The Source

Actors
• Steve Allen .... Himself (archive footage)
• David Amram .... Himself
• Amiri Baraka .... Himself
• Paul Bowles .... Himself (archive footage)
• Lenny Bruce .... Himself (archive footage)
• William F. Buckley .... Himself (archive footage)
• Mortimer Burroughs .... Himself (archive footage)
• William S. Burroughs .... Himself (archive footage)
• John Cage .... Himself (archive footage)
• Neal Cassady .... Himself (archive footage)
• Ann Charters .... Herself
• Shirley Clarke .... Herself (archive footage)
• Gregory Corso .... Himself
• Robert Creeley .... Himself
• Walter Cronkite .... Himself (archive footage)
• Richard J. Daley .... Himself (archive footage)
• David Dellinger .... Himself
• Johnny Depp .... Jack Kerouac
• Diane Di Prima .... Herself
• Bob Dylan .... Himself (archive footage)
• Lawrence Ferlinghetti .... Himself (archive footage)
• Jerry Garcia .... Himself (archive footage)
• Dizzy Gillespie .... Himself (archive footage)
• Allen Ginsberg .... Himself (archive footage)
• Philip Glass .... Himself
• Brion Gysin .... Himself (archive footage)
• Tom Hayden .... Himself
• Abbie Hoffman .... Himself (archive footage)
• Billie Holiday .... Herself (archive footage)
• J. Edgar Hoover .... Himself (archive footage)
• Bob Hope .... Himself (archive footage)
• Dennis Hopper .... William S. Burroughs
• Lyndon Johnson .... Himself (archive footage)
• Robert F. Kennedy .... Himself (archive footage)
• Jack Kerouac .... Himself (archive footage)
• Jan Kerouac .... Herself (archive footage)
• Ken Kesey .... Himself (archive footage)
• Martin Luther King .... Himself (archive footage)
• Paul Krassner .... Himself
• Timothy Leary .... Himself (archive footage)
• John Leguizamo .... Himself (archive footage)
• Norman Mailer .... Himself (archive footage)
• Steve Martin .... Himself (archive footage)
• Groucho Marx .... Himself (archive footage)
• Michael McClure .... Himself
• Jack Micheline .... Himself
• Gilbert Millstein .... Himself
• Robert Motherwell .... Himself (archive footage)
• Deborah Norville .... Herself (archive footage)
• Peter Orlovsky .... Himself (archive footage)
• Stuart Perkoff .... Himself (archive footage)
• Marlon Riggs .... Himself (archive footage)
• Henry Rollins .... Himself (archive footage)
• John Sampas .... Himself (archive footage)
• Ed Sanders .... Himself (archive footage)
• Gary Snyder .... Himself (archive footage)
• Terry Southern .... Himself
• George Steade .... Himself
• John Turturro .... Allen Ginsberg
• Philip Whalen .... Himself

Director
• Chuck Workman

Producer
• Mark Apostolon
• Chuck Workman
• Hiro Yamagata

Cinematography
• Andrew Dintenfass
• Tom Hurwitz
• Don Lenzer
• José Louis Mignone
• Nancy Schreiber