Captain Steven 'Steve' Hiller	Will Smith
President Thomas J. Whitmore	Bill Pullman
David Levinson	Jeff Goldblum
First Lady Marilyn Whitmore	Mary McDonnell
Julius Levinson	Judd Hirsch
General William Grey	Robert Loggia
Russel Casse	Randy Quaid
Jasmine Dubrow	Vivica A. Fox
Constance 'Connie' Spano	Margaret Colin
Secretary of Defence Albert Nimziki	James Rebhorn
Marty Gilbert	Harvey Fierstein
Major Mitchell	Adam Baldwin
Dr. Brakish Okun	Brent Spiner
S.E.T.I. Chief	Erick Avari (uncredited)
Man in Office	Volker Engel (cameo)
Eagle 2 Pilot saying "I'm on it!"	Dean Devlin (voice cameo)

Directed by	Roland Emmerich
Written by	Dean Devlin & Roland Emmerich
Produced by	Dean Devlin
Executive Producers	Roland Emmerich Ute Emmerich William Fay
Director of Photography	Karl Walter Lindenlaub, BVK
Production Designers	Oliver Scholl & Patrick Tatopoulos
Edited by	David Brenner
Music by	David Arnold
Costume Designer	Joseph Porro
Associate Producer	Peter Winther
Casting by	Wendy Kurtzman, C.S.A.
Unit Production Manager	Kelly Van Horn
First Assistant Director	Sergio Mimica-Gezzan
Second Assistant Director	Kim H. Winther
Visual Effects Supervisors	Volker Engel Douglas Smith
Digital Effects Supervisor/Producer	Tricia Ashford
Alien Creature Effects Designed and Supervised by	Patrick Tatopoulos
Visual Effects Producer	Terry Clotiaux
Miniature Pyrotechnics / Mechanical Effects Supervisor	Joseph Viskocil
Model Shop Supervisor	Michael Joyce
Mechanical Effects Supervisor	Clay Pinney