Film record

The Right Stuff

1983Feature film184 minVerification: Verified

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Production countries
United States
Languages
English
Genres
adventure film · drama film · historical film

Credits

Direction

Philip Kaufman — Directing

Cast

Fred Ward — Acting (Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom)
Dennis Quaid — Acting (Gordon "Gordo" Cooper)
Ed Harris — Acting (John Glenn)
Scott Glenn — Acting (Alan Shepard)
Sam Shepard — Acting (Chuck Yeager)
Barbara Hershey — Acting (Glennis Yeager)
Lance Henriksen — Acting (Walter "Wally" Schirra)
Veronica Cartwright — Acting (Betty Grissom)
Jane Dornacker — Acting (Nurse Murch)
Harry Shearer — Acting (NASA recruiter)
Jeff Goldblum — Acting (NASA recruiter)
Kim Stanley — Acting (Pancho Barnes)
Pamela Reed — Acting (Trudy Cooper)
Mary Jo Deschanel — Acting (Annie Glenn)
Donald Moffat — Acting (U.S. Senator and Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson)
Scott Wilson — Acting (Scott Crossfield)
David Clennon — Acting (a liaison man)
Kathy Baker — Acting (Louise Shepard)
John P. Ryan — Acting (the Head of the Manned Space Program)
William Russ — Acting (Slick Goodlin)
Levon Helm — Acting (Jack Ridley)
Anastas Mikoyan — Acting (himself)
Bill Dana — Acting (José Jiménez)
Ed Sullivan — Acting (himself)
Georgy Malenkov — Acting (himself)
John Dehner — Acting (Henry Luce)
John F. Kennedy — Acting (himself)
Kliment Voroshilov — Acting (himself)
Lyndon B. Johnson — Acting (himself)
Nikita Khrushchev — Acting (himself)
Nikolai Bulganin — Acting (himself)
Royal Dano — Acting (a minister)
Scott Paulin — Acting (Donald K. "Deke" Slayton)
Yuri Gagarin — Acting (himself)
David Gulpilil — Acting (aboriginal man)
Christopher Kriesa — Acting
O-Lan Jones — Acting
Jim Haynie — Acting
Edward Anhalt — Acting
Chuck Yeager — Acting (Fred)
Anthony Muñoz — Acting (Gonzales)
Charles Frank — Acting (Scott Carpenter)
Susan Kase — Acting (Rene Carpenter)
Mittie Smith — Acting (Jo Schirra)
Scott Beach — Acting (head NASA scientist)
Eric Sevareid — Acting (himself)
Robert Beer — Acting (President Dwight D. Eisenhower)
Peggy Davis — Acting (Sally Rand)
Royce Grones — Acting (the first X-1 pilot Jack Woolams)
Alan Shepard — Acting (himself)
James E. Webb — Acting (himself)

Writing

Philip Kaufman — Screenwriting
Tom Wolfe — Screenwriting

Production

Irwin Winkler — Production

Music

Bill Conti — Music composition

Cinematography

Caleb Deschanel — Cinematography

Editing

Glenn Farr — Editing
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Releases by territory

United States · Original release
21 Oct 1983Checked 15 Sep 2026
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