To Kill a Cop
Brief Synopsis
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A police action drama dealing with a maverick chief of detectives with two cop killings and a rash of bank robberies on his hands who is forced to wage war against a back-stabbing police commissioner with political ambitions and a black revolutionary leader plotting a police massacre. Emmy Award nom
Cast & Crew
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Sylvester Words
Maxwell Glanville
Scott Brady
James Vickery
Alan Oppenheimer
Rosey Grier
Film Details
Genre
Action
Drama
Release Date
1978
Technical Specs
Duration
2h
Synopsis
A police action drama dealing with a maverick chief of detectives with two cop killings and a rash of bank robberies on his hands who is forced to wage war against a back-stabbing police commissioner with political ambitions and a black revolutionary leader plotting a police massacre. Emmy Award nominations went to editors Donald R. Rode and Harry Kaye. Joe Don Baker reprised his role in the series "Eischied" that began in the fall of 1979.
Cast
Sylvester Words
Maxwell Glanville
Scott Brady
James Vickery
Alan Oppenheimer
Rosey Grier
Alan Fudge
Borah Silver
Arthur Rosenberg
Milton Selzer
Christine Belford
David Toma
Walter Mathews
Julius Harris
Eddie Egan
Randy Jurgensen
Jim Veres
Fil Formicola
Justin Lord
Hetti Lynne Huntes
Vernon Weddle
Lou Tiaro
Rochelle Williams
Patrick O'neal
Ric Mancini
Maurice Kowelski
Robert Hooks
Chip Mcallister
Leon Issacs
Nathan George
Heshimu Cumbuka
Sonny Grosso
Rosalind Miles
Louis Gossett
Bill Deiz
Kim Delgado
Joe Cirillo
Eartha Kitt
George Dicenzo
Gene Woodbury
Terrence Mcnally
James Purcell
Joe Don Baker
Al White
Rod Colbin
Allen Price
Joyce Van Patten
Ken Swofford
Joe Maross
Desi Arnaz
Diana Muldaur
Crew
Ross Bellah
Art Director
James H. Brown
Producer
Robert Daley
Source Material (From Novel)
Ed Drohan
Special Effects
David Gerber
Executive Producer
Sonny Grosso
Technical Advisor
Lee Holdridge
Music
Chuck House
Makeup
Grady Hunt
Costumes
Harry Kaye
Editor
Josee Nachbaur
Hair
Stanley Neufeld
Assistant
Ward Preston
Art Director
Gayne Rescher
Director Of Photography
Donald R Rode
Editor
Ernest Tidyman
Screenplay
Mike Tromer
Sound
Film Details
Genre
Action
Drama
Release Date
1978
Technical Specs
Duration
2h
Quotes
Trivia
Miscellaneous Notes
Aired in United States April 10, 1978
Aired in United States April 11, 1978
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See also "Eischied" for information on the subsequent series.
