Orson Welles	...	(Director)
Herman J. Mankiewicz, Orson Welles	...	(Writer)
Joseph Cotten	...	Jedediah Leland
Dorothy Comingore	...	Susan Alexander Kane
Agnes Moorehead	...	Mary Kane
Ruth Warrick	...	Emily Monroe Norton Kane
Ray Collins	...	James W. Gettys
Erskine Sanford	...	Herbert Carter
Everett Sloane	...	Mr. Bernstein
William Alland	...	Jerry Thompson
Paul Stewart	...	Raymond
George Coulouris	...	Walter Parks Thatcher
Fortunio Bonanova	...	Matiste
Gus Schilling	...	The Headwaiter
Philip Van Zandt	...	Mr. Rawlston
Georgia Backus	...	Miss Anderson
Harry Shannon	...	Kane's Father
Orson Welles	...	Kane
Bernard Herrmann	...	Composer
Sonny Bupp	...	Kane III
Buddy Swan	...	Kane - Age Eight
Loretta Agar	...	Dancing Girl
Thomas A. Curran	...	Teddy Roosevelt
Richard Baer	...	Hillman
Carl Ekberg	...	Adolf Hitler
Charles Bennett	...	Entertainer
Carl Faulkner	...	Hermann Goring
Joan Blair	...	Georgia
Charles Meakin	...	Civic Leader
Edmund Cobb	...	Inquirer Reporter
E.G. Miller	...	Neville Chamberlain
Eddie Coke	...	Reporter
Edward Peil Jr.	...	Civic Leader
Nat 'King' Cole	...	Pianist in 'El Rancho'
George Schaefer	...	Executive Producer
Gino Corrado	...	Gino
Herbert Corthell	...	City Editor
Gregg Toland	...	Director of Photography
Robert Wise	...	Editor
Van Nest Polglase	...	Art Direction
Louise Currie	...	Reporter at Xanadu
Edward Stevenson	...	Costume Design
Jack Curtis	...	Boss printer
Vernon L. Walker	...	Special Effects
Tim Davis	...	Copy Boy
Donna Dax	...	House maid
Marie Day	...	Insert bit
Petra R. de Silva	...	Newswoman
John Dilson	...	Ward Heeler
Robert Dudley	...	Photographer
Suzanne Dulier	...	French maid
Al Eben	...	Solly
Edith Evanson	...	Leland's Nurse
Jean Forward	...	Opera Singer
Olin Francis	...	Expressman
Louise Franklin	...	Maid
Al Frazier	...	Gorilla man
Captain Garcia	...	General
Peter Gowland	...	Guest
Lew Harvey	...	Newspaper Man
Edward L. Hemmer	...	Bit Part
Mitchell Ingraham	...	Politician
Walter James	...	Ward Heeler
Arthur Kay	...	Orchestra leader
Milton Kibbee	...	Reporter at Wedding
Alan Ladd	...	Reporter smoking pipe at end
Carmen Laroux	...	Bit Part
Ellen Lowe	...	Miss Townsend
Buck Mack	...	Man
James T. Mack	...	Prompter
Herman J. Mankiewicz	...	Newspaperman
Joe Manz	...	Jennings
Major McBride	...	Shadowgraph man
Irving Mitchell	...	Dr. Corey
Philip Morris	...	Politician
Jack Morton	...	Butler
Louis Natheaux	...	Reporter
Frances E. Neal	...	Ethel
George Noisom	...	Copy Boy
Joseph North	...	Male secretary
William H. O'Brien	...	Male secretary
Arthur O'Connell	...	Reporter
Jack Raymond	...	Stagehand
Guy Repp	...	Reporter
Myrtle Rishell	...	Big governess
Benny Rubin	...	Smather
Shimen Ruskin	...	Hireling
Walter Sande	...	Reporter at Xanadu
Francis Sayles	...	Politician
George Sherwood	...	Hireling
Bruce Sidney	...	Newsman
Landers Stevens	...	Investigator
Karl Thomas	...	Jetsam
Kathryn Trosper	...	Reporter at Xanadu
Glen Turnbull	...	Flotsam
Gohr Van Vleck	...	Stagehand
Harry J. Vejar	...	Portugese laborer
Patrick Whitney	...	Reporter
Tudor Williams	...	Chorus Master
Richard Wilson	...	Reporter
Arthur Yeoman	...	Speaker
Thomas Anderson	...	Himself
Richard Ben Cramer	...	Narrator
Peter Bogdanovich	...	Himself
Jimmy Breslin	...	Himself
Marion Davies	...	Herself
Leonard De Bur	...	Himself
Douglas Fairbanks Jr.	...	Himself
Richard France	...	Himself
William Randolph Hearst	...	Himself
William Herz	...	Himself
Sam Leve	...	Himself
Norman Lloyd	...	Himself
Nancy Loe	...	Herself
Frank Mankiewicz	...	Himself
David Nasaw	...	Himself
Lon Etta Santucci	...	Himself
John Tebbel	...	Himself
Vern Whaley	...	Himself
Gloria Widelock	...	Herself
Jack Carter	...	Himself, Macbeth
Maurice Ellis	...	Himself, Macduff

Summary: A group of reporters are trying to decipher the last word ever spoken by Charles Foster Kane, the millionaire newspaper tycoon: "Rosebud." The film begins with a news reel detailing Kane's life for the masses, and then from there, we are shown flashbacks from Kane's life. As the reporters investigate further, the viewers see a display of a fascinating man's rise to fame, and how he eventually fell off the top of the world.