D.W. Griffith Director, Producer Walter Huston Abraham Lincoln Actor Una Merkel Ann Rutledge Actor Kay Hammond Mary Todd Lincoln Actor Edgar Dearing Jack Armstrong Actor Russell Simpson Uncle Jimmy Actor Cameron Prud'Homme John Hay Actor Oscar Apfel Secretary of War Edwin Stanton Actor Henry B. Walthall Col. Marshall Actor James Eagles Young Soldier Actor Ian Keith John Wilkes Booth Actor John W. Considine Jr. Writer Stephen Vincent Benet Writer Joseph M. Schenck Producer