Dick Tracy (1990 Film) - Cast

Cast

Main characters

• Warren Beatty as Dick Tracy: Square-jawed detective sporting a yellow overcoat and fedora. He is heavily committed to break the organized crime that infests in the city. In addition, Tracy is in line to become the chief of police, which he scorns as a "desk job".
• Al Pacino as Alphonse "Big Boy" Caprice: The main antagonist and the leading crime boss of the city. Although he is involved with numerous criminal activities, they remain unproven, as Tracy has never been able to catch him in the act or find a witness to testify.
• Madonna as Breathless Mahoney: An entertainer at Club Ritz who is interested in stealing Tracy from his girlfriend. She is also the sole witness to several of Caprice's crimes and is eventually revealed to be The Blank.
• Glenne Headly as Tess Trueheart: Dick Tracy's girlfriend. She tries to convince him to enjoy life, as well as marry her.
• Charlie Korsmo as The Kid: A scrawny street orphan who survives by eating out of garbage cans. He falls into the life of both Tracy and Trueheart and becomes an ally.

Law enforcement

• Seymour Cassel as Sam Catchem Tracey's closest associate.
• Michael J. Pollard as Bug Bailey: A surveillance expert.
• Charles Durning as Chief Brandon: The chief of police, who supports Tracy's crusade.
• Dick Van Dyke as District Attorney John Fletcher: A district attorney who does the bidding of Caprice as a victim of extortion.
• Frank Campanella as Judge Harper

The mob

• Dustin Hoffman as Mumbles: Caprice's fast-talking henchman.
• William Forsythe as Flattop: Caprice's top hitman. His most distinguishing feature is his square, flat cranium and matching haircut.
• James Tolkan as Numbers: Caprice's accountant.
• Mandy Patinkin as 88 Keys: A piano player at Club Ritz who becomes The Blank's minion.
• R. G. Armstrong as Pruneface: A deformed crime boss who becomes one of Caprice's minions. He is very obsessed with killing Tracy, but he gets shot to death in his warehouse's trap by the Blank.
• Henry Silva as Influence: Pruneface's sinister top gunman who accompanies Pruneface into siding with Caprice.
• Paul Sorvino as Lips Manlis: The original owner of Club Ritz and Caprice's original mentor. He was killed by Caprice upon signing his assets over to him.
• James Caan as Spuds Spaldoni: A crime boss who refuses to submit to Caprice, and dies in a car bomb.
• Catherine O'Hara as Texie Garcia: A female criminal who submits to Caprice.
• Robert Beecher as Ribs Mocca: A criminal who submits to Caprice.

Hamilton Camp appears as a store owner. Robert Costanzo cameos as Lips Manlis' bodyguard. Allen Garfield, John Schuck, and Charles Fleischer make cameos as reporters. Walker Edmiston, John Moschitta, Jr., and Neil Ross provide the voices of each radio announcer. Mike Mazurki (who played Splitface in the original Dick Tracy film) appears in a small cameo.