Tom Hanks

as Paul Edgecomb

David Morse

as Brutus 'Brutal' Howell

Bonnie Hunt

as Jan Edgecomb

Michael Clarke Duncan

as John Coffey

James Cromwell

as Warden Hal Moores

Michael Jeter

as Eduard Delacroix

Graham Greene

as Arlen Bitterbuck

Doug Hutchison

as Percy Wetmore