The Adams Chronicles - Cast

Cast

Adams family

• George Grizzard as John Adams (Chapters I–VI, VIII–IX)
• Kathryn Walker as Abigail Adams (Chapters I–IV)
• Leora Dana as Abigail Adams (ages 44–74) (Chapters V–VI, VIII)
• Addison Powell as The Reverend Smith (father of Abigail Adams) (Chapter I)
• Nancy Marchand as Mrs. Smith (mother of Abigail Adams) (Chapters I–II)
• J. C. Powell as Charles Adams (boy) (Chapters II–III)
• Philip Anglim as Charles Adams (Chapter V)
• Tom V. V. Tammi as Thomas Adams (Chapters V–VI)
• Marcel Trenchard as John Quincy Adams (boy) (Chapter II)
• Steve Austin as John Quincy Adams (youth) (Chapter II)
• Steven Grover as John Quincy Adams (youth) (Chapter III)
• Mark Winkworth as John Quincy Adams (Chapters IV–V)
• David Birney as John Quincy Adams (Chapter VII only)
• William Daniels as John Quincy Adams (Chapters VIII–X)
• Pamela Payton-Wright as Louisa Catherine Adams (Chapter VII)
• Katherine Houghton as Abigail Adams II (Chapters IV, VI)
• Richard Cox as Col. William Stephens Smith (husband of Abigail Adams II) (Chapter IV)
• Maureen Anderman as Mary Catherine Hellen (wife of John Adams) (Chapters VIII–X)
• Steven Krey as Charles Francis Adams (boy) (Chapter VII)
• Thomas A. Stewart as Charles Francis Adams (Chapters VIII–X)
• John Beal as Charles Francis Adams (Chapters XI–XIII)
• Nancy Coleman as Abigail Brown Brooks Adams (wife of Charles Francis Adams) (Chapters XI–XIII)
• Peter Brandon as Henry Adams (Chapters XII–XIII)
• Charles Siebert as Charles Francis Adams II (Chapters XII–XIII)
• Nicholas Pryor as John Quincy Adams II (Chapters XII–XIII)

U.S. politicians

• W. B. Brydon as Samuel Adams (cousin of John Adams) (Chapters I–II)
• Curt Dawson as John Hancock (Chapters I–II)
• William Shust as Patrick Henry (Chapter II)
• John Wylie as John Dickinson (Chapter II)
• Robert Symonds as Benjamin Franklin (Chapters II–III)
• Albert Stratton as Thomas Jefferson (Chapters II, IV–VI)
• James Congdon as James Lovell (Chapter III)
• James Tripp as Francis Dana (Chapter III)
• David Hooks as George Washington (Chapter V)
• Jeremiah Sullivan as Alexander Hamilton (Chapters V–VI)
• Michael Egan as General Knox (Chapter V)
• Karl Light as Senator Izard (Chapter V)
• Ken Kercheval as James Madison (Chapters V, VII)
• Henry Butler as James Monroe (Chapters V, VII–VIII)
• Frederic Warringer as Samuel Otis (Chapter V)
• Tom Aldredge as James McHenry (Chapters V–VI)
• Reid Shelton as Timothy Pickering (Chapter VI)
• David O'Brien as Oliver Wolcott (Chapter VI)
• Josef Sommer as Charles Lee (Chapter VI)
• John Braden as John Marshall (Chapter VI)
• John McQuade as General Pinckney (Chapter VI)
• Tom McDermott as Eldridge Gerry (Chapter VI)
• Robert Prosky as Benjamin Stoddert (Chapter VI)
• Stephen Strimpell as Ames (Chapter VI)
• George Hearn as Henry Clay (Chapters VII–X)

• Michael Wager as Albert Gallatin (Chapter VII)
• Robert Moberly as Senator Bayard (Chapter VII)

• Wesley Addy as General Andrew Jackson (Chapters VIII–IX)
• Robert Phalen as John C. Calhoun (Chapter VIII–IX)
• Roger Alan Brown as Pinckney (Chapter X)
• Stephen D. Newman as Abraham Lincoln (Chapter XI)
• Alexander Clark as William Seward (Chapter XI)

British dignitaries, politicians, others

• John Tillinger as King George III (Chapters I–IV)
• James Noble as Jonathan Sewall (Chapter I)
• Patrick Horgan as Lord Howe (Chapter III)
• Ed Zang as English Tailor (Chapter IV)
• Don McHenry as Sir Clement Cotterell Dormer (Chapter IV)
• Jack Gwillim as Lord Carmarthen (Chapter IV)
• Robert Gerringer as Burrill (Chapter IV)
• Thomas Barbour as Bishop of St. Asaph (Chapter IV)
• William Roerick as Lord Gambier (Chapter VII)
• George Pentecost as Henry Goulburn (Chapter VII)
• Emery Battis as Lord John Russell (Chapter XI)

Foreign dignitaries, politicians, others

• M'el Dowd as Madame Brillon (Chapter III)
• Guy Sorel as Comte de Vergennes (Chapter III)
• Taina Elg as Comtesse de Vergennes (Chapter III)
• C. K. Alexander as The Dutch Banker (Chapter III)
• Cavada Humphrey as Princess of Orange (Chapter III)
• Lance Davis as Louis XVI (Chapter III)
• Louis Turenne as M. Hauteval (Chapter VI)
• Christopher Lloyd as Tsar Alexandre I (Chapter VII)

• Paul Sparer as Chancellor Rumyantsev (Chapter VII)
• Michael Kane as General Caulaincourt (Chapter VII)
• Valerie French as Countess Rostov (Chapter VII)

• Osvaldo Riofrancos as Don Luis de Onis (Chapter VIII)
• Jean-Pierre Stewart as Alexis de Tocqueville (Chapter X)
• Norman Bush as Cinque (Chapter X)

Other Americans

• John Houseman as Justice Gridley (Chapter I)
• Reno Roop as Josiah Quincy (cousin of John Adams) (Chapter II)
• Alfred Hinckley as Capt. Hay (Chapter IV)
• Robin Pearson Rose as Polly Jefferson (Chapter V)
• Donald C. Moore as Sparhawk (Chapter IV)
• Edwin Owens as Russell Jarvis (Chapter IX)
• Jerome Dempsey as Lewis Tappan (Chapter X)
• Tom Hulce as Student (Chapter X)
• Bernie McInerney as Roger Sherman Baldwin (Chapter X)
• Ronald Dawson as Chief Justice Taney (Chapter X)
• John Ramsey as Henry James (Chapter XII)
• Paul Hecht as Jay Gould (Chapter XIII)
• James Broderick as W. H. Holcomb (Chapter XIII)

• Barton Heyman as Capt. Beckford (Chapter VII)
• John Horn as Lt. Mountgarret (Chapter VII)
• Susan Bjurman