"In a world ravaged by crime, the entire island of Manhattan has been converted into a walled prison where brutal prisoners roam free. After the US president crash-lands inside, war hero Snake Plissken has 24 hours to bring him back."
Kurt Russell
as Snake Plissken
Lee Van Cleef
as Police Commissioner Bob Hauk
Ernest Borgnine
as Cabbie
Donald Pleasence
as President of the United States
Isaac Hayes
as The Duke of New York
Season Hubley
as Girl in Chock Full O'Nuts
Harry Dean Stanton
as Harold 'Brain' Helman
Adrienne Barbeau
as Maggie
Tom Atkins
as Rehme
Charles Cyphers
as Secretary of State
Frank Doubleday
as Romero
John Strobel
as Cronenberg
George Buck Flower
as Drunk
John Cothran
as Gypsy #1
Nancy Stephens
as Stewardess
Steven Ford
as Secret Service #2
John Carpenter
as Secret Service #2 / Helicopter Pilot / Violin Player
Jamie Lee Curtis
as Narrator / Prison Recording Voice (uncredited)
Nick Castle
as Pianist
Debra Hill
as Computer (voice)
Ox Baker
as Slag
Joe Unger
as Taylor
Garrett Bergfeld
as Gypsy #2
Wally Taylor
as Controller
Rodger Bumpass
as Dancer
John Diehl
as Punk
Ronald E. House
Stephen Loomis
Costume Design
Alan Howarth
Original Music Composer
Dean Cundey
Director of Photography
Producer
Screenplay
Todd C. Ramsay
Editor
Joe Alves
Production Design
Cloudia Rebar
Set Decoration
Larry Franco
Director
Serge Genitempo
Standby Painter
Don Sutton
Leadman
Jake Eberts
Executive Producer
Marvin Salsberg
Construction Foreman
Carl Fischer
Boom Operator
Barry Bernardi
Associate Producer
Ed Zingel
Painter
Arthur Gelb
Graphic Designer
Thomas Causey
Sound Mixer
Bill Varney
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Jim Lucas
Second Unit Director of Photography
Frankie Bergman
Hairstylist
Alan Levine
Production Manager
Warren Hamilton Jr.
Sound Editor
David Lewis Yewdall
Ken Chase
Makeup Supervisor
Benjamin Douglas
Makeup Artist
Eugene Booth
Assistant Property Master
Joseph C. Fama
Propmaker
Jeffrey Chernov
Second Assistant Director
Steve Maslow
Pat Patterson
Special Effects
Roy Arbogast
Special Effects Supervisor
First Assistant Director
Steve Rice
Dialogue Editor
Mark Mangini
Eddie Surkin
Gary Zink
Brian Bevis
Mike May
Property Master
Sol Aquino
Carpenter
Gregg Landaker
David Ritscher
Assistant Sound Editor
Lee B. Drygas
Swing
Chris Horner
Assistant Art Director
Michael W. Moore
Joseph F. Brennan
Nicholas James
Foley Editor
Kevin Pike
Mike Johnson
Stunts
David Cronenberg
Thanks
Buff Brady
Fred Lerner
Glory Fioramonti
Roydon Clark
Kent Hays
Mags Kavanaugh
Jack Tyree
Mike H. McGaughy
William T. Lane
Ted White
George P. Wilbur
Bill Hart
Harvey Parry
Jack Verbois
George Sawaya
John Moio
Jesse Wayne
Stunt Double
Tony Randel
Special Effects Coordinator
James Winburn
Dick Warlock
Sound Effects
James Cameron
Matte Painter
John C. Wash
Visual Effects
Jena Holman
Robert Skotak
Bob Minor
Eddie Hice
Loren Janes
Andrew Overholtzer
Tony Brubaker
Sandra Lee Gimpel
Visual Effects Art Director
Stunt Coordinator