Directors: Marvin J. Chomsky; John Erman; David Greene; Gilbert Moses

Writers: William Blinn; M. Charles Cohen; Ernest Kinoy; James Lee

Based on a book: Roots by Alex Haley

Keywords: Drama, Slavery, Ku Klux Klan, Controversial

Television miniseries.

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
John Amos	Actor	27-Dec-1939		James Evans on Good Times
Maya Angelou	Poet	4-Apr-1928		I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Ed Asner	Actor	15-Nov-1929		TV's Lou Grant
Lloyd Bridges	Actor	15-Jan-1913	10-Mar-1998	Airplane!
Todd Bridges	Actor	27-May-1965		Diff'rent Strokes
Georg Stanford Brown	Actor	24-Jun-1943		Officer Webster on The Rookies
LeVar Burton	Actor	16-Feb-1957		La Forge on Star Trek: TNG
Macdonald Carey	Actor	15-Mar-1913	21-Mar-1994	Tom Horton on Days of Our Lives
Gary Collins	Actor	30-Apr-1938		Host of The Home Show
Chuck Connors	Actor	10-Apr-1921	10-Nov-1992	The Rifleman
Scatman Crothers	Jazz Musician	23-May-1910	22-Nov-1986	Jazz musician and actor
Thayer David	Actor	4-Mar-1927	17-Jul-1978	Jergens in Rocky
Brad Davis	Actor	6-Nov-1949	8-Sep-1991	Midnight Express
Yvonne De Carlo	Actor	1-Sep-1922	8-Jan-2007	Lily on The Munsters
Sandy Duncan	Actor	20-Feb-1946		Wheat Thins pitchwoman
Richard Farnsworth	Actor	1-Sep-1920	6-Oct-2000	Comes a Horseman
Lynda Day George	Actor	11-Dec-1944		Lisa Casey on Mission: Impossible
Lou Gossett, Jr.	Actor	27-May-1936		Drill Sgt. in An Officer and a Gentleman
Lorne Greene	Actor	12-Feb-1915	11-Sep-1987	Actor, wildlife host, promoter of dogfood
Moses Gunn	Actor	2-Oct-1929	16-Dec-1993	Bumpy Jonas in Shaft
George Hamilton	Actor	12-Aug-1939		Well-tanned celebrity
Burl Ives	Singer	14-Jun-1909	14-Apr-1995	Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Brion James	Actor	20-Feb-1945	7-Aug-1999	Leon the replicant in Blade Runner
Carolyn Jones	Actor	28-Apr-1929	3-Aug-1983	Morticia on The Addams Family
Yaphet Kotto	Actor	15-Nov-1937		Homicide
Doug McClure	Actor	11-May-1935	5-Feb-1995	Trampas in The Virginian
Ian McShane	Actor	29-Sep-1942		Lovejoy
Vic Morrow	Actor	14-Feb-1929	23-Jul-1982	Sgt. Chip Saunders on Combat
Robert Reed	Actor	19-Oct-1932	12-May-1992	Mike (dad) on The Brady Bunch
Roxie Roker	Actor	28-Aug-1929	2-Dec-1995	Helen Willis on The Jeffersons
Richard Roundtree	Actor	9-Jul-1942		Black private dick, sex machine with all chicks
John Schuck	Actor	4-Feb-1940		Sgt. Enright on McMillan and Wife
Paul Shenar	Actor	12-Feb-1936	11-Oct-1989	The Secret of NIMH
O. J. Simpson	Football	9-Jul-1947		Searching tirelessly for the real killers
Madge Sinclair	Actor	28-Apr-1938	20-Dec-1995	Nurse Shoop on Trapper John
Raymond St. Jacques	Actor	1-Mar-1930	27-Aug-1990	Cotton Comes to Harlem
Ernest Thomas	Actor	26-Mar-1950		Raj on What's Happening
Cicely Tyson	Actor	19-Dec-1933		Sounder
Leslie Uggams	Actor	25-May-1943		Roots
Ben Vereen	Actor	10-Oct-1946		Jesus Christ Superstar
Ralph Waite	Actor	22-Jun-1928		John Walton, Sr. on The Waltons

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