Adrienne Barbeau

Maggie

Isaac Hayes

The Duke of New York

Kurt Russell

Snake Plissken

Harry Dean Stanton

Harold 'Brain' Helman

John Cothran

Gypsy #1

Nancy Stephens

Stewardess

Ernest Borgnine

Cabbie

Tom Atkins

Rehme

Jamie Lee Curtis

Narrator / Prison Recording Voice (uncredited)

John Carpenter

Secret Service #2 / Helicopter Pilot / Violin Player

George Buck Flower

Drunk

Nick Castle

Pianist

Steven Ford

Secret Service #2

Donald Pleasence

President of the United States

Joe Unger

Taylor

Charles Cyphers

Secretary of State

Frank Doubleday

Romero

Lee Van Cleef

Police Commissioner Bob Hauk

Season Hubley

Girl in Chock Full O'Nuts

John Strobel

Cronenberg

Debra Hill

Computer (voice)

Ox Baker

Slag

Garrett Bergfeld

Gypsy #2

Wally Taylor

Controller