Manager, Tanninger's Nursing Home (as Dixie M. Taylor)
Pearl Coffey Chason
Nursing Home Attendant
Amelia Parker
Nursing Home Manager
David Welch
Green jr.
Richard Burch
Singing D.J. on Radio (voice) (uncredited)
Molly Vernon
Extra (uncredited)
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Trivia
The railroad viaduct where part of the chase scene took place is a former Houston Belt and Terminal rail line located west of Ardmore Street in the Riverside subdivision; this particular location was decommissioned (and demolished) in the early 1980s when State Highway 288 was under construction.
Brian McKay did a great deal of rewriting on the film without credit, and there was, as usual, a great deal of last-minute improvisation by director Robert Altman and the actors.
Shaft's Camaro Z28 changes from a Z28/Rally Sport (a.k.a. Z28/RS) to a base Z28 during the chase. A base 1970 Camaro Z28 has the parking lights below the headlights; the Z28/Rally Sport has the parking lights next to the headlights, as well as an open-aired grille.
In the scene where Brewster is supposed to have achieved independent flight while wearing birdlike apparatus, in a few places you can clearly see suspension cables attached to his bird costume.