Close Encounters of the Third Kind

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

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