Trading Places - Cast

Cast

  • Dan Aykroyd as Louis Winthorpe III
  • Eddie Murphy as William Raymond "Billy Ray" Valentine
  • Ralph Bellamy as Randolph Duke
  • Don Ameche as Mortimer Duke
  • Denholm Elliott as Coleman
  • Jamie Lee Curtis as Ophelia
  • Kristin Holby as Penelope Witherspoon
  • Paul Gleason as Clarence Beeks

The cast also includes: Robert Curtis-Brown as Todd, Winthorpe's romantic rival for Penelope; James Belushi as Harvey, a party-goer on New Year's Eve; Jamie Lee Curtis' sister Kelly Curtis cameos as Penelope's friend Muffy; Frank Oz as a corrupt cop; and Bo Diddley as a pawnbroker. Tom Davis and Al Franken, Aykroyd and Murphy's Saturday Night Live coworkers, cameo as train baggage handlers.

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