Dennis Quaid as Sam Houston
Billy Bob Thornton as Davy Crockett
Jason Patric as James Bowie
Patrick Wilson as William Travis
Emilio Echevarría as Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana
John Wayne as Col. Davy Crockett
Richard Widmark as Jim Bowie
Laurence Harvey as Col. William Travis
Frankie Avalon as Smitty
Patrick Wayne as Capt. James Butler Bonham
Linda Cristal as Flaca
Joan O'Brien as Mrs. Sue Dickinson
Chill Wills as Beekeeper
Joseph Calleia as Juan Seguin
Ken Curtis as Capt. Almeron Dickinson
Veda Ann Borg as Blind Nell Robertson
John Dierkes as Jocko Robertson
Denver Pyle as Thimblerig (the Gambler)

Carter Burwell as Original Music Composer
Dean Semler as Director of Photography
Dimitri Tiomkin as Original Music Composer
Eric L. Beason as Editor
James Edward Grant as Screenplay
John Lee Hancock as Director
John Wayne as Director
Leslie Bohem as Screenplay
Mark Johnson as Producer
Philip Steuer as Executive Producer
Ron Howard as Producer
Stephen Gaghan as Screenplay
Stuart Gilmore as Editor
Todd Hallowell as Executive Producer
William H. Clothier as Director of Photography