Guyana Tragedy: Story of Jim Jones
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Then-relatively unknown Powers Boothe's dynamic performance as the charismatic self-styled preacher who led the settlers of Jonestown, Guyana, to mass suicide in 1978, won him the Emmy Award as Outstanding Actor. His appearance at the presentation ceremony as the only performer to show up (an actors' strike caused an almost total boycott of the Emmy presentations that year) brought him some headline-making publicity, although he admitted in his acceptance speech that he might be committing professional suicide by being there. The two-part, four-hour film, which also received nominations as Outstanding Drama Special, for director William A. Graham and the sound mixing crew, subsequently was cut to a single-part three-hour movie.
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Randy Quaid
Joe Dorsey
Ralph Pace
Rita Byrd
Terry Browning
William Dozier
Martha Knighton
Madge Sinclair
Joel Godard
Paul Wallace
Savino Maneri
Frank Konigsberg
Bernice Ramsey
Diana Scarwid
Brenda Vaccaro
Charlie Anderson
Georgia Allen
Vivian Edwards
Peter Moldonado
Michael C Gwynne
Mildred Brown
Guy Del Russo
Tony Foster
Pedro Ilerio
Levar Burton
Irene Cara
Les Hatfield
Colleen Dewhurst
Veronica Cartwright
Steve Grand
Richard Reiner
Meg Brush
Danny Nelson
Ed Lauter
Charles Franzen
Dolores Robinson
Buzzy Hill
Bill Coyne
Ned Beatty
Walter M Elder
Powers Boothe
Ron O'neal
Luther Mclaughlin
Henry Lide
Meg Foster
James Earl Jones
Dimitra Arliss
Rosalind Cash
Roy Tatum
Albert Hall
David Raynr
Brad Dourif
Tony King
Linda Haynes
Bernardine Mitchell
Diane Ladd
Annie Feliciana
Benji Wilhoite
Clifton James
Alvin Pealer
John Dukakis
Crew
Elmer Bernstein
David E Campbell
Reverend James Cleveland
Tony Dezarraga
Walter Scott Herndon
Gil Hubbs
Frank Konigsberg
Charles A Krause
Sam Manners
Jacques Nosco
Frank E Novak
Bob Pettis
John T Reitz
Aaron Stell
Ernest Tidyman
Ernest Tidyman
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Aired in United States April 15, 1980
Aired in United States April 16, 1980
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