan Ellis ... Martin Luther King Jr.
- Rusty Robertson ... Senator Robertson
- Nealla Gordon ... Senator Kassebaum
- Gerald Ford ... Self (archive footage)
