Cast
- Mel Gibson as Bret Maverick
- Jodie Foster as Annabelle Bransford
- James Garner as Marshal Zane Cooper
- Graham Greene as Joseph
- Alfred Molina as Angel
- James Coburn as Commodore Duvall
- Geoffrey Lewis as Matthew Wicker
- Paul L. Smith as The Archduke
- Max Perlich as Johnny Hardin
There are multiple cameo appearances in the film from Western actors, people who have formerly worked with Donner, Gibson, Foster, or Garner, and other celebrities including: Danny Glover, Hal Ketchum and Corey Feldman as bank robbers; Read Morgan and Steve Kahan as card dealers; Dub Taylor as a room clerk; Art LaFleur and Leo Gordon as poker players at Maverick's first game; Paul Brinegar as the stagecoach driver; Denver Pyle as an old gambler; Robert Fuller, Doug McClure and Henry Darrow as riverboat poker players; Dan Hedaya as Twitchy, another Riverboat Poker Player; Dennis Fimple as Stuttering, a player beaten by the Commodore; Bert Remsen as an elderly riverboat gambler beaten by Maverick; and Margot Kidder as missionary Mary Margaret in an uncredited appearance. Glover's cameo appearance references Donner's Lethal Weapon film series starring Glover and Gibson as cop partners. Their meeting in Maverick sees them share a moment of recognition.
Country singers also cameo including Carlene Carter as a waitress, Waylon Jennings and Kathy Mattea as a gambling couple with concealed guns, Reba McEntire, Clint Black as a sweet-faced gambler thrown overboard for cheating, and Vince Gill and his then-wife Janis Gill (as Janice Gill) as spectators.
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