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Captains and the Kings (1976)

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Release Date: Sep 30, 1976 Wide

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One of four dramatic miniseries carried by NBC under the blanket title Best Sellers, Captains and the Kings was adapted from a novel by Taylor Caldwell. Covering a time span from 1857 to 1912, this was the saga of the Irish-immigrant Armagh clan, with emphasis on the rags-to-riches career of Joseph Armagh (Richard Jordan). Achieving fame and prominence (if not full-fledged social acceptance) through a Byzantine series of investments in the oil industry, the elder Armagh was obsessed with the

Unrated, 9 hr.

Drama, Television, Classics

Directed By: Allen Reisner , Douglas Heyes

In Theaters: Sep 30, 1976 Wide

On DVD: Jan 13, 2009

Cast

Sian Barbara Allen
Cara Leslie
Patty Duke
Bernadette Hennessey Ar...
Norman Bartold
Bernard Behrens
Ray Bolger
R. J. Squibbs
Philip Bourneuf
Father Scanlon
Neville Brand
O'Herlihy
Blair Brown
Elizabeth Healey
William Bryant
John Carradine
Father Hale
Elizabeth Cheshire
Young Bernadette
Steve Coit
William McKinley
Beverly D'Angelo
Miss Emmy
Severn Darden
Plover
Lee de Broux
Theodore Roosevelt
John DeLancie
Peter Donat
Clair Montrose
Robert Donner
Wounded Texan
Johnny Doran
Young Joseph
Charles Durning
Ed Healey
Anne Dusenberry
Ann-Marie
Henry Fonda
Sen. Enfield Bassett
George Gaynes
Orestes Bradley
Ted Gehring
Stefan Gierasch
Gannon
Tracey Gold
Rosemary Armagh
Duane Grey
Richard Herd
Celeste Holm
Sister Angela
David Huffman
Sean Armagh
Burl Ives
"Old Syrup"
Clifton James
Gov. Hackett
Harvey Jason
Haroun "Harry" Zieff
Joe Kapp
Strickland
Linda Kelsey
Peg
Perry King
Rory Armagh
Sally Kirkland
Aggie
Terry Kiser
Courtney Wickersham
Martin Kove
Connie Kreski
PearlGray
Patrick Laborteaux
Young Rory
Todd Martin
Sean McClory
Boland
Boyd 'Red' Morgan
Barbara Morrison
Kermit Murdock
James Spaulding
Barbara Parkins
Martinique
Joanna Pettet
Katherine Hennessey
William Prince
Jay Regan
Bill Quinn
Dr. Harris Herbert
Ford Rainey
Abraham Lincoln
Pernell Roberts
Braithwaite
Roger Robinson
Cpl. Lincoln Douglas
Cynthia Sikes
Claudia Desmond Armagh
Ann Sothern
Mrs. Finch
Jenny Sullivan
Honora Houlihan
Ken Swofford
Capt. Muldoon
Georgio Tozzi
Foreign Gentleman
Robert Vaughn
Charles Desmond
Mills Watson
Preston
Byron Webster
William Jennings Bryan
Douglas Heyes
Kevin Armagh
John Houseman
Judge Newell Chisholm
Richard Jordan
Joseph Armagh
Richard Matheson
James Garfield
Vic Morrow
Tom Hennessey
Eldon Quick
James O'Connell
Jane Seymour
Marjorie Chisholm
Katherine Crawford
Moira Armagh
William Gordon
Kristopher Marquis
Sean (as a child)
Missy Gold
Mary Armagh (as a child...
John Herbsleb
Young Courtney

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The continuity is a little choppy but what an amazing cast! One like this could most likely never be assembled today. Old time movie stars, current stars and up and comers all mixed together to form a mosaic of a driven and rather despicable man's journey though his life and our history.

January 16, 2010

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