St. Elsewhere guest stars

747 actors have guest-starred in St. Elsewhere across 137 episodes and 6 seasons. The most-credited is Barbara Whinnery, Dr. Cathy Martin in 32 episodes. 375 of them have also guest-starred in five or more of the other shows in this catalogue.

Who came back most

St. Elsewhere guest actors by episode count
Actor	Character	Eps
Barbara Whinnery	Dr. Cathy Martin	32
Florence Halop	Mrs. Hufnagel	18
Herb Edelman	Richard Clarendon	18
Byron Stewart	Warren Coolidge	17
Dana Short	Elizabeth Westphall	16
Chad Allen	Tommy Westphall	15
Alfre Woodard	Dr. Roxanne Turner	12
Karen Landry	Myra White	12
Paul Sand	Dr. Michael Ridley	12
Deborah May	Terri Valere	11
Christina Kokubo	Paramedic Faith Yee	10
Frank Dent	Dr. Steven Kiley	10
George DelHoyo	Ken Valere	10
Philip Sterling	Dr. Simon Weiss	9
S. Pearl Sharp	Nurse Peggy Shotwell	9
Helen Hunt	Clancy Williams	8
Ian Fried	Jeff Rosenthal	8
Jean Bruce Scott	Roberta Sloan	8
Jeannie Elias	Marcy Eisenberg	8
Marian Mercer	Eve Leighton	8
Stephen Elliott	Manny Schecter	8
Ernie Hudson	Jerry Close	6
Oliver Clark	John Doe #6	6
Richard Marcus	Ralph Selover	6
Cady McClain	Erin Rosenthal Scheinfeld	5

St. Elsewhere guest stars by season

Guest actors per season of St. Elsewhere
Season	Guests	Who
Season 1	192	Barbara Whinnery, Karen Landry, Richard Marcus, Melody Anderson, Roxanne Reese, Deborah White, Alice Cadogan, Dorothy Fielding, Jack Bannon, Jane Kaczmarek, Lance Guest, Laraine Newman and 180 more
Season 2	188	Paul Sand, Barbara Whinnery, Jean Bruce Scott, Marian Mercer, Rosanne Katon, Dana Short, Frank Dent, Alan Arkin, Angela Clarke, Dan Hedaya, Elizabeth Ruscio, Eric Stoltz and 176 more
Season 3	196	Florence Halop, Herb Edelman, Byron Stewart, Barbara Whinnery, Stephen Elliott, Ernie Hudson, Jeannie Elias, Chad Allen, Dana Short, Ian Fried, John Hammond, Patricia Conklin and 184 more
Season 4	197	Deborah May, Alfre Woodard, George DelHoyo, Chad Allen, Leah Ayres, Philip Sterling, Byron Stewart, Christina Kokubo, Dana Short, James Dratfield, Karl Lukas, Oliver Clark and 185 more
Season 5	52	Jamie Rose, Gerald Hiken, Alfre Woodard, Chad Allen, Christine Healy, George O. Petrie, Oliver Clark, Patricia Wettig, Stephen Shortridge, Bernie Kuby, Bettye Ackerman, Brandon Call and 40 more
Season 6	3	Herb Edelman, Louis Nye, Tom Poston

Guest stars you know from somewhere else

The hardest-working character actors in this show's guest cast, ranked by how many other shows in this catalogue they have also guest-starred in. Not the most famous names, the most prolific ones.

St. Elsewhere guest stars who appear in other shows
Actor	In St. Elsewhere	Other shows
James Hong	Mr. Wong	38
Sam Anderson	Mr. McGrath	38
Dakin Matthews	TBD	36
Ernie Hudson	Jerry Close	32
Alan Fudge	TBD	32
Jenny O'Hara	Sue Follett	31
Brian McNamara	Michael Endicott	29
Keone Young	Hong	29
K Callan	Patty Galecki	28
Barbara Tarbuck	Agnes Najinsky	28
Robert Costanzo	Mr. Broadwater	27
Bruce Gray	Colonel Harvey Blackwell	26
Jim Lau	Dr. Chin	26
Joel Polis	Jeff Hassett	25
Steven M. Gagnon	Gary Halloran	25

Played more than one character

St. Elsewhere actors credited under several characters
Actor	Characters	Eps
Rae Dawn Chong	Billie Vaughn, Hooker	4
Al Ruscio	Raleigh, Mr. Morlin	3
Carolyn Coates	Mrs. Fordham, Beverly Fordham	3
Paco Vela	Nurse Juan Numero, Doctor	3
Ben Slack	Louie, Mr. Samrock	2
David C. Glasser	Boy, Josh Green	2
Harry Stephens	Joe Roecklin, Technician	2
Jill Wakewood	Cafeteria Worker, Dietician Edie Wraugh	2
Jo de Winter	Iris York, TBD	2
Paul Linke	Dr. Herb Bensick, Mitch Hopson	2

Shares a cast with

St. Elsewhere and L.A. Law — 163 shared actors
St. Elsewhere and Murder, She Wrote — 148 shared actors
St. Elsewhere and Hunter — 124 shared actors
St. Elsewhere and ER — 119 shared actors
St. Elsewhere and Matlock — 116 shared actors
St. Elsewhere and Highway to Heaven — 101 shared actors
St. Elsewhere and Knots Landing — 97 shared actors
St. Elsewhere and Dallas — 85 shared actors

Cast data from TVmaze, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.