Escape from New York

Lee Van Cleef as Police Commissioner Bob Hauk Isaac Hayes as The Duke of New York Tom Atkins as Rehme George Buck Flower as Drunk Nancy Stephens as Stewardess Steven Ford as Secret Service #2 Nick Castle as Pianist Ox Baker as Slag Ernest Borgnine as Cabbie Season Hubley as Girl in Chock Full O'Nuts Adrienne Barbeau as Maggie John Carpenter as Secret Service #2 / Helicopter Pilot / Violin Player Joe Unger as Taylor Garrett Bergfeld as Gypsy #2 Harry Dean Stanton as Harold 'Brain' Helman John Cothran as Gypsy #1 Jamie Lee Curtis as Narrator / Prison Recording Voice (uncredited) Debra Hill as Computer (voice) Wally Taylor as Controller Rodger Bumpass as Dancer John Diehl as Punk Kurt Russell as Snake Plissken Donald Pleasence as President of the United States Charles Cyphers as Secretary of State Frank Doubleday as Romero

James Winburn Stunts Loren Janes Stunts Tony Randel Special Effects Coordinator Fred Lerner Stunts Bill Hart Stunts Dean Cundey Director of Photography Dick Warlock Stunts, Stunt Coordinator Eddie Hice Stunts Joe Alves Production Design Ted White Stunts James Cameron Matte Painter, Visual Effects Art Director Jack Verbois Stunts Debra Hill Producer Mark Mangini Dialogue Editor Sandra Lee Gimpel Stunts Larry Franco Producer, First Assistant Director Alan Howarth Original Music Composer, Sound Effects David Cronenberg Thanks Harvey Parry Stunts George P. Wilbur Stunts Bob Minor Stunts Todd C. Ramsay Editor Nick Castle Screenplay Tony Brubaker Stunts John Carpenter Director, Screenplay, Original Music Composer