Roots: The Next Generations
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Ernest Kinoy
Don Ross
John Hancock
Kene Holliday
Kristoff St John
Irene Cara
Film Details
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Synopsis
The unparalleled success of "Roots" in 1977 prompted this continuation of Alex Haley's saga, beginning with the events where its predecessor ended in 1882 and bringing the story to the present with James Earl Jones playing Haley and Marlon Brando as American Nazi leader George Lincoln Rockwell, who agreed to an interview in the 1960s with Haley for "Playboy." Brando won an Emmy (as Outstanding Supporting Actor) for his ten-minute cameo part, his television acting debut. "Roots: The Next Generations" covered fourteen television hours, two more than its predecessor, with only Georg Stanford Brown and Lynne Moody (as Tom Harvey and his wife Irene, Alex Haley's great-great-grandparents) continuing the roles they began in "Roots." Brown also directed several hours of the sequel.Like its predecessor, "Roots: The Next Generations" was an Emmy Award winner as Outstanding Limited Series, with other nominations also going to Ruby Dee as Outstanding Supporting actress, to Al Freeman Jr. and Paul Winfield as Outstanding Supporting Actor (in competition with Brando) to writer Ernest Kinoy (for Episode 1) and to the makeup experts (for Episode 3).
Director
Ernest Kinoy
Cast
Don Ross
John Hancock
Kene Holliday
Kristoff St John
Irene Cara
Rosey Grier
Wendell Wright
Michael Morgan
John Rubinstein
Lynn Hamilton
Royce Wallace
Jane Rose
J A Preston
Fred Stuthman
Rafer Johnson
Norman Fell
Henry Fonda
Slim Gaillard
Paul Winfield
Pam Grier
Dina Merrill
Timothy Scott
Abdoulaye N'gom
Jason Wingreen
Ruby Dee
Zaeks Mokae
Ted Gehring
Richard Thomas
Pat Mcnamara
Ebou Magna
Logan Ramsey
Lynne Moody
Maidie Norman
Joel Fluellen
James Keane
Philip Michael Thomas
Bobby Short
Stan Shaw
Charles Weldon
Greg Morris
Beah Richards
Earl Billings
Debbie Allen
Marc Singer
Lee Chamberlin
Fay Hauser
Roger E Mosley
Paul Koslo
Howard E Rollins
James Broderick
Telma Hopkins
Patrick J Cronin
Bill Henderson
William Mims
W. K. Stratton
Dennis Fimple
John Carter
Frederick Combs
Andy Griffith
Louise Heath
Ticker Thompson
Bever-leigh Banfield
James Ray
Michael Constantine
Stefan Crutchfield
Jerry Hardin
James Daly
Robert Culp
George Voskovec
Mary Betten
Fred Pinkard
Les Lannom
Bernie Casey
Albert Hall
Claudia Mcneil
Georg Stanford Brown
Charlie Robinson
Michael Alldredge
Marlon Brando
Albert Reed
Damon Evans
Charles Lampkin
Dorian Harewood
Gerald S. O'loughlin
Della Reese
Al Freeman Jr.
Barbara Barrie
Gerald Mcraney
Johnny Sekka
Diana Douglas
Brian Stokes Mitchell
Albert Popwell
Kathleen Doyle
Lou Frizzel
James Earl Jones
Ernie Hudson
Hal Williams
Linda Hopkins
Milt Kogan
Damu King
Ossie Davis
Percy Rodrigues
Don Keefer
Debbi Morgan
Avon Long
Mel Stewart
Olivia De Havilland
Bruce French
Cynthia Sye
Harry Morgan
Diahann Carroll
Brock Peters
Carmen Mcrae
Crew
Willie Burton
Ken Chase
Leonard Chase
Tom Dawson
Gerald Fried
Sydney A Glass
Alex Haley
Russ Hessey
Ernest Kinoy
Robert Mackichan
Stan Margulies
John Mcgreevey
Thad Mumford
Robbe Roberts
David Saxon
Neil Travis
William Webb
John W. Wheeler
Joseph M Wilcots
Joseph M Wilcots
Dan Wilcox
David L. Wolper
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