The Quick and The Dead (1995 Film) - Cast

Cast

• Sharon Stone as Ellen ("The Lady"): The tournament's only female gunfighter has a personal vendetta against Herod for tricking her into killing her father, and finds an ally in Cort. When they have to eliminate one another, neither draw their guns at first; when Cort shoots her, everyone believes she has died, but she comes back to shoot Herod. Stacy Linn Ramsower plays Young Ellen in flashbacks.
• Gene Hackman as John Herod: Herod rules over the town from his mansion in its center; his mercenaries enforce his will, posing as the town's "Councilors". He also develops an attraction to Ellen, and invites her to dinner one night, where he reveals that he also has a tragic backstory: his father, a judge, forced him to watch people he had sentenced being hanged, and forced his family to play Russian roulette with him which resulted in Herod's father's death.
• Russell Crowe as Cort: Herod's former right-hand man, who abandoned his violent career in favor of a peaceful religious life after Herod forced him to kill a priest who nursed him and Herod back to health once. Herod has Foy and Ratsy burn Cort's mission to the ground and force him to join the competition. He is arguably the fastest and most skilled shooter in Redemption after Herod himself.
• Leonardo DiCaprio as Fee "The Kid" Herod: Fee claims to be the son of John Herod and makes a living as the town's gunsmith and enters the tournament hoping to earn his father's acknowledgment and respect. He develops a crush on Ellen, and although she claims the opposite, she deeply cares for him and is greatly saddened when he is killed by Herod. Though Herod insists that he is not Fee's father, his attempts to make him drop out of the tournament and sad reaction to his death hint otherwise.
• Pat Hingle as Horace: Proprietor of the town's only saloon and manager of the gunfighter tournament.
• Roberts Blossom as Doc Wallace: Redemption's local doctor for as long as anyone can remember. He forms an alliance with Lady and Cort to stop Herod's oppression.
• Kevin Conway as Eugene Dred: Local pedophile who is goaded by The Kid into joining the tournament. Killed by Ellen in an unofficial duel after he rapes Horace's young daughter Katie.
• Keith David as Sgt. Clay Cantrell: Former Union soldier of the American Civil War. Cantrell is hired by the town to participate in the tournament in the hopes he will eliminate Herod in the process. He defeats Virgil Sparks in the first round before being killed by Herod in a duel to "make an example of him".
• Lance Henriksen as Ace Hanlon: Trick shot performer who also entertains by telling tall tales of his exploits. He is however a fraud on several accounts and far less skilled than he claims. He is easily killed by Herod.
• Mark Boone Junior as Scars: Outlaw who was sentenced to 35 years for murder, but escaped after a mere three days. He is bald, filthy and blind in one eye. Scars is eventually killed by the Kid.
• Tobin Bell as Dog Kelly: Outlaw bent on finding some buried loot, but he seems to have forgotten its location. His name comes from an incident in his backstory where he had to eat his beloved dog or die of starvation, and gets angry when anyone brings it up. Wounded by Ellen in the tournament and then killed by her in self-defense.
• Raynor Scheine as Ratsy: Herod's errant henchman who revels in torturing Cort, even when Cort smashes his nose twice. Herod orders him to injure Cort's hand before their duel, but then publicly accuses him of it and shoots him dead.
• Jonothon Gill as Spotted Horse: Sioux gunfighter who has a reputation for being impossible to kill. His body is covered with 14 bullet wounds; shot in the head by Cort after surviving a shot in the stomach.
• Olivia Burnette as Katie: Horace's teenager daughter who also idolizes Ellen.
• Gary Sinise as The Marshal: Ellen's father who was accidentally killed by young Ellen as she attempted to save him from being hanged by Herod, which was something Herod himself had orchestrated while attacking and taking over Redemption.
• Lennie Loftin as Flat Nose Foy: Gunfighter with bad teeth and a brood of ill-tempered young children. Wounded by Cort in the first round.
• Sven-Ole Thorsen as Swede Gutzon: Champion shooter from his native country of Sweden, a title nobody takes seriously. Wounded by The Kid in the first round and eliminated.
• Josef Rainer as Virgil Sparks: The self-proclaimed "pride of Texas" he is wounded by Clay Cantrell in the first round and eliminated.
• Scott Spiegel as Gold Teeth Man: Eccentric street vendor of Redemption.
• Woody Strode as Charlie Moonlight: Coffin maker for the town of Redemption (Strode died only a day or two into the production and can be momentarily seen in the background at the start of the film, when Sharon Stone rides into town, otherwise he does not appear).