Characters played by Richard Easton
Benjamin Franklin
Characters played by Dylan Baker
Franklin as a young man
Characters played by Colm Feore
Narrator
Characters played by Sebastian Roché
Vicomte
Characters played by Blair Brown
Jane Franklin Mecom
Characters played by Jim True-Frost
William Franklin
Characters played by Kathleen Chalfant
Silence Dogood
Characters played by John Christopher Jones
Ephraim Eliot
Characters played by Anthony Heald
Jonathan Austin
Characters played by Gerry Bamman
Paul Wentworth
Characters played by Josef Sommer
Cotton Mather
Characters played by Simon Jones
Thomas Penn
Characters played by Peter Gerety
Joseph Galloway
Characters played by Jennifer Dundas
Catherine Ray
Characters played by Ronald Guttman
Le Comte de Vergennes
Characters played by Jefferson Mays
Elkanah Watson
Characters played by Daniel Gerroll
Joseph Priestley
Characters played by Roberta Maxwell
Deborah Read Franklin
Characters played by Martin Rayner
Robert Whittington
Characters played by Peter Donaldson
John Adams
Characters played by Natacha Roi
Mme. Brillon de Jouy
Characters played by Anthony Cochrane
King George III
Characters played by Eddie Korbich
Jared Ruggles
Characters played by John Curless
William Strahan
Characters played by Andrew Seear
British Government Official
Characters played by Carol Berkin
Self - Baruch College
Characters played by Claude-Anne Lopez
Self - The Papers of Benjamin Franklin
Yale University
Characters played by Keith Arbour
Self - Historian
Characters played by Michael Bentley
Benjamin as a child
Characters played by Ralph Lerner
Self - University of Chicago
Characters played by Edmund Morgan
Self - Yale University
Characters played by Michael Zuckerman
Self - University of Pennsylvania
Characters played by Pauline Maier
Self - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Characters played by Joseph Becton
Self - Park Ranger
Independence National Historical Park
Characters played by Matthew Bentley
Benjamin as a child
Characters played by H.W. Brands
Self - Texas A & M University
Characters played by Dudley Herschbach
Self - Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Harvard University
Characters played by Robert Middlekauff
Self - University of California
Berkeley
Characters played by Gordon S. Wood
Self - Brown University
Characters played by Thomas Fleming
Self - Author
Characters played by Ralph Archbold
Ben Franklin
Characters played by Walter Isaacson
Self - Chairman & CEO
CNN
Characters played by Barbara Oberg
Self - Princeton University
Characters played by Gary B. Nash
Self - University of California at Los Angeles
Characters played by John Shy
Self - University of Michigan
Characters played by David Taft Morgan
Self - University of Montevallo
Characters played by E. Philip Krider
Self - Institute of Atmospheric Physics
University of Arizona
Characters played by Douglas Anderson
Self - University of Georgia
Characters played by Willard Sterne Randall
Self - Champlain College
Characters played by Jonathan R. Dull
Self - The Papers of Benjamin Franklin
Yale University
Characters played by Bernard I. Cohen
Self - Harvard University
Characters played by Sheila Skemp
Self - University of Mississippi
Characters played by Laurent St. Pierre
Count de Segur