The Atlanta Child Murders
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Anthony Thompkins
Barbara Sammeth
Lynne Moody
Paul Benjamin
John Petlock
Don Hood
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
A network cause-celebre on its initial showing because of presumed "liberties" taken with the facts, this five-hour, two-part docudrama was based on the highly charged Wayne Williams case in Atlanta, Georgia -- he was a self-styled black music promoter who was convicted in 1982 of the murder of two adults following a pattern of child killings in Atlanta's black community between 1979 and 1981. Both Rip Torn and Martin Sheen won Emmy Award nominations as Outstanding Supporting Actor (Sheen refused his nomination as he had for "That Certain Summer" a dozen years before) for their performances as, respectively, the politically ambitious district attorney and the former cop who had resigned from the force and went on to aid the victims' families. An Emmy nomination also went to the film's hairstylist.
Cast
Anthony Thompkins
Barbara Sammeth
Lynne Moody
Paul Benjamin
John Petlock
Don Hood
Christopher Allport
Veronica Redd
Erica Yohn
Rip Torn
Maurice Sneed
Morgan Freeman
John Devlin
Stephen Godwin
Kristoff St John
Beau Billingslea
Royce Wallace
Cch Pounder
Martin Sheen
Robert S Telford
Lisa Blake Richards
Tina Andrews
Michael Alldredge
Alley Mills
Jack Radar
Essex Smith
Kenneth Kimmins
John Wesley
Marilyn Coleman
Henry Sanders
Barbara Harris
Lawrence Lott
John Lafayette
Jim Antonio
Olga Talyn
Christopher Mahar
Percy Rodrigues
Steve James
Myrna White
Harold Sylvester
William Allen Young
Ed Cambridge
Gary Graham
Gloria Foster
Felton Perry
Noble Willingham
James Earl Jones
Zero Hubbard
Noel Conlon
Ernest Harden
Ruby Dee
Calvin Levels
Bill Paxton
Mark Arnold
Andrew Robinson
Jason Robards Jr.
Christopher St. John
Guy Boyd
J W Smith
Charles Weldon
Clarence Floyd
Ellen Tobie
Crew
Rick Alexander
Camille Bell
Else Blangsted
Le Dawson
Gordon Day
David Alan Dittmar
D Scott Easton
Arlene Encell
Margaret E. Fannin
William R. Finnegan
Terri Fricon
Billy Goldenberg
Vince Gutierrez
Earle Herdan
Martin Hornstein
William Hoy
James Hulsey
Howard Jensen
Victor J Kemper
Verne Langdon
Abby Mann
Abby Mann
Sandra Middleton
Matthew Nodella
Anthony Palmieri
Don Pike
Sheldon Pinchuk
Carl Pingitore
Steven Potter
Gerald Rafshoon
Bill Randall
Bill Randall
Don Remacle
Donna Roberts-orme
Bruce Scott
Sig Tinglof
Neil Travis
Tom Waits
Howard Wilmarth
William Wistrom
Film Details
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Miscellaneous Notes
Aired in United States February 10, 1985
Aired in United States February 12, 1985
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