Full cast of Reading Rainbow

LeVar Burton

Self - Host

155 episodes

Ruby Dee

Self - Narrator (voice)

3 episodes

Arnold Stang

Self - Narrator (voice)

3 episodes

Fred Newman

Self - Narrator (voice) / Dr. Yorik Skull

3 episodes

Vincent Gardenia

Self - Narrator (voice)

2 episodes

Michael Ansara

Self - Narrator (voice)

2 episodes

Linda Gelman

Self - Narrator (voice) / Narrator (voice)

2 episodes

James Avery

Self - Narrator (voice)

2 episodes

Lea Salonga

Self - Narrator (voice)

2 episodes

Julia Child

Self - Narrator (voice)

1 episode

Ruth Buzzi

Self - Narrator (voice)

1 episode

Madeline Kahn

Self - Narrator (voice)

1 episode

James Earl Jones

Self - Narrator (voice)

1 episode

Lauren Tom

Self - Narrator (voice)

1 episode

Patrick McCaffrey

Self - Narrator (voice)

1 episode

Douglas Parvin

Self - Narrator (voice)

1 episode

Carolyn McHanon

Self - Narrator (voice)

1 episode

Marilyn Michaels

Self - Narrator (voice)

1 episode

Bill Cosby

Self - Narrator (voice)

1 episode

Kaleena Kiff

Self - Narrator (voice)

1 episode

Laura Hicks

Self - Narrator (voice)

1 episode

Lou Rawls

Self - Narrator (voice)

1 episode

William Windom

Self - Narrator (voice)

1 episode

Lorne Greene

Self - Narrator (voice)

1 episode

Raúl Juliá

Self - Narrator (voice)

1 episode

Amy Linker

Self - Narrator (voice)

1 episode

Buddy Ebsen

Self - Narrator (voice)

1 episode

Isabel Sanford

Self - Narrator (voice)

1 episode

Fernando Escandon

Self - Narrator (voice)

1 episode

Gilda Radner

Self - Narrator (voice)

1 episode

James Coco

Self - Narrator (voice)

1 episode

Martin Short

Self - Narrator (voice)

1 episode

Laura Haymann

Self - Narrator (voice)

1 episode

Michael Winslow

Self - Narrator (voice)

1 episode

Alaina Reed Hall

Self - Narrator (voice)

1 episode

Imogene Coca

Self - Narrator (voice)

1 episode

Molly Mandlin

Self - Narrator (voice)

1 episode

Pete Seeger

Self - Narrator (voice)

1 episode

Barbara Feldon

Self - Narrator (voice)

1 episode

Sada Thompson

Self - Narrator (voice)

1 episode

Georgia Engel

Self - Narrator (voice)

1 episode

Keye Luke

Self - Narrator (voice)

1 episode

Orson Bean

Self - Narrator (voice)

1 episode

Zelda Rubinstein

Self - Narrator (voice)

1 episode

Ralph Waite

Self - Narrator (voice)

1 episode

Liza Siegler

Self - Narrator (voice)

1 episode

Hoyt Axton

Self - Narrator (voice)

1 episode

Ron Foster

Self - Narrator (voice)

1 episode

Gene Klavan

Self - Narrator (voice)

1 episode

Lori Delgado

Self - Narrator (voice)

1 episode

Edwin Maldonado

Self - Narrator (voice)

1 episode

Peter Falk

Self - Narrator (voice)

1 episode

Héctor Elizondo

Self - Narrator (voice)

1 episode

Jack Gilford

Self - Narrator (voice)

1 episode

Roy Clark

Self - Narrator (voice)

1 episode

Jane Curtin

Self - Narrator (voice)

1 episode

J. Reuben Silverbird

Self - Narrator (voice)

1 episode

Kenneth Blank

Self - Narrator (voice)

1 episode

Corinne Orr

Self - Narrator (voice)

1 episode

Phylicia Rashād

Narrator (voice)

1 episode

Michele Mariana

Self - Narrator (voice)

1 episode

Josh Saviano

Self - Narrator (voice)

1 episode

Phyllis Diller

Self - Narrator (voice)

1 episode

Ed Asner

Self - Narrator (voice)

1 episode

Fran Brill

Self - Narrator (voice)

1 episode

Philip Bosco

Self - Narrator (voice)

1 episode

Victoria Jackson

Self - Narrator (voice)

1 episode

Alex Borg

Self - Narrator (voice)

1 episode

David Hyman

Self - Narrator (voice)

1 episode

Keshia Knight Pulliam

Self - Narrator (voice)

1 episode

Leslie Uggams

Self - Narrator (voice)

1 episode

Tom Matsusaka

Self - Narrator (voice)

1 episode

Robert Morse

Self - Narrator (voice)

1 episode

Harold Littlebird

Self - Narrator (voice)

1 episode

Hattie Winston

Self - Narrator (voice)

1 episode

Julia Barr

Self - Narrator (voice)

1 episode

Marilyn Pasekoff

Self - Narrator (voice)

1 episode

Brian Dennehy

Self - Narrator (voice)

1 episode

Lena Horne

Self - Narrator (voice)

1 episode

Lacey Chabert

Self - Narrator (voice)

1 episode

Richard Courtney

Self - Narrator (voice)

