Escape from New York

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

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