Characters in "Dead Man's Walk"
The names in parentheses are the names of the actors who portrayed the specified character in the movie.
- Augustus McCrae (David Arquette) – Texas Ranger
- Woodrow Call (Jonny Lee Miller) – Texas Ranger
- Long Bill Coleman (Ray McKinnon) – Texas Ranger
- Johnny Carthage (Tim Blake Nelson) – Texas Ranger
- Colonel Caleb Cobb (F. Murray Abraham) – pirate who leads the Santa Fe expedition
- Bigfoot Wallace (Keith Carradine) – scout
- Shadrach (Harry Dean Stanton) – scout
- Matilda Roberts (Patricia Childress) – whore, also known as "The Great Western"
- Captain Salazar (Edward James Olmos) – Mexican who takes the Texan prisoners across the desert
- Major Laroche (Joaquim de Almeida) – Frenchman in the Mexican military, who takes the prisoners to the leper colony
- Buffalo Hump (Eric Schweig) – Comanche war chief
- Kicking Wolf (Jonathan Joss) – Comanche warrior, accomplished thief
- Clara Forsythe (Jennifer Garner) – young lady in a general store in Austin, who 'smites' Gus
- Lady Lucinda Carey (Haviland Morris) – Scottish nobility, leper
- Willy (Adam Lamberg) – Lady Carey's son
- Mrs. Chubb – Lady Carey's attendant
- Emerald (Akosua Busia) – Lady Carey's attendant
- Maggie Tilton (Gretchen Mol) – a whore who loves Woodrow F. Call.
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