1 episode

Jason Ruggiero

Self - Narrator (voice)

1 episode

Jason Robards

Self - Narrator (voice)

1 episode

Viveca Lindfors

Self - Narrator (voice)

1 episode

Jessica Walter

Self - Narrator (voice)

1 episode

Dixie Carter

Self - Narrator (voice)

1 episode

Tovah Feldshuh

Self - Narrator (voice)

1 episode

Andrew Lei

Self - Narrator (voice)

1 episode

Tyne Daly

Self - Narrator (voice)

1 episode

Reizl Bozyk

Self - Narrator (voice)

1 episode

Lynne Thigpen

Self - Narrator (voice)

1 episode

Keith David

Narrator (voice)

1 episode

Beth Howland

Self - Narrator (voice)

1 episode

Eartha Kitt

Self - Narrator (voice)

1 episode

Charles Kimbrough

Self - Narrator (voice)

1 episode

Faith Prince

Self - Narrator (voice)

1 episode

Olga Merediz

Self - Narrator (voice)

1 episode

Ossie Davis

Self - Narrator (voice)

1 episode

Eli Wallach

Self - Narrator (voice)

1 episode

Michael Learned

Self - Narrator (voice)

1 episode

Rona Figueroa

Self - Narrator (voice)

1 episode

Al Roker

Self - Narrator (voice)

1 episode

Anne Jackson

Self - Narrator (voice)

1 episode

Robert Guillaume

Self - Narrator (voice)

1 episode

Linda Lavin

Self - Narrator (voice)

1 episode

Angela Bassett

Self - Narrator (voice)

1 episode

Jo Hayden

Self - Narrator (voice)

1 episode

Francisco Rivela

Self - Narrator (voice)

1 episode

Jamie Farr

Self - Narrator (voice)

1 episode

Daniel Saltzman

Self - Narrator (voice)

1 episode

Regina Taylor

Self - Narrator (voice)

1 episode

Helen Mirren

Self - Narrator (voice)

1 episode

Matthew Broderick

Self - Narrator (voice)

1 episode

Nick Sullivan

Self - Narrator (voice)

1 episode

B.J. Crosby

Self - Narrator (voice)

1 episode

Cecilia Arana

Self - Narrator (voice)

1 episode

Michael Uribe

Self - Narrator (voice)

1 episode

John Cunningham

Self - Narrator (voice)

1 episode

Carol Kane

Self - Narrator (voice)

1 episode

Gregory Hines

Self - Narrator (voice)

1 episode

Patrick Stewart

Self - Narrator (voice)

1 episode

Ann Duquesnay

Self - Narrator (voice)

1 episode

Anna Holbrook

Self - Narrator (voice)

1 episode

Nicholson Earl Billey

Self - Narrator (voice)

1 episode

Sarah Hubbard

Self - Narrator (voice)

1 episode

Michelle Trachtenberg

Self - Narrator (voice)

1 episode

Scott Irby-Ranniar

Self - Narrator (voice)

1 episode

Lucie Arnaz

Self - Narrator (voice)

1 episode

David Canary

Self - Narrator (voice)

1 episode

Susan Sarandon

Self - Narrator (voice)

1 episode

Jason Alexander

Self - Narrator (voice)

1 episode

Andrea McArdle

Self - Narrator (voice)

1 episode

Tim Conway

Self - Narrator (voice)

1 episode

Tom Magliozzi

Self - Narrator (voice)

1 episode

Ray Magliozzi

Self - Narrator (voice)

1 episode

Nikki Giovanni

Self - Narrator (voice)

1 episode

Jeff Bridges

Self - Narrator (voice)

1 episode

Regina King

Self - Narrator (voice)

1 episode

Ian Desdone

Self - Narrator (voice)

1 episode

Ed Harris

Self - Narrator (voice)

1 episode

Naomi Judd

Self - Narrator (voice)

1 episode

Alfre Woodard

Self - Narrator (voice)

1 episode

Eliza Dushku

Self - Narrator (voice)

1 episode

Wayne Brady

Self - Narrator (voice)

1 episode

Freddie Prinze Jr.

Self - Narrator (voice)

1 episode

Jordan Nia Elizabeth

Self - Narrator (voice)

1 episode

Richard Gere

Self - Narrator (voice)

1 episode

Elizabeth Jute

Self - Narrator (voice)

1 episode

Diahann Carroll

Self - Narrator (voice)

1 episode

Jim Henson

Kermit the Frog

1 episode

Kevin Clash

Self

1 episode

Jerry Stiller

Dinosaur Comedian (voice)

1 episode

Jane Pauley

Self - Narrator

1 episode

Jim Arnosky

Self

1 episode

Charles Fleischer

Luke (voice)

1 episode

Jason 'Jam Master Jay' Mizell

Self

1 episode

Joseph Simmons

Self (as Run)

1 episode

Darryl 'DMC' McDaniels

Self

1 episode

Susanne Blakeslee

Narrator (voice)

1 episode

Brad Oscar

Narrator (voice)

1 episode

Whoopi Goldberg

Self

1 episode

Christopher Oyen

Narrator (voice)

1 episode

Carol Schindler

Narrator (voice)

1 episode

Paul Zuckerman

Narrator (voice)

1 episode

Eric Bogosian

Conan the Librarian (voice)

1 episode