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1999 | DIRECTED BY JOE JOHNSTON

October Sky

Directed by

Producers

Name
Role
 
Charles Gordon
Producer
 
Larry Franco
Producer
 
Marc Sternberg
Executive Producer
 
Peter Cramer
Executive Producer

Written by

Writer
Role
 
Homer H. Hickam Jr.
Book
 
Lewis Colick
Screenplay

Music by

Artist
Role
 
Mark Isham
Music

Starring

Actors
Character
Homer Hickam
 
Chris Cooper
John Hickam
Miss Riley
 
Chris Owen
Quentin
 
William Lee Scott
Roy Lee
 
Chad Lindberg
O'Dell
 
Natalie Canerday
Elsie Hickam
 
Scott Thomas
Jim Hickam
 
Randy Stripling
Leon Bolden
 
Chris Ellis
Principal Turner
 
Elya Baskin
Ike Bykovsky
 
Courtney Cole-Fendley
Dorothy Platt
 
David Dwyer
Jake Mosby
 
Terry Loughlin
Mr. Dantzler
 
Kaili Hollister
Valentine Carmina
 
David Copeland
Coach Gainer
 
Don Henderson Baker
Jensen
 
Tom Kagy
Lenny
 
Donald Thorne
Trooper One
 
Justin Whitsett
Kid
 
Larry Rue
Neighbor
 
Neva Howell
Neighbor
 
Terry Nienhuis
Neighbor
 
Brady Coleman
Anderson
 
Rick Forrester
Roper
 
Terrence Gibney
Basil Thorpe
 
Douglas Swander
Corvette Guy
 
Keeli Hale Kimbro
Corvette Girl
 
Mark Jeffrey Miller
Vernon
 
Blaque Fowler
Reverend
 
Don Tilley
Rescue Worker
 
Rockford Davis
Chemistry Teacher
 
John Bennes
Doctor
 
Jonathan Fawbush
Barney
 
Larry Black
Fred Smith
 
Frank Schuler
Moonshiner
 
Tommy Smeltzer
Man at Mine
 
Charles Lawlor
Miner
 
Tom Turbiville
Miner
 
Ida Ginn
Quentin's Mom
 
Richard Lumpkin
Judge at Welch
 
Mark W. Johnson
Union Official
 
Don Taylor
Union Official
 
Don G. Campbell
Mr. Morris
 
Liz Byler
Ivy League Girl
 
Bradford Ryan Lund
Ivy League Boy
 
Frank Hoyt Taylor
Judge at Indy
 
Dave Hager
Head Judge
 
Ray Elder
Tom Webster
 
Andy Stahl
Jack Palmer
 
Joe Digaetano
Wernher von Braun
 
Tom Taylor
Miner in Elevator
 
David Ducey
Man in Crowd
 
Jenny Patterson
Nurse
 
O. Winston Link
Locomotive Engineer
 
Wren Barnes
Science Fair Student
 
Ryder Davis
Man in Crowd
 
Brian Edward Keith
Coal Miner
 
Shawn Lindsay
Miner