Fields of Gold

A. E. Staley went from growing up barefoot on a farm in North Carolina, to building a billion dollar agribusiness giant. He was the original owner of the football team that eventually became the Chicago Bears.

Documentary

Peter Coyote

(Narrator)

Ben Harl

(Chauffeur)

Ryan D Tebrugge

(Train Passenger)

Diane Dietz

(Emma Staley)

Earl L. Ijames

(Self - Curator, N.C. Museum of History)

Lana Wildman

(Train Passenger)

Lucas Staley

(young Arthur Staley / voice of young A.E. Staley)

Squire Prince

(Train Passenger)

Alex Staley

(young A.E. Staley / voice of teenage A.E. Staley)

Ken Mesnard

(Self - Grandson of Decatur Staley's Baseball Player Randy Young)

Mike D. Deetz

(G.E. Chamberlain (voice))

James Slade

(Self - Chairman, Staley Federal Credit Union)

Jason Aikens

(Self - Curator, Pro Football Hall of Fame)

Joyce Sternaman Howe

(Self - Daughter of Jo & Dutch Sternaman)

John Sciutto

(Self - Former President, Monticello Railway Museum)

John Lee

(Self - Director of Safety/Health, Grain & Feed Assn of IL)

Jack Garner

(Self - Nephew of A.E. Staley)

Becky Damptz

(Self - Head Archivist, Decatur Public Library)

George McCaskey

(Self - Chairman, Chicago Bears)

Rexlyn Nicole

(Self - Granddaughter of A.E. Staley Employees)

John F. Paris

(A.P. Titus (voice))

Jon Kendle

(Self - Pro Football Hall of Fame)

Daniel K. Wright

(Train Passenger)

Lawrence Weaver

(Self - Attendee, A.E. Staley Funeral)

Debra Bogle

(Self - President, United Way of Decatur and Mid-Illinois)

Jacob Deetz

(G.E. Chamberlain)

Richard E. McCoy

(Walter Franklin (voice))

Charles A. McCue

(A.E. Staley (voice))

Morris Birkhead

(Self - Electrical Engineer, A.E. Staley Manufacturing Co.)

Nancy Cole

(Emma Staley (voice))

Christian McWhirter

(Self - Historian, Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library & Museum)

Laura Jahr

(Self - Director of The Staley Museum)

Lisa Peters

(Self - Granddaughter & Grand Niece of Decatur Staley's Players)

Randy Garner

(Self - Great Nephew of A.E. Staley)

Natalie Beck

(Self - President & CEO, Community Foundation of Macon Georgia)

Jerry Johnson

(C.D. Lyon (voice))

Devin Leming

(Wabash Railroad Conductor)

Lesley Nicholson

(Housekeeper)

Michelle Tebrugge

(Train Passenger)

William Deetz

(Self - Great Grandson of G.E. Chamberlain)

Erik Strohl

(Self - National Baseball Hall of Fame)

Warren Dixon

(Self - Chairman Patterson Cottage Museum)

Claire Wright

(Train Passenger)

Richard Lindberg

(Self - Author & Historian)

Justin Conn

(Self - Regional Editor, Herald & Review)

Michael Pittman

(Self - Former Pitcher, Springfield Illinois Cardinals)

Mark Staley

(A.E. Staley)

Michael Krcil

(Wabash Railroad Secretary)

Duane Noland

(Self - Former Illionois Senator & Representative)

Patrick A. Foster

(Ed Scheiter (voice))

Sean Streaty

(Self - News Anchor WAND-TV)

James Groome

(Self - Former Pastor, Shiloh United Methodist Church)

Shelley Wooters

(Self - Daughter of A.E. Staley Manufacturing Co. Employee)

Mary Jo Brace

(Self - Granddaughter of A.E. Staley Manufacturing Co. Employee)

Mark Sorenson

(Self - Historian)

Dennis Rendleman

(Adolph Mueller (voice))

Julie Moore-Wolfe

(Self - Mayor, City of Decatur, IL)

Stephen Potter

(Staley Rail Engineer)

Thomas W. Hanks

(Direct descendant of Nancy Hanks Lincoln)

Robert Staley

(Self - Grandson of A.E. Staley)

Chad Richards

(Self - Board Member, Masonic Temple Decatur, IL)