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
Minka Kelly
Jackie Kennedy
Robin Williams
Dwight Eisenhower
James Marsden
John F. Kennedy
Forest Whitaker
Cecil Gaines
Liev Schreiber
Lyndon B. Johnson
Colman Domingo
Freddie Fallows
John Cusack
Richard Nixon
Alan Rickman
Ronald Reagan
Mariah Carey
Hattie Pearl
Joe Chrest
White Usher
Jesse Williams
Rev. James Lawson
Terrence Howard
Howard
Danny Cosmo
Alex Pettyfer
Thomas Westfall
Yaya DaCosta
Carol Hammie
Vanessa Redgrave
Annabeth Westfall
Cuba Gooding Jr.
Carter Wilson
Olivia Washington
Olivia
Alex Manette
Bob Haldeman
Jane Fonda
Nancy Reagan
Danny Strong
Freedom Bus Journalist
Robert Aberdeen
Herbert Brownell
Mo McRae
Eldridge Huggins
Dana Gourrier
Helen Holloway
Xosha Roquemore
Foxy (uncredited)
Nelsan Ellis
Martin Luther King Jr.
Lenny Kravitz
James Holloway
Michael Rainey Jr.
Cecil Gaines (8)
Elijah Kelley
Charlie Gaines (15-18)
Stephen Rider
Admiral Rochon
James DuMont
Sherman Adams
Aml Ameen
Cecil Gaines (15)
David Oyelowo
Louis Gaines
Oprah Winfrey
Gloria Gaines
David Banner
Earl Gaines
Adriane Lenox
Gina
Pernell Walker
Lorraine
Clarence Williams III
Maynard
Jim Gleason
R.D. Warner
Nealla Gordon
Senator Kassebaum
Colin Walker
John Ehrlichman
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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