Martin Sheen

as Captain Benjamin Willard

Marlon Brando

as Colonel Walter Kurtz

Frederic Forrest

as Jay 'Chef' Hicks

Albert Hall

as Chief Phillips

Laurence Fishburne

as Tyrone 'Clean' Miller

Sam Bottoms

as Lance B. Johnson

Robert Duvall

as Lieutenant Colonel Bill Kilgore

G.D. Spradlin

as General Corman