A Woman Called Moses stars Cicely Tyson as real-life escaped slave Harriet Tubman. At the risk of recapture, Tubman helped organize the Underground Railroad, which enabled hundreds of enslaved African Americans to make their way to the freedom of the North. Adding to the tension are Harriet's frequent epileptic fainting spells. Orson Welles narrates this adaptation of Marcy Heidish's novel.

Cicely TysonHarriet Ross Tubman

Will GeerThomas Garrett

Robert HooksWilliam Still

Orson WellesNarrator (voice)

Jason BernardDaddy Ben Ross

John GetzStewart

James B. SikkingMcCracken

Clifford DavidDoc Thompson

Mae MercerAunt Juba

Charles WeldonShadrack Davis

Dick Anthony WilliamsJohn Tubman

Jean FosterYoung Harriet Tubman

Judyann ElderBernette Wilson

Hari RhodesTavwell Robinson

Malik CarterBlack Man

Marilyn ColemanMolly

Todd DavisJim

Cecilia HartSusan Broadas

Alice HirsonMiss Rodham

Hector MaisonetteJosiah 'Joe' Bailey

John PerakCharley

Hank RolikeAmos

Patricia SmithMrs. Leah Jenkins

Ann WeldonMama Ritt Ross

Howard WittEdward Broadas

Jimmy BridgesYoung Shadrack Davis

Eugene DanielsPatroller #1

Robert HarperWagon Driver

Melody HarrisTilly

Michael HaywardColeman's Man #1

Peter HellmanKarl Muller

Don HoodTom Hughett

B.J. HooperChairman

James JeterBowers

Kedren JonesElvina

Roy JonesRobert Ross

Jerry LeggioColeman's Man #3

Minnie Summers LindseyRebecca

Dennis McCarthyBoatman

James O'ConnellConductor

F. William ParkerBuyer

Kenneth RogersEdward Broad

Ray SpruellPlanter

James SteelePatroller #2

Emmanuel ThomasWillie

Elliot WashingtonBenjie Ross

Kenneth WhiteHeckler

Frances E. WilliamsOld Woman in Church

Roberta Jean WilliamsAddie Robinson

Sylvia Kuumba WilliamsMammy Portia

Jerii WoodsMartha Robinson

James WainwrightAndrew Coleman