 | Gene Hackman als Lex Luthor |
 | Christopher Reeve als Clark Kent / Superman |
 | Ned Beatty als Otis |
 | Jackie Cooper als Perry White |
 | Sarah Douglas als Ursa |
 | Jack O'Halloran als Non |
 | Margot Kidder als Lois Lane |
 | Valerie Perrine als Eve Teschmacher |
 | Susannah York als Lara |
 | Clifton James als Sheriff |
 | E.G. Marshall als The President |
 | Marc McClure als Jimmy Olsen |
 | Terence Stamp als General Zod |
 | Leueen Willoughby als Leueen |
| Robin Pappas als Alice |
| Roger Kemp als Spokesman |
 | Roger Brierley als Terrorist |
| Anthony Milner als Terrorist |
 | Richard Griffiths als Terrorist |
| Melissa Wiltsie als Nun |
| Alain Dehay als Gendarme |
| Marc Boyle als C.R.S. Man |
| Alan Stuart als Cab Driver |
 | John Ratzenberger als Controller |
 | Shane Rimmer als Controller |
 | John Morton als Nate |
| Jim Dowdall als Boris |
 | Angus MacInnes als Prison Warder |
 | Antony Sher als Bell Boy |
 | Elva Mai Hoover als Mother |
| Hadley Kay als Jason |
| Todd Woodcroft als Father |
 | John Hollis als Krypton Elder |
 | Gordon Rollings als Fisherman |
| Peter Whitman als Deputy |
| Bill Bailey als J.J. |
| Dinny Powell als Boog |
 | Hal Galili als Man at Bar |
 | Marcus D'Amico als Willie |
 | Richard LeParmentier als Reporter |
 | Don Fellows als General |
| Tony Sibbald als Presidential Imposter |
 | Tommy Duggan als Diner Owner |
| Pamela Mandell als Waitress |
 | Pepper Martin als Rocky |
 | Eugene Lipinski als Newsvendor |
| Cleon Spencer als Kid |
| Carl Parris als Kid |
| Jack Cooper als Dino |
 | Norman Chancer als White House Aide (uncredited) |
 | Jean-Pierre Cassel als French Officer at the White House (uncredited) |
 | Richard Donner als Man Walking by Diner (uncredited) |
 | Jeff East als Teenage Clark Kent (archive footage) (uncredited) |
 | Glenn Ford als Jonathan Kent in Opening Montage (archive footage) (uncredited) |
 | Trevor Howard als Krypton Elder (archive footage) (uncredited) |
 | Michael Shannon als President's Aide |
 | John Cannon als Prison Inmate (uncredited) |
| Mario Puzo | Screenplay |
| Richard Lester | Director |
| Leslie Newman | Screenplay |
| Ken Thorne | Original Music Composer |
| Robert Paynter | Director of Photography |
| David Newman | Screenplay |
| Jerry Siegel | Characters |
| Joe Shuster | Characters |
| Geoffrey Unsworth | Director of Photography |
| Pierre Spengler | Producer |
| John Victor-Smith | Editor |
| Maria Monreal | Other |
| Ilya Salkind | Executive Producer |
| John Barry | Production Design |
| Peter Murton | Production Design |
| Lynn Stalmaster | Casting |
| Mario Puzo | Story |
| Debbie McWilliams | Casting |
| Peter Young | Set Decoration |
| Roy Field | Visual Effects Supervisor |
| Geoffrey Helman | Production Manager |
| Chic Waterson | Camera Operator |
| Stuart Freeborn | Makeup Artist |
| Colin Chilvers | Special Effects Supervisor |
| Maurice Fowler | Supervising Art Director |
| Terry Ackland-Snow | Art Direction |
| Norman Reynolds | Art Direction |
| Ernest Archer | Art Direction |
| Christopher Newman | Assistant Director |
| Tom Mankiewicz | Creative Consultant |
| Robert Lynn | Other |
| Douglas Noakes | Production Accountant |
| John Harris | Camera Operator |
| Charles Bishop | Art Direction |
| Ginger Gemmel | Camera Operator |
| Terry Madden | Assistant Director |
| Sue Yelland | Costume Design |
| Vincent Winter | Production Manager |
| Don Sharpe | Sound Editor |
| Yvonne Blake | Costume Design |
| Frans J. Afman | Finance |
| Denys N. Coop | Other |
| Zoran Perisic | Special Effects Supervisor |
| Roy Charman | Sound Mixer |
| Raoul Girard | Assistant Director |
| Robert Simmonds | Production Manager |
| David Garfath | Camera Operator |
| John Morgan | Camera Operator |
| Paul Storey | Assistant Director |
| Allan James | Unit Manager |
| Paul Wilson | Other |
| Freddie Cooper | Camera Operator |
| Peter MacDonald | Camera Operator |
| Gareth Tandy | Assistant Director |
| Dusty Symonds | Assistant Director |
| Tim Hampton | Production Supervisor |
| Roy Button | Assistant Director |
| Cecil F. Ford | Production Supervisor |
| Peter Howitt | Set Decoration |
| David Wynn-Jones | First Assistant Camera |
| David Wynn-Jones | Focus Puller |
| Michele Tandy | Assistant Accountant |
| Vic Armstrong | Stunt Coordinator |
| Nereida Soto | Hairstylist |
| Pat McDermott | Hairdresser |
| Joan White | Hairdresser |
| Bobbie Smith | Hairdresser |
| Paul Weston | Stunt Coordinator |
| Alf Joint | Stunt Coordinator |
| Jacob Rupp | Stunts |
| Vic Armstrong | Stunt Double |
| Chris Webb | Stunts |
| Terry Yorke | Stunts |
| Clive Curtis | Stunts |
| Graeme Crowther | Stunts |
| Tim Condren | Stunts |
| Cyd Child | Stunts |
| George Lane Cooper | Stunts |
| Jack Cooper | Stunts |
| Joe Dunne | Stunts |
| Stuart Fell | Stunts |
| Peter Diamond | Stunts |
| Nick Gillard | Stunts |
| Tex Fuller | Stunts |
| Arthur Howell | Stunts |
| Billy Horrigan | Stunts |
| Mark McBride | Stunts |
| Wendy Leech | Stunts |
| Peter Munt | Stunts |
| Terence Plummer | Stunts |
| Valentino Musetti | Stunts |
| Greg Powell | Stunts |
| Doug Robinson | Stunts |
| Terry Richards | Stunts |
| Stuart St. Paul | Stunts |
| Colin Skeaping | Stunts |
| Johan Thorén | Stunts |
| David Tomblin | Second Unit Director |
| Jim Morahan | Assistant Art Director |
| Graham Churchyard | Costume Assistant |
