Credits
The Color Purple Cast and Crew
Cast
Danny Glover
Whoopi Goldberg
Margaret Avery
Oprah Winfrey
Willard E. Pugh
Akosua Busia
Desreta Jackson
Adolph Caesar
Rae Dawn Chong
Dana Ivey
Leonard Jackson
Bennet Guillory
John Patton Jr.
Carl Anderson
Susan Beaubian
James Tillis
Phillip Strong
Laurence Fishburne
Peto Kinsaka
Lelo Masamba
Margaret Freeman
Howard Starr
Daphaine Oliver
Jadili Johnson
Lillian Njoki Distefano
Donna Buie
Leon Rippy
John R. Hart
David Thomas
Carrie Murphy
Juliet Poe
Katie Simon
Ethel Taylor
Marcus Covington
Marcus Liles
April Myers
Maurice Moore
Lechanda Latharp
Drew Bundini Brown
Arnold F. Turner
Crew
- Quincy Jones
Producer · Production
- Jon Peters
Executive Producer · Production
- Bo Welch
Art Direction · Art
- Kathleen Kennedy
Producer · Production
- Michael Kahn
Editor · Editing
- Menno Meyjes
Screenplay · Writing
- Steven Spielberg
Director · Directing
- Alice Walker
Novel · Writing
- Richard Alonzo
Makeup Artist · Costume & Make-Up
- Steven Spielberg
Producer · Production
- Frank Marshall
Producer · Production
- Allen Daviau
Director of Photography · Camera
- Aggie Guerard Rodgers
Costume Design · Costume & Make-Up
- Peter Guber
Executive Producer · Production
- Quincy Jones
Original Music Composer · Sound
- Linda DeScenna
Set Decoration · Art
- Carole Isenberg
Producer · Production
- J. Michael Riva
Production Design · Art
- Robert Samuels
Second Assistant Camera · Camera
- Joel Rosenbaum
Orchestrator · Sound
- Jack Hayes
Orchestrator · Sound
- Jerry Hey
Orchestrator · Sound
- Andraé Crouch
Music Arranger · Sound
- Randy Kerber
Orchestrator · Sound
- Fred Steiner
Orchestrator · Sound
- Jorge Calandrelli
Orchestrator · Sound
- Quincy Jones
Lyricist · Writing
- David Del Sesto
Songs · Sound
- Bill Maxwell
Songs · Sound
- Andraé Crouch
Songs · Sound
- Rod Temperton
Songs · Sound
- Rod Temperton
Lyricist · Writing
- Quincy Jones
Songs · Sound
- Lionel Richie
Lyricist · Writing
- Dana Dru Evenson
Stunt Double · Crew
- Alan L. Nineberg
ADR Editor · Sound
- Tony Brubaker
Stunts · Crew