Cast
- Arnold Schwarzenegger as Jack Slater, Hamlet, and himself
- Austin O'Brien as Danny Madigan
- Charles Dance as Benedict
- Robert Prosky as Nick
- Tom Noonan as The Ripper and himself
- Joan Plowright as Danny's teacher
- Frank McRae as Lieutenant Dekker
- Anthony Quinn as Tony Vivaldi
- Bridgette Wilson as Whitney Slater and Meredith Caprice. Whitney is Jack's daughter, and Meredith is the actress who plays her in the Slater films.
- F. Murray Abraham as John Practice
- Mercedes Ruehl as Irene Madigan
- Jay Nijjar as Arnold Schwarzenegger's stunt double
- Art Carney, in his last film role, as Frank
- Sir Ian McKellen as Death
- Charles Kalani, Jr. as Tough Asian Man
- Ryan Todd as Andrew Slater
- Jason Smith as Danny's Friend
- Danny DeVito (uncredited) as the voice of Whiskers
- Cameo appearances
- Franco Columbu appears during the opening credits as producer of the new Slater movie.
- Tina Turner appears at the climax of Jack Slater III as the mayor of Los Angeles.
- When Danny and Slater arrive at LAPD headquarters, Sharon Stone and Robert Patrick appear outside the front door as Catherine Tramell (from Basic Instinct) and the T-1000 (from Terminator 2: Judgment Day), respectively. Stone had earlier played Schwarzenegger's wife in Total Recall.
- Sylvester Stallone as the Terminator on a poster promoting Terminator 2
- Model/actress Angie Everhart as a video store clerk
- After the house explosion, a dying cop paraphrases a line used by Danny Glover in Lethal Weapon 3 and a short piece of music from that film's soundtrack can be heard playing in the background. Similarly, following the car crash, Danny refers to Die Hard and an excerpt from that film's theme also briefly plays. Composer Michael Kamen wrote the score for both these other movies, while director John McTiernan also directed Die Hard.
- During the argument between Jack and the Lieutenant, the TV behind the lieutenant plays Predator, another Schwarzenegger film also directed by John McTiernan.
- During the premiere of Jack Slater IV in the real world, a number of celebrities appear as themselves. These include Schwarzenegger's then-wife Maria Shriver, Little Richard, Entertainment Tonight host Leeza Gibbons, James Belushi (who starred with Schwarzenegger in Red Heat), Damon Wayans, Chevy Chase, Timothy Dalton and Jean-Claude Van Damme (who worked with John McTiernan on the film Predator as the original Predator before dropping out)
- As Slater and Danny enter the movie theater to find Arnold Schwarzenegger, MC Hammer asks Slater about a deal to do the Slater V soundtrack.
- Ian McKellen makes a cameo as Death, after a screening of Ingmar Bergman's film, The Seventh Seal comes to life.
- Before the Hamlet sequence, in which the Laurence Olivier version is played on a projector, the teacher who introduces the film is Joan Plowright, an English actress and Laurence Olivier's third wife.
- In the video store sequence, a shelf contains VHS copies of The Hunt For Red October and Die Hard, two other films directed by John McTiernan.
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