Ragtime

The passion, the violence, the birth of America's Gilded Age.

A young black pianist becomes embroiled in the lives of an upper-class white family set among the racial tensions, infidelity, violence, and other nostalgic events in early 1900s New York City.

Elizabeth McGovern

Evelyn Nesbit

Howard Rollins

Coalhouse Walker Jr.

Moses Gunn

Booker T. Washington

Brad Dourif

Younger Brother

James Cagney

New York Police Commissioner Rhinelander Waldo

Kenneth McMillan

Willie Conklin

Pat O’Brien

Delmas, Thaw's Lawyer

James Olson

Father

Donald O'Connor

Evelyn's Dance Instructor

Mandy Patinkin

Tateh

Mary Steenburgen

Mother

Debbie Allen

Sarah

Jeffrey DeMunn

Harry Houdini

Robert Joy

Henry Thaw

Norman Mailer

Stanford White

John Ratzenberger

Policeman

Jack Nicholson

Pirate (uncredited)

Jeff Daniels

P.C. O'Donnell