The Iron Giant - Cast

Cast

  • Eli Marienthal as Hogarth Hughes, an energetic, young, curious boy with an active imagination.
  • Jennifer Aniston as Annie Hughes, a widow and Hogarth's single mother.
  • Harry Connick, Jr. as Dean McCoppin, a beatnik artist and junkyard owner who "sees art where others see junk".
  • Vin Diesel as The Iron Giant, fifty-foot, metal-eating robot. The Giant reacts defensively if it recognizes anything as a weapon, immediately attempting to destroy it, but can stop himself. The specific creator of the giant is never revealed. In a deleted scene, he has a brief vision of robots similar to him destroying a different planet. Peter Cullen was considered to do the voice.
  • Christopher McDonald as Kent Mansley, an arrogant, ambitious and paranoid N.S.A. agent sent to investigate the Iron Giant.
  • John Mahoney as General Rogard, the military leader in Washington, D.C. who strongly dislikes Mansley.
  • M. Emmet Walsh as Earl Stutz, a sailor and the first man to see the robot.
  • James Gammon as Marv Loach, a foreman who follows the robot's trail after it destroys the power station.
  • Cloris Leachman as Mrs. Tensedge, Hogarth's no-nonsense schoolteacher.

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