Sally Field

Norma Rae

Beau Bridges

Sonny

Ron Leibman

Reuben

Pat Hingle

Vernon

Barbara Baxley

Leona

Gail Strickland

Bonnie Mae

Morgan Paull

Wayne Billings

Robert Broyles

Sam Bolen

John Calvin

Ellis Harper

Booth Colman

Dr. Watson

Lee de Broux

Lujan

James Luisi

George Benson

Vernon Weddle

Reverend Hubbard

Gilbert Green

Al Landon

Bob Minor

Lucius White

Grace Zabriskie

Linette Odum

Stuart Culpepper

Ray Towner

Mary Munday

Mrs. Johnson

Jack Stryker

J.J. Davis

Gregory Walcott

Lamar Miller

Noble Willingham

Leroy Mason

Lonny Chapman

Gardner

Bert Freed

Sam Dakin

Bob Hannah

Jed Buffum

Edith Ivey

Louise Pickens

Scott Lawton

Craig

Frank McRae

James Brown

Gerry Okuneff

Pinkerton Man

Gina Kaye Pounders

Millie

Henry Slate

Policeman

Melissa Ann Wait

Alice

Joe Dorsey

Woodrow Thompson

Sherry Velvet Foster

Velma Stackhouse

Weona T. Brown

Hot Dog Vendor

Carolyn Danforth

Mavis Pruitt

James W. Harris

Mill Worker

Charlie Briggs

Warren Latting

Billie Joyce Buck

Agnes Roy

Fred Covington

Alston Purvis

J. Don Ferguson

Peter Gallat

Sandra Dorsey

Jail Matron

Harold E. Finch

Agent

Clayton Landey

Teddy Bob Keeler

Bill Pannell

Billy Stettin

George R. Robertson

Farmer

Thomas D. Samford III

Justice of the Peace

Roy Tatum

Woodrow Bowser

Paul Ellen

TV Reporter (uncredited)

Jerry Michael Ray

TV Reporter (uncredited)

Martin Ritt

Factory Worker (uncredited)