 | Kurt Russell als Snake Plissken |
 | Lee Van Cleef als Police Commissioner Bob Hauk |
 | Ernest Borgnine als Cabbie |
 | Donald Pleasence als President of the United States |
 | Isaac Hayes als The Duke of New York |
 | Season Hubley als Girl in Chock Full O'Nuts |
 | Harry Dean Stanton als Harold 'Brain' Helman |
 | Adrienne Barbeau als Maggie |
 | Tom Atkins als Rehme |
 | Charles Cyphers als Secretary of State |
 | Frank Doubleday als Romero |
 | John Strobel als Cronenberg |
 | George Buck Flower als Drunk |
 | John Cothran als Gypsy #1 |
 | Nancy Stephens als Stewardess |
 | Steven Ford als Secret Service #2 |
 | John Carpenter als Secret Service #2 / Helicopter Pilot / Violin Player |
 | Jamie Lee Curtis als Narrator / Prison Recording Voice (voice) (uncredited) |
 | Nick Castle als Pianist (uncredited) |
 | Debra Hill als Computer (voice) (uncredited) |
 | Ox Baker als Slag |
| Joe Unger als Taylor |
| Garrett Bergfeld als Gypsy #2 |
| Mark A. Mangini | Dialogue Editor |
| Larry J. Franco | Producer |
| Larry J. Franco | First Assistant Director |
| David Cronenberg | Thanks |
| Dean Cundey | Director of Photography |
| Todd C. Ramsay | Editor |
| Debra Hill | Producer |
| Jake Eberts | Executive Producer |
| James Cameron | Visual Effects Art Director |
| Joe Alves | Production Design |
| Roy Arbogast | Special Effects Supervisor |
| John Carpenter | Screenplay |
| John Carpenter | Director |
| John Carpenter | Original Music Composer |
| Barry Bernardi | Associate Producer |
| Stephen Loomis | Costume Design |
| Nick Castle | Screenplay |
| James Winburn | Stunts |
| Ken Chase | Makeup Supervisor |
| Dick Warlock | Stunt Coordinator |
| Alan Howarth | Original Music Composer |
| Jim Lucas | Second Unit Director of Photography |
| Cloudia Rebar | Set Decoration |
| Jeffrey Chernov | Second Assistant Director |
| Tony Randel | Special Effects Coordinator |
| Bill Varney | Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
| Joseph F. Brennan | Boom Operator |
| Gary Zink | Special Effects |
| Joseph C. Fama | Propmaker |
| Alan Levine | Production Manager |
| Kevin Pike | Special Effects |
| Steve Maslow | Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
| Eddie Surkin | Special Effects |
| Nicholas James | Foley Editor |
| Warren Hamilton Jr. | Sound Editor |
| Gregg Landaker | Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
| Carl Fischer | Boom Operator |
| David Lewis Yewdall | Sound Editor |
| Marvin Salsberg | Construction Foreman |
| Lee B. Drygas | Swing |
| Steve Rice | Dialogue Editor |
| Thomas Causey | Sound Mixer |
| Serge Genitempo | Standby Painter |
| Mike Johnson | Stunts |
| Frankie Bergman | Hairstylist |
| Pat Patterson | Special Effects |
| Arthur Gelb | Graphic Designer |
| Eugene Booth | Assistant Property Master |
| Benjamin Douglas | Makeup Artist |
| Chris Horner | Assistant Art Director |
| Mike May | Property Master |
| Don Sutton | Leadman |
| Ed Zingel | Painter |
| Sol Aquino | Carpenter |
| Michael W. Moore | Propmaker |
| David Ritscher | Assistant Sound Editor |
| Brian Bevis | Special Effects |
