Cast
- Tom Hanks as Captain John H. Miller
- Tom Sizemore as Technical Sergeant Mike Horvath
- Edward Burns as Private First Class Richard Reiben, an automatic rifleman
- Barry Pepper as Private Daniel Jackson, a sniper
- Adam Goldberg as Private Stanley "Fish" Mellish, a rifleman
- Vin Diesel as Private First Class Adrian Caparzo
- Giovanni Ribisi as Technician Fourth Grade Irwin Wade, a medic
- Jeremy Davies as Technician Fifth Grade Timothy E. Upham, a cartographer
- Matt Damon as Private First Class James Francis Ryan, a paratrooper
- Ted Danson as Captain Fred Hamill, a pathfinder
- Paul Giamatti as Staff Sergeant William Hill, a paratrooper
- Dennis Farina as Lieutenant Colonel Walter Anderson
- Harrison Young as James Francis Ryan, present day
- Kathleen Byron as Mrs. Ryan, present day
- Harve Presnell as General George C. Marshall, Chief of Staff of the United States Army
- Leland Orser as Second Lieutenant DeWindt, pilot of a crashed glider
- Bryan Cranston as Colonel I. W. Bryce, an officer at the War Department
- Dale Dye as an officer at the War Department
- Nathan Fillion as Private James Frederick Ryan
- Max Martini as Corporal Fred Henderson, ranking NCO paratrooper at Ramelle
- Demetri Goritsas as Private Parker, a paratrooper
- Joerg Stadler as "Steamboat Willie", a German soldier
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