Drama
A look at the life of Cecil Gaines, who served eight presidents as the White House's head butler from 1952 to 1986, and had a unique front-row seat as political and racial history was made.
Directed by
Lee Daniels
Written by
Danny Strong
Forest Whitaker
Cecil Gaines
James Marsden
John F. Kennedy
Minka Kelly
Jackie Kennedy
Robin Williams
Dwight Eisenhower
Liev Schreiber
Lyndon B. Johnson
Alan Rickman
Ronald Reagan
John Cusack
Richard Nixon
Terrence Howard
Howard
Colman Domingo
Freddie Fallows
Yaya DaCosta
Carol Hammie
Jane Fonda
Nancy Reagan
Cuba Gooding Jr.
Carter Wilson
Vanessa Redgrave
Annabeth Westfall
Jesse Williams
Rev. James Lawson
Alex Pettyfer
Thomas Westfall
Mariah Carey
Hattie Pearl
Lenny Kravitz
James Holloway
David Oyelowo
Louis Gaines
Oprah Winfrey
Gloria Gaines
Danny Strong
Freedom Bus Journalist
David Banner
Earl Gaines
Aml Ameen
Cecil Gaines (15)
Xosha Roquemore
Foxy (uncredited)
Nelsan Ellis
Martin Luther King Jr.
Joe Chrest
White Usher
Michael Rainey Jr.
Cecil Gaines (8)
James DuMont
Sherman Adams
Adriane Lenox
Gina
Clarence Williams III
Maynard
Danny Cosmo
Elijah Kelley
Charlie Gaines (15-18)
Dana Gourrier
Helen Holloway
Olivia Washington
Olivia
Mo McRae
Eldridge Huggins
Nealla Gordon
Senator Kassebaum
Pernell Walker
Lorraine
Colin Walker
John Ehrlichman
Stephen Rider
Admiral Rochon
Alex Manette
Bob Haldeman
Jim Gleason
R.D. Warner
Robert Aberdeen
Herbert Brownell
Tarra Riggs
Sophie Wilson (uncredited)
Isaac White
Charlie Gaines (10)
LaJessie Smith
Abraham
John P. Fertitta
Mr. Jenkins
Margaret M. Owens
Woolworth Diner Patron #1
Eric Ducote
Woolworth Diner Patron #2
Chloe Barach
Caroline Kennedy
Clara Hopkins Daniels
Freedom Bus Rider
Shirley Pugh
Malcolm X Goer
Bill Newman
Pastor
Rusty Robertson
Senator Robertson
Cariella Smith

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