Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam：Full Cast & Crew

Directed by

Bill Couturié
(as Bill Couturie)

Writing Credits

Richard Dewhurst
(screenplay) &: Bill Couturié
(screenplay) (as Bill Couturie)

Cast

Tom Berenger
(voice): Ellen Burstyn
Mrs. Stocks: J. Kenneth Campbell
(voice): Richard Chaves
(voice): Josh Cruze
(voice): Willem Dafoe
Elephant Grass: Robert De Niro
Great Sewer: Brian Dennehy
(voice): Kevin Dillon
Jack: Matt Dillon
Mike: Robert Downey Jr.
(voice): Michael J. Fox
Pfc. Raymond Griffiths: Mark Harmon
(voice): John Heard
Johnny Boy: Fred Hirz
(voice): Harvey Keitel
2nd Lt. Donald Jacques: Elizabeth McGovern
Me: Judd Nelson
(voice): Sean Penn
(voice): Randy Quaid
Cpl. Kevin Macaulay: Timothy Patrick Quill
(voice) (as Tim Quill): Eric Roberts
(voice): Ray Robertson
(voice): Howard E. Rollins Jr.
(voice) (as Howard Rollins Jr.): John Savage
(voice): Raphael Sbarge
(voice): Martin Sheen
Alan: Tucker Smallwood
(voice): Roger Steffens
(voice): Jim Tracy
(voice): Kathleen Turner
1st Lt. Lynda Van Devanter: Tico Wells
(voice): Robin Williams
Baby-san: Denis Boileau
RÃ©citant / Narrator (voice): David Brinkley
Self - NBC Newsman: Fred DeBrine
Self - NBC Newsman: Alain Delon
RÃ©citant / Narrator (voice): Brigitte Fossey
RÃ©citante / Narrator (voice): Annie Girardot
RÃ©citante / Narrator (voice): Edgar Givry
RÃ©citant / Narrator (voice): HervÃ© Icovic
RÃ©citant / Narrator (voice): Valérie Kaprisky
RÃ©citante / Narrator (voice): Jean-Pierre Leroux
RÃ©citant / Narrator (voice): Christophe Malavoy
RÃ©citant / Narrator (voice): Laurent Malet
RÃ©citant / Narrator (voice): Frank McGee
Self - NBC Newsman: Edwin Newman
Self - NBC Newsman: Florent Pagny
RÃ©citant / Narrator (voice): Jack Perkins
Self - NBC Newsman: Patrick Poivey
RÃ©citant / Narrator (voice): Howard Tuckner
Self - NBC Newsman: Sander Vanocur
Self - NBC Newsman: Bob Hope
Self: John Lennon
Self: Yoko Ono
Self

Produced by

Thomas Bird
producer: Bill Couturié
producer (as Bill Couturie): Bernard Edelman
associate producer

Music by

Todd Boekelheide
original music composer

Cinematography by

Michael Chin

Editing by

Stephen Stept
: Gary Weimberg
(Co-Editor)

Casting By

Pat Golden
: Barbara Ligell
: John McCabe

Makeup Department

Jim Gillespie
makeup department head

Production Management

B.Z. Petroff
production manager: Kathryn Witte
post-production supervisor

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director

Odette Blanch
assistant director (uncredited)

Sound Department

Haskell V. Anderson III
additional dialogue recordist: Mark Berger
Supervising Re-Recording Mixer: Todd Boekelheide
re-recording mixer: Richard Chaves
additional dialogue recording: Josh Cruze
additional dialogue recording: Will Harvey
re-recording mixer: Howard Mungo
additional dialogue recordist: Douglas Murray
SynclavierÂ® Sound FX: Larry Oatfield
assistant sound editor (as E. Larry Oatfield): Greg Shaw
SynclavierÂ® Sound FX: Robert Shoup
supervising sound editor: Jeffery Stephens
assistant sound editor (as Jeffrey Stephens): Dennie Thorpe
foley artist: Jeff Watts
sound editor: Anna Davis
assistant sound editor (uncredited): Douglas Murray
Sound Designer (uncredited) / Sound Effects Editor (uncredited): Philip Rogers
sound recordist (uncredited)

Camera and Electrical Department

John Armstrong
still photographer: title photographs, Camera 3: Peter Crosman
still photographer: title photographs, Camera 3

Editorial Department

Anne Davis
assistant editor: Doug Jones
negative conformer: Roy Kissin
editorial systems analyst: Devon Miller
assistant editor: Catherine Ryan
assistant editor: Julie Stept
assistant editor (as Jules Stept)

Music Department

Gary Clayton
original music recording: Ben Edmonds
music consultant: Geoffrey Menin
legal counsel: music: Merril Wasserman
music clearance

Additional Crew

Phillip Arterbury
original letter source: Joseph Bersh Jr.
original letter source: George T. Boks
archive source: Super 8 footage: Alan Bourne
original letter source: David Bowman
original letter source: Alan Brudno
original letter source: Jack Calamia
original letter source: Richard Cantale
original letter source: Rodney Chastant
original letter source: Richard Chaves
archive source: Super 8 footage: Cathleen Cordova
original letter source: Rob Devlin
original letter source (as Robert Devlin): John Di Fusco
technical advisor: Bernard Edelman
book editor: for The New York Vietnam Veterans Memorial Commission: Peter Elliott
original letter source: Alexander Douglas Grant
additional stock footage researcher: Great American Stock: Ray Griffiths
original letter source (as Ray Griffiths): James Hebron
original letter source: Doug Jones
archive source: Super 8 footage: Marion 'Sandy' Kempner
original letter source: Richard Kepro
archive source: Super 8 footage: Roy Kissin
editorial systems analyst: John J. Koshel
film librarian: Dennis Lane
original letter source: Richard Loffler
original letter source: Gregory Lusco
original letter source: Kevin Macaulay
original letter source: William Maguire Jr.
original letter source: Kati Meister
film research supervisor: Joseph Morrissey
original letter source: Edward Murphy
original letter source: George Olsen
original letter source: Allen Paul
original letter source: Thomas Jean Pierre Pellaton
original letter source: Robert Ransom Jr.
original letter source: Michael Rush
original letter source: Robert Salerni
original letter source: James Schubert
original letter source: James Simmen
original letter source: William Stocks
original letter source: Richard Strandberg
original letter source: Jack Swender
original letter source: Lynda Van Devanter
original letter source: Ray Wahl
original letter source: Victor David Westphall III
original letter source: George Williams
original letter source: Eleanor Wimbish
original letter source: Phillip Woodall
original letter source: Steve York
archive source: additional stock footage

Thanks

Richard Beggs
The Producers Wish to Thank:: Richard Downing
acknowledgment: reprints of still photographs: Robert Ellison
acknowledgment: archive still photographs provided by, Blackstar Photo Agency: Ron Hosberle
acknowledgment: archive still photographs provided by: Richard Hymns
The Producers Wish to Thank:: Tom Kobayashi
The Producers Wish to Thank: (as Tom Kobiyashi): David Parker
The Producers Wish to Thank:: Dana A. Penland
acknowledgment: archive still photographs provided by: Alan Splet
The Producers Wish to Thank:: Mark Stanoch
thanks: Bill Young
The Producers Wish to Thank: (as Father Bill Young)