Shirley Jo FinneyWilma Rudolph Cicely TysonBlanche Rudolph Jason BernardCoach Temple Denzel WashingtonRobert Eldridge, age 18 Charles BlackwellCoach Gray Réjane MagloireWilma, age 12 L. Warren YoungPost Office Assistant Larry ScottRobert Eldridge, age 12 Piper CarterWilma - Age 4 Pauletta WashingtonMae Faggs (as Paulette Pearson) Andrea FriersonMartha Hudson J. Franklin TaylorPrincipal Bud GreenspanDirector / Writer / Producer Cappy Petrash GreenspanExecutive Producer Arthur J. OrnitzDirector Of Photography Irwin BazelonOriginal Music Composer 
