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Lt. Pete "Maverick" Mitchell
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Cast
- Kelly McGillisCharlotte "Charlie" Blackwood
- Anthony EdwardsLt. Nick "Goose" Bradshaw
- Val KilmerLt. Tom "Iceman" Kazanski
- Tom SkerrittCmdr. Mike "Viper" Metcalf
- Michael IronsideLt. Cmdr. Rick "Jester" Heatherly
- John StockwellCougar
- Barry TubbWolfman
- Rick RossovichLt. Ron "Slider" Kerner
- Tim RobbinsLt. Sam "Merlin" Wells
Clarence GilyardSundown- James TolkanStinger
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- Tom Cruise as Lt Pete “Maverick” Mitchell
- Kelly Mcgillis as Charlie Blackwood
- Anthony Edwards as LTJG Nick “Goose” Bradshaw
- Val Kilmer as Lt Tom “Iceman” Kazansky
- Tom Skerritt as CDR Mike “Viper” Metcalf
- Meg Ryan as Carole Bradshaw
- Top Gun Supporting Cast & Characters
Tom Cruise leads the Top Gun cast as LT Pete “Maverick” Mitchell, the roguish, charismatic U.S. Navy pilot at the center of the movie. Cruise later reprised the role in the sequel, Top Gun: Maverick. Cruise got his breakout with the classic 1980s comedy Risky Business and went on to impress critics with his dramatic abilities in The Color of Money,...
Maverick’s love interest, Top Gun instructor Charlie Blackwood, is played by Kelly McGillis. Outsider her role in the Top Gun cast, the actress is best known for playing Rachel Lapp, the Amish widow who hides Harrison Ford’s Detective John Book when he’s targeted by crooked cops in the acclaimed thriller Witness, which earned her Golden Globe and B...
Anthony Edwards appears in the Top Gun cast as LTJG Nick “Goose” Bradshaw, Maverick’s radar intercept officer and best friend. Edwards is most renowned for playing the now-deceased Dr. Mark Greene in ER, which earned him a Golden Globe, six SAG Awards, and four consecutive Emmy nominations. He also played Inspector William Armstrong in Zodiac and t...
Top Gun student LT Tom “Iceman” Kazansky, Maverick’s rival and later his wingman, is played by Val Kilmer. The actor reprised the role for a brief but poignant cameo appearance in Top Gun: Maverick. Kilmer has starred in a wide variety of movies, from the absurdist spoof Top Secret! to the action-packed neo-noir epic Heat to the fantasy adventure W...
Tom Skerritt appears in the Top Gun cast as CDR Mike “Viper” Metcalf, Maverick’s commanding officer and instructor at Top Gun. Viper served alongside Maverick’s father, Duke Mitchell, in the Vietnam War. Skerritt was already an established star before taking the role of Viper in Top Gun. He’d played Duke Forrest in Robert Altman’s original movie ve...
Carole Bradshaw, Goose’s loving wife and mother of his son, Bradley, is played by Meg Ryan. The actress got her start on the soap opera As the World Turns before appearing in Top Gun. She rose to fame with her leading role opposite Billy Crystal in the seminal romantic comedy When Harry Met Sally, for which she scored a Golden Globe nomination. She...
Michael Ironside as LCDR Rick “Jester” Heatherly: LCDR Rick “Jester” Heatherly, a Naval aviator and Top Gun instructor, is played by Michael Ironside. The actor is best known for playing villainous roles like Darryl Revok in Scanners and Agent Richter in Total Recall. But he has also played sympathetic roles, like Jester in Top Gun and teacher-turn...
May 16, 1986 · Top Gun: Directed by Tony Scott. With Tom Cruise, Kelly McGillis, Val Kilmer, Anthony Edwards. As students at the United States Navy's elite fighter weapons school compete to be best in the class, one daring young pilot learns a few things from a civilian instructor that are not taught in the classroom.
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- Tony Scott
Top Gun is a 1986 American action drama film directed by Tony Scott and produced by Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer, with distribution by Paramount Pictures. The screenplay was written by Jim Cash and Jack Epps Jr. , and was inspired by an article titled "Top Guns", written by Ehud Yonay and published in California magazine three years earlier.
- $15 million
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For Lieutenant Pete 'Maverick' Mitchell and his friend and co-pilot Nick 'Goose' Bradshaw, being accepted into an elite training school for fighter pilots is a dream come true. But a tragedy, as well as personal demons, will threaten Pete's dreams of becoming an ace pilot.
After more than thirty years of service as one of the Navy’s top aviators, and dodging the advancement in rank that would ground him, Pete “Maverick” Mitchell finds himself training a detachment of TOP GUN graduates for a specialized mission the likes of which no living pilot has ever seen.
