Celebrity
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Michael Beck
Joseph Bottoms
Ben Masters
James Whitmore
Tess Harper
Karen Austin
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Synopsis
Three inseparable Fort Worth buddies from the high school class of 1950 find their destinies intertwined by a youthful crime relived 25 years later -- one (Marley) an ambitious writer who becomes a celebrated journalist (a semi-autobiographical character patterned after Thomas Thompson, the best-selling author of "Celebrity" who died shortly after its filming), one (Beck) a smooth-talking hustler who gains celebrity as a charismatic faith healer, one (Bottoms) a football All-American who goes on to Hollywood stardom -- in this six-and-one-half hour marathon dramatization of Thompson's novel. Claude Akins replaced Mickey Rooney as Beck's Uncle Bun, in whose cabin the crime occurs, and Ned Beatty replaced Glenn Ford as powerful defense attorney Otto Leo in the film's showdown trial. An Emmy Award nomination went to Philip Lathrop for his photography.
Cast
Michael Beck
Joseph Bottoms
Ben Masters
James Whitmore
Tess Harper
Karen Austin
Ned Beatty
Claude Akins
Dinah Manoff
Debbie Allen
Jennifer Warren
Hal Holbrook
Bonnie Bartlett
Rhonda Dotson
Jerry Hardin
Peter Nelson
Anne Haney
Stephen Pearlman
Kelli Maroney
River Phoenix
Benjamin Leighton Armstrong
Mary Armstrong
Nora Boland
J.p. Bumstead
Kathleen Coyne
Ted Demers
James Edgcomb
Howard Goodwin
Gordon Haight
Anne Heller-gutwillig
Jay Louden
Jack Lucarelli
John Mantinuzzi
Frederick Ponzlov
Howard Sherman
John Walsh
Lesa Weis
Charles Beall
Norman Bennett
Bill Burnett
Kathy Dean
Tony Frack
Nik Hagler
James Harrell
Gloria Hocking
Denise Holland
Dennis Holly
John Jackson
Harlan Jordan
Fred M. Lerner
Peyton Park
Bonnie Pemberton
Ivy Price
Rose Mari Rountree
Annabelle Weenick
Norma Young
Peter Nelson
Crew
Lynn Brooks
John Burke
Diane Cohoon
Jack Deshields
Zoltan Elek
James Galloway
William Hanley
Rosilyn Heller
Philip Lathrop
Dorothea Long
George R. Nelson
David H Newhouse
Phill Norman
Richard L O'connor
Leonard Rosenman
Eric Sears
Dione Taylor
Thomas Thompson
Thomas Thompson
Keith Wester
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Aired in United States February 12, 1984
Aired in United States February 13, 1984
Aired in United States February 14, 1984
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