This is the year 2022. Overcrowding, pollution, and resource depletion have reduced society’s leaders to finding food for the teeming masses. The answer is Soylent Green.
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Charlton Heston as Detective Robert Thorn |
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Leigh Taylor-Young as Shirl |
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Chuck Connors as Tab Fielding |
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Joseph Cotten as William R. Simonson |
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Brock Peters as Chief Hatcher |
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Paula Kelly as Martha Phillips |
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Edward G. Robinson as Sol Roth |
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Stephen Young as Gilbert |
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Mike Henry as Kulozik |
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Lincoln Kilpatrick as The Priest |
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Roy Jenson as Donovan |
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Leonard Stone as Charles |
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Whit Bissell as Gov. Santini |
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Celia Lovsky as The Exchange Leader |
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Dick Van Patten as Usher #1 |
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Morgan Farley as Book #1 |
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John Barclay as Book #2 |
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Belle Mitchell as Book #3 |
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Cyril Delevanti as Book #4 |
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Forest Wood as Attendant |
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Faith Quabius as Attendant |
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Jane Dulo as Mrs. Santini |
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John Dennis as Wagner |
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Jan Bradley as Bandana Woman |
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Carlos Romero as New Tenant |
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Pat Houtchens as Fat Guard |
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Joyce Williams as The Furniture Girls |
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Erica Hagen as The Furniture Girls |
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Beverly Gill as The Furniture Girls |
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Suesie Eejima as The Furniture Girls |
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Cheri Howell as The Furniture Girls |
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Kathy Silva as The Furniture Girls |
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Jennifer King as The Furniture Girls |
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Marion Charles as The Furniture Girls |
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Molly Dodd as Soylent Yellow Seller (uncredited) |
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Gwen Farrell as Woman in Confessional Line (uncredited) |
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Bern Hoffman as Plastics Seller (uncredited) |
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Robert Ito as Shoe Seller (uncredited) |
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Nora Marlowe as Soylent Crumbs Seller (uncredited) |
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Ida Mae McKenzie as Woman Calling for Revolution (uncredited) |
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Richard Sterne as TV Announcer (uncredited) |
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Jeff Winkless as Suicide Parlor Attendant (uncredited) |
Camera | Richard H. Kline | Director of Photography |
Directing | Richard Fleischer | Director |
Production | Jack Baur | Casting |
Production | Lloyd Anderson | Unit Production Manager |
Art | Edward C. Carfagno | Art Direction |
Editing | Samuel E. Beetley | Editor |
Art | Robert R. Benton | Set Decoration |
Costume & Make-Up | Bud Westmore | Makeup Artist |
Costume & Make-Up | Bud Westmore | Makeup Designer |
Sound | Harry W. Tetrick | Sound |
Production | Walter Seltzer | Producer |
Costume & Make-Up | Betsy Cox | Costumer |
Directing | Daniel McCauley | Assistant Director |
Sound | Fred Myrow | Music |
Writing | Stanley R. Greenberg | Screenplay |
Production | Russell Thacher | Producer |
Crew | Jeannie Epper | Stunts |
Crew | Gary Epper | Stunts |
Crew | Joe Canutt | Stunt Coordinator |
Crew | Joe Canutt | Stunt Double |
Crew | Frank Orsatti | Stunts |
Writing | Harry Harrison | Novel |
Costume & Make-Up | Sherry Wilson | Hairstylist |
Costume & Make-Up | Pat Barto | Costume Design |
Sound | Charles M. Wilborn | Sound |
Crew | Stephanie Epper | Stunts |
Art | Terry Ballard | Property Master |
Costume & Make-Up | Norman A. Burza | Costumer |
Directing | Wolfgang E. Marum | Second Assistant Director |