Roots
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Austin Stoker
Roxie Roker
Raymond St. Jacques
Hari Rhodes
John Schuck
Ben Vereen
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
The dramatization of Alex Haley's chronicle of his family history from his ancestors' life in tribal Africa of the eighteenth century to their emancipation in the post-Civil War South became an overnight phenomenon the subject of educational programs as well as newspaper editorials that attracted, as it progressed, the largest viewing audience ever for a dramatic TV program. It won an unprecedented thirty-seven Emmy Award nominations and was chosen the Outstanding Dramatic Series of the 1976-77 season, and won Emmys for Louis Gossett Jr. as Best Actor, Edward Asner as Best Supporting Actor and Olivia Cole as Best Supporting Actress, as well as for director David Greene (Part 1), writers Ernest Kinoy and William Blinn (Part 2), editor Neil Travis (Part 1), and Quincy Jones and Gerald Fried for their music score (Part 1).Other acting nominations include: John Amos, LeVar Burton (UCLA drama student in his dramatic acting debut), Ben Vereen, Leslie Uggams, Madge Sinclair, Moses Gunn, Robert Reed, Ralph Waite, Sandy Duncan and Cicely Tyson, plus Marvin Chomsky (Director, Part 3), John Erman (Director, Part 2), Gilbert Moses (Director, Part 6), Steven Larner (Cinematographer, Part 2), Joseph M. Wilcots (Cinematographer, Part 7), James Lee (Teleplay, Part 5), M. Charles Cohen (Teleplay, Part 8), Neil Travis (Editor, Part 2--also winner for Part 1), Peter Kirby (Editor, Part 3) and James T. Heckert (Editor, Part 8).
Cast
Austin Stoker
Roxie Roker
Raymond St. Jacques
Hari Rhodes
John Schuck
Ben Vereen
Doug Mcclure
Brad Davis
Louis Gossett
Paul Shenar
Levar Burton
Hilly Hicks
John Quade
Beverly Todd
Lynne Moody
Leslie Uggams
Olivia Cole
Cicely Tyson
Georg Stanford Brown
Gary Collins
Lloyd Bridges
Elma Veronda Jackson
Charles Cyphers
Lawrence-hilton Jacobs
John Amos
Maya Angelou
Richard Roundtree
Todd Bridges
Burl Ives
William Watson
Lee Jones-debroux
Thayer David
Carolyn Jones
Lane Binkley
Davis Roberts
Edward Asner
Ian Mcshane
Lynda Day George
Ralph Waite
Madge Sinclair
Ji-tu Cumbuka
Wally Taylor
Macdonald Carey
Sandy Duncan
Chuck Connors
Moses Gunn
Vic Morrow
Lorne Greene
Tanya Boyd
Robert Reed
O.j. Simpson
Scatman Crothers
Sally Kemp
Lillian Randolph
Renn Woods
Thalmus Rasulala
Richard Mckenzie
George Hamilton
Crew
Bernadine Anderson
William Blinn
M Charles Cohen
Scott Cunningham
Gerald Fried
Alex Haley
James T Heckert
Joseph R Jennings
Quincy Jones
Ernest Kinoy
Peter Kirby
Stevan Larner
Stevan Larner
James Lee
Stan Margulies
Jack Martell
Richard Portman
Jan Scott
Paul Stanhope
Neil Travis
Joseph M Wilcots
Joseph M Wilcots
Stan Winston
David L. Wolper
Film Details
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Miscellaneous Notes
Aired in United States January 23, 1977
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