 | Tom Hanks als Lawrence Whatley Bourne III |
 | John Candy als Tom Tuttle |
 | Rita Wilson als Beth Wexler |
 | Tim Thomerson als John Reynolds |
 | Gedde Watanabe als At Toon |
 | George Plimpton als Lawrence Bourne Jr. |
 | Ernest Harada als Chung Mee |
 | Allan Arbus als Albert Bardenaro |
 | Xander Berkeley als Kent Sutcliffe |
 | Ji-Tu Cumbuka als Cicero |
| Jacqueline Evans als Aunt Eunice |
| Pamela Gual als Tammy the Stewardess |
 | Chick Hearn als Announcer |
 | Virginia Kiser als Evelyn Bourne |
 | Clyde Kusatsu als Souvanna |
| Jude Mussetter als Bootsy Winder |
| Carlos Romano als Beatty |
| Duncan Ross als Noble |
 | Shakti Chen als Lucille |
 | Professor Toru Tanaka als Sumo Guard |
| Guillermo Río als Sumo Guard |
| Lonnie Wun als Sumo Guard |
 | Harry Yorku als Al Pe |
| Nicholas Meyer | Director |
| Keith Critchlow | Story |
| Ken Levine | Screenplay |
| David Isaacs | Screenplay |
| Walter F. Parkes | Producer |
| Richard Shepherd | Producer |
| Theodore R. Parvin | Associate Producer |
| James Horner | Music |
| Steve Polivka | Editor |
| Ronald Roose | Editor |
| Penny Ellers | Casting |
| Joyce Robinson | Casting |
| James L. Schoppe | Production Design |
| José Rodríguez Granada | Art Direction |
| Allan A. Apone | Makeup Designer |
| Del Armstrong | Makeup Supervisor |
| Raúl Esquivel | Wigmaker |
| Esperanza Gómez | Hairstylist |
| Alberto López | Makeup Artist |
| Josefina Mendoza | Hairstylist |
| Ric Waite | Director of Photography |
| Chris Jenkins | Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
| Robert Glass | Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
| Gary Alexander | Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
| Elie Cohn | First Assistant Director |
| Robert Easton | Dialect Coach |
| Leo J. Napolitano | Camera Operator |
| Claude Hitchcock | Sound Mixer |
| Heriberto Cárdenas | Cableman |
| Else Blangsted | Music Editor |
| Jim Weidman | Music Editor |
| Lon Bender | Supervising Sound Editor |
| Wylie Stateman | Supervising Sound Editor |
| Terry Lynn Allen | Sound Editor |
| Randy Kelley | Sound Editor |
| Elliott Koretz | Sound Editor |
| Dan M. Rich | Sound Editor |
| Stan Gilbert | ADR Editor |
| Mark P. Stoeckinger | ADR Editor |
| Lorna Anderson | Assistant Sound Editor |
| Joe Gilbert | Assistant Sound Editor |
| Jorge Sainz | Assistant Art Director |
| Ray Mercer Jr. | Property Master |
| Laurencio Cordero | Special Effects Coordinator |
| Salvador 'Apache' Serrano | Dolly Grip |
| Alfredo Ruvalcaba | Still Photographer |
| Brian Ralph | Negative Cutter |
| Kane Hodder | Stunts |
| BJ Davis | Stunt Coordinator |
| Denny Arnold | Stunts |
| Wayne King Sr. | Stunts |
| Rob King | Stunts |
| John Barrett | Stunts |
| Ellie Mite | Stunts |
| Paul Staples | Stunts |
| Alan Marcus | Stunts |
| Dianne L. Wilson | Stunts |
| Carl Boles | Gaffer |
| Claude King | Other |
