Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Bob Balaban as David Laughlin Warren J. Kemmerling as Wild Bill Luis Contreras as Federale Melinda Dillon as Jillian Guiler Josef Sommer as Larry Butler J. Allen Hynek as Man Smoking Pipe at Landing Site (uncredited) Richard Dreyfuss as Roy Neary F.J. O'Neil as ARP Project Member George DiCenzo as Major Benchley James Keane as Radio Telescope Team Teri Garr as Ronnie Neary Lance Henriksen as Robert Gene Dynarski as Ike Norman Bartold as Norman Bartold Bill Thurman as Air Traffic Carl Weathers as Military Policeman Basil Hoffman as Longly (uncredited) François Truffaut as Claude Lacombe Roberts Blossom as Farmer Matthew Robbins as Returnee #3 Flt. 19 J. Patrick McNamara as Project Leader Alexander Lockwood as Implantee Cary Guffey as Barry Guiler

J. Allen Hynek Production Consultant Vilmos Zsigmond Director of Photography Douglas Trumbull Visual Effects Director Craig R. Baxley Stunt Driver Juliet Taylor Casting Jim Bloom Second Assistant Director Shari Rhodes Casting Jeannie Epper Stunts Dan Perri Title Designer Buddy Joe Hooker Stunt Coordinator Jerry Brutsche Stunt Driver Michael Kahn Editor Joe Alves Production Design Steven Spielberg Director, Writer John Williams Original Music Composer Steven Poster Second Unit Director of Photography Carlo Rambaldi Visual Effects John A. Alonzo Additional Director of Photography Henry Kingi Stunt Driver László Kovács Additional Director of Photography