The Temptations: Cast Rate: –☹️ Very Bad🙁 Bad😐 Average🙂 Good😃 Excellent🤩 Super! ★ Save Rating✔ Rating Saved! Notify me: –about new episodeabout new seasonabout end of season Subscribe✔ Subscription Saved! The Temptations Drama, Music 11/1/98 – 11/2/98 NBC United States GeneralEpisodesCastCharactersGallery Cast See full cast → Charles Malik Whitfield as Otis Williams Charles Malik Whitfield as Otis Williams D.B. Woodside as Melvin "Blue" Franklin Terron Brooks as Eddie "Cornbread" Kendricks D.B. Woodside as Melvin Franklin Terron Brooks as Eddie Kendricks Christian Payton as Paul Williams Leon as David Ruffin Alan Rosenberg as Shelly Berger Tina Lifford as Haze Jenifer Lewis as Mama Rose Gina Ravera as Josephine Obba Babatundé as Berry Gordy Erik Michael Tristan as Smokey Robinson J. August Richards as Richard Street Harold Surratt as Edgar Charles Ley as Dennis Edwards Vanessa Bell Calloway as Johnnie Mae Matthews