| Person | Type | Job | Role(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
 Adam Somner | Crew | Production | Production Runner |
 Alexander Courage | Crew | Sound | Original Music Composer |
 Alf Joint | Crew | Crew | Stunt Coordinator |
 Christopher Reeve | Crew | Writing | Story |
 Ernest Day | Crew | Camera | Director of Photography |
Graham Easton | Crew | Production | Associate Producer |
 Jerry Siegel | Crew | Writing | Characters |
 Joe Shuster | Crew | Writing | Characters |
John Bloomfield | Crew | Costume & Make-Up | Costume Design |
John Graysmark | Crew | Art | Production Design |
John Shirley | Crew | Editing | Editor |
 John Williams | Crew | Sound | Songs |
 Lawrence Konner | Crew | Writing | Screenplay, Story |
 Mark Rosenthal | Crew | Writing | Screenplay, Story |
 Menahem Golan | Crew | Production | Producer |
Michael J. Kagan | Crew | Production | Executive Producer |
Paul Fishman | Crew | Crew | Additional Music |
 Sidney J. Furie | Crew | Directing | Director |
Stuart Freeborn | Crew | Costume & Make-Up | Makeup Department Head |
Tina Maskell | Crew | Crew | Stunts |
 Yoram Globus | Crew | Production | Producer |
Sarah Franzl | Crew | Crew | Stunts |
 Elaine Ford | Crew | Crew | Stunts |
 Bob Sherman | Cast | Actor | Senator - Pentagon |
 Bradley Lavelle | Cast | Actor | Tall Marshall |
Christopher Reeve | Cast | Actor | Clark Kent / Superman |
 Czeslaw Grocholski | Cast | Actor | Russian General 1 |
Damian McLawhorn | Cast | Jeremy | |
David Garth | Cast | Actor | First Elder |
Dennis Creaghan | Cast | Actor | Bill Compton |
Diana Hunter | Cast | Actress | Museum Tour Guide |
 Don Fellows | Cast | Actor | Levon Hornsby |
 Eiji Kusuhara | Cast | Actor | U.N. Guard - Japanese |
 Esmond Knight | Cast | Actor | Second Elder |
 Eugene Lipinski | Cast | Actor | Cosmonaut - Space Walker |
 Gene Hackman | Cast | Actor | Lex Luthor |
 Indira Joshi | Cast | Actress | Secretary General U.N. |
 Jackie Cooper | Cast | Actor | Perry White |
 Jayne Brook | Cast | Actress | Teacher - JFK High School |
 Jim Broadbent | Cast | Actor | Jean Pierre Dubois |
 Jiří Stanislav | Cast | Actor | Cosmonaut |
 John Hollis | Cast | Actor | Russian General 3 (Kremlin) |
 Jon Cryer | Cast | Actor | Lenny |
 Kerry Shale | Cast | Actor | MBC Newscaster |
 Mac McDonald | Cast | Actor | Marshall #2 |
 Marc McClure | Cast | Actor | Jimmy Olsen |
 Margot Kidder | Cast | Actress | Lois Lane |
 Mariel Hemingway | Cast | Actress | Lacy Warfield |
 Mark Caven | Cast | Actor | Priest - Boystown |
Peter Penry-Jones | Cast | Actor | Tourist - Great Wall of China |
Philip Fox | Cast | Actor | Husband - Great Wall of China |
 Robert Beatty | Cast | Actor | U.S. President |
Ron Travis | Cast | Convict | |
 Sam Wanamaker | Cast | Actor | David Warfield |
Samantha Weysom | Cast | Actress | Lex Luther Girlfriend |
 Stanley Lebor | Cast | Actor | General Romoff |
 Susannah York | Cast | Actress | Lara (voice) |
 Ted Maynard | Cast | Actor | Army Chief |
 William Hootkins | Cast | Actor | Harry Howler |
 Kenneth Coombs | Cast | Actor | Reporter |
 Yuri Borienko | Cast | Actor | Russian General - Red Square |
 Steve Plytas | Cast | Actor | Russian General #2 |
Mark Pillow | Cast | Actor | Nuclear Man |
 Rex Robinson | Cast | Actor | Engineer - Subway |
 Dorota Zięciowska | Cast | Actress | Cosmonaut |
 Boris Isarov | Cast | Actor | Cosmonaut Captain |
Keith Edwards | Cast | Actor | Technician - Fort Mason |
 Jill Goldston | Cast | Actress | Commuter (uncredited) |
Witold Schejbal | Cast | Actor | Russian Premiere |
Colin Hunt | Cast | Sergeant York (uncredited) | |
Douglas W. Iles | Cast | Chief of Staff | |
Guinevere John | Cast | Tourist - Great Wall of China | |
 Nicholas Colicos | Cast | Actor | Paul - Metro Sports Club |
Jimmy Fung | Cast | Actor | Chinese Official - Great Wall of China |
John Cagon | Cast | Technician | |
Raymond Marlowe | Cast | Navy Chief | |
Malcolm Bullivant | Cast | Actor | U.N. Guard - Swedish |
| Person | Type | Job | Role(s) |
