The Iron Giant - Cast

Cast

• Eli Marienthal as Hogarth Hughes, an energetic, young, curious boy with an active imagination.
• Jennifer Aniston as Annie Hughes, a widow and Hogarth's single mother.
• Harry Connick, Jr. as Dean McCoppin, a beatnik artist and junkyard owner who "sees art where others see junk".
• Vin Diesel as The Iron Giant, fifty-foot, metal-eating robot. The Giant reacts defensively if it recognizes anything as a weapon, immediately attempting to destroy it, but can stop himself. The specific creator of the giant is never revealed. In a deleted scene, he has a brief vision of robots similar to him destroying a different planet. Peter Cullen was considered to do the voice.
• Christopher McDonald as Kent Mansley, an arrogant, ambitious and paranoid N.S.A. agent sent to investigate the Iron Giant.
• John Mahoney as General Rogard, the military leader in Washington, D.C. who strongly dislikes Mansley.
• M. Emmet Walsh as Earl Stutz, a sailor and the first man to see the robot.
• James Gammon as Marv Loach, a foreman who follows the robot's trail after it destroys the power station.
• Cloris Leachman as Mrs. Tensedge, Hogarth's no-nonsense schoolteacher.