The Blue and the Gray
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Robert Symonds
William Wellman Jr.
Fredric Cook
Julia Duffy
James Carroll Jordan
Diane Baker
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
This sweeping Civil War saga that took eight hours to unfold (over three nights), adapted from historian Bruce Catton's book, has an all-star cast winding its way through fact and fiction, covering the period from 1859 to the Lincoln assassination. The two leads are Stacy Keach as the fictional Jonas Steele, a secret government agent who reports directly to President Lincoln (Gregory Peck in his television acting debut), and John Hammond as the real-life Civil War newspaper artist, John Geyster. Among the guest cast are Geraldine Page and Rip Torn, working together (though not in the same scenes) in the same film for the first time; Warren Oates in his final TV appearance (he had died at 53 in April, 1982), and Sterling Hayden (like Peck, making his TV acting debut) playing abolitionist John Brown.
The production garnered four Emmy Award nominations: for photography (part 3), music (part 2), editing (part 1), and sound editing (part 1).
Cast
Robert Symonds
William Wellman Jr.
Fredric Cook
Julia Duffy
James Carroll Jordan
Diane Baker
Lloyd Bridges
David Rounds
George Petrie
Robert Vaughn
Rip Torn
Royce D Applegate
David W Harper
Dan Shor
Janice Carroll
Geraldine Page
Gerald S. O'loughlin
Gregg Henry
Matthew Tobin
Gregg Palmer
John Vernon
Walter Olkewicz
Paul Benedict
Brian Kerwin
Warren Oates
David Doyle
Duncan Regehr
Noble Willingham
Fred Stuthman
Michael Horton
John Hammond
Steve Nevil
Walter Brooke
William Brian Curran
Robin Gammell
William Lucking
Colleen Dewhurst
Cooper Huckabee
Charles Napier
Peter Von Zerneck
Alex Harvey
Jordan Rhodes
Rory Calhoun
Sterling Hayden
Paul Winfield
Kathleen Beller
Christopher Stone
Len Wayland
Maggie Wellman
Warwick Sims
Julius Harris
John Dennis Johnston
Veronica Redd
Gregory Peck
Penny Peyser
Bruce Abbott
Crew
Ross Bellah
Hugh Benson
Martin Bolger
Bruce Broughton
Billy Burton
Bruce Catton
Fred A Chulack
Zoltan Elek
Al Francis
Bud Friedgen
Jan Gosnell
Russ Hessey
Grady Hunt
Ian Mclellan Hunter
Gary A. Lee
John Leekley
Leo Lotito
Joseph Melody
Tom Miller
Lou Reda
Harry Thomason
Russ Tinsley
Film Details
Technical Specs
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Trivia
Miscellaneous Notes
Aired in United States November 14, 1982
Aired in United States November 16, 1982
Aired in United States November 17, 1982
Released in United States on Video May 11, 1994
Released in United States on Video September 19, 1990
Formerly distributed by RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video.
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