* Bernardo, leader of a New York street gang whose sister falls for a former member of a rival gang:
* Father Fitzgibbon, a crusty Irish pastor to a declining Catholic parish at odds with the new priest:
* Glen Whitehouse, an abusive father who sees the fruits of his hatred inherited by his son:
* 'Curly', a crusty cowboy who is saddled with escorting a bunch of tenderfoots on a vacation packaged cattle drive:
* Jim Malone, a beat cop enlisted in the war against organized crime in Prohibition-era Chicago:
* Homer Parrish, a disabled WWII veteran, trying to get his life back together:
* 'Kris Kringle', the pseudonym of a kindly elderly man who is thoroughly convinced he is Santa Claus:
* A classic movie star of Hollywood's Golden Age brought down by age and drug dependancy, befriended by a quirky director:
* Capt. Alfred Dreyfus, a French officer arrested for espionage and treason:
* Addison De Witt, a caustic theatre critic who assists the career of an understudy, to the detriment of the fading actress she replaced:
* Angelo Maggio, a tough talking soldier stationed at Pearl Harbor at the dawn of hostilities with Japan:
* Al Lewis, half of a famous Vaudeville comedy team who hates his partner:
* Willie Gingrich, an ambulance chasing lawyer who convinces his brother-in-law to fake an injury for a lawsuit:
* Art Selwyn, a resident of a Florida retirement home, who discovers an extra-terrestrial Fountain of Youth:
* The unnamed Master of Ceremonies of the Kit Kat Club, a seedy lounge in Depression Era Berlin:
* Hobson, an acerbic butler who looks after the drunken heir to a fortune, who can't help but feel a little fatherly for his ward:
* Rod Tidwell, a selfsure pro football player who trusts his financial future to a struggling agent:
* Verbal Kint, a small-time hood with a limp, who tries to help a detective track down a criminal mastermind:
* Dr. Charles Kingsfield, the much-feared Professor of Law at Harvard University:
* Sam Gerard, a U.S. marshall on the trail of an accused killer: