Movie
Ragtime (1981)
The passion, the violence, the birth of America's Gilded Age.
Drama · History
Story
A young black pianist becomes embroiled in the lives of an upper-class white family set among the racial tensions, infidelity, violence, and other nostalgic events in early 1900s New York City.
Director: Miloš Forman Starring: James Cagney, Brad Dourif, Moses Gunn, Elizabeth McGovern
Ragtime Cast
- James Cagney as New York Police Commissioner Rhinelander Waldo
- Brad Dourif as Younger Brother
- Moses Gunn as Booker T. Washington
- Elizabeth McGovern as Evelyn Nesbit
- Kenneth McMillan as Willie Conklin
- Pat O'Brien as Delmas
- Donald O'Connor as Evelyn's Dance Instructor
- James Olson as Father
- Mandy Patinkin as Tateh
- Howard Rollins as Coalhouse Walker Jr.
- Mary Steenburgen as Mother
- Debbie Allen as Sarah