<Ul> <Li> Tim Robbins as Andy Dufresne: A banker sentenced to life in prison in 1947 for the murder of his wife and her lover </Li> <Li> Morgan Freeman as Ellis Boyd "Red" Redding: A prison contraband smuggler who befriends Andy </Li> <Li> Bob Gunton as Samuel Norton: The pious and strict warden of Shawshank penitentiary </Li> <Li> William Sadler as Heywood: A member of Red's gang of long - serving convicts </Li> <Li> Clancy Brown as Byron Hadley: The brutal captain of the prison guards </Li> <Li> Gil Bellows as Tommy Williams: A young convict imprisoned for burglary in 1965 </Li> <Li> James Whitmore as Brooks Hatlen: The elderly prison librarian, imprisoned since the early 1900s </Li> </Ul> <Li> Tim Robbins as Andy Dufresne: A banker sentenced to life in prison in 1947 for the murder of his wife and her lover </Li> <Li> Morgan Freeman as Ellis Boyd "Red" Redding: A prison contraband smuggler who befriends Andy </Li> <Li> Bob Gunton as Samuel Norton: The pious and strict warden of Shawshank penitentiary </Li>

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