

""The best teacher is experience.""
Sal Paradise is a young writer whose life is shaken and ultimately redefined by the arrival of Dean Moriarty, a free-spirited, fearless, fast talking Westerner and his girl, Marylou. Traveling cross-country, Sal and Dean venture out on a personal quest for freedom from the conformity and conservatism engulfing them in search of the unknown, themselves, and the pursuit of “it” -- the pure essence of experience.
Dean Moriarty / Neal Cassady

Sal Paradise / Jack Kerouac

Marylou / LuAnne Henderson

Jane / Joan Vollmer

Carlo Marx / Allen Ginsberg

Ed Dunkle / Al Hinkle

Terry / Bea Franco

Galatea Dunkel / Helen Hinkle

Camille / Carolyn Cassady

Old Bull Lee / William S. Burroughs

Tall thin salesman

Walter

Virginia Cop

Vicki

Laura

Paul

Tonia

Puta Loca Roja

Slim Gaillard

Rita Bettancourt

Alfred

Henry Glass

Montana Slim

Irish Catholic Priest

Maitre D

Oaxacan Girl
Newlywed Woman
Chevy Owner

Terry's Father

Newlywed Man

Walter's Wife (as Tetchena Bellange)

Denver Police
Grocery Store Owner
Disgruntled Driver

Chad King

New Jersey Policeman

Joanie 17 months

Cotton Foreman

Victor
Paul's Father

Inez

Johnny

Migrant Worker

Black Woman

Okie Woman

Parking Lot Boss

Ma Paradise

Nin Paradise

Sam Pharmacy

Tom Saybrook

Mississippi Gene

Denver Barber

Okie Hitchhiker

Hotel Clerk

Remi Boncoeur
Pecos Truck Driver

Dorie

Paul's Mother

Venezuelan Girl

Old Tramp

Old Bartender
Blond Kid

Migrant Truck Driver

Migrant Worker
Dona Gregoria
Dynamite Truck Driver

Broadway Sam
Dodie Lee (8)

Paul's Old Aunt
Whorehouse Girl 1
Whorehouse Girl 2
Farmer’s Daughter (uncredited)

Ghostly Hobo (uncredited)