Director: Sidney Lumet

Writer: Paddy Chayefsky

Original Music Composed and Conducted by: Elliot Lawrence

Producer: Howard Gottfried

Keywords: Drama, Journalism, Corporate Crime, New York

Peter Finch is an anchorman on UBS, a fourth major network alongside NBC and the others; mentally, he is not quite holding it together. During the evening broadcast, he announces his impending suicide, to be broadcast live. UBS responds by giving him a variety-show forum for his incomprehensible ravings. But Finch continues to spin out of control. Won Oscars for Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress, and Best Screenplay; received nominations for 6 others including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, and Best Supporting Actor.

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Wesley Addy	Actor	4-Aug-1913	31-Dec-1996	What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
Ned Beatty	Actor	6-Jul-1937		Deliverance
Faye Dunaway	Actor	14-Jan-1941		Network
Robert Duvall	Actor	5-Jan-1931		Tom Hagen in The Godfather
Conchata Ferrell	Actor	28-Mar-1943		Head nurse Joan Thor on E/R
Peter Finch	Actor	28-Sep-1916	14-Jan-1977	Network
Darryl Hickman	Actor	28-Jul-1931		The Happy Years
William Holden	Actor	17-Apr-1918	16-Nov-1981	Stalag 17
Ken Kercheval	Actor	15-Jul-1935	21-Apr-2019	Cliff Barnes on Dallas
Lane Smith	Actor	29-Apr-1936	13-Jun-2005	The Final Days
Beatrice Straight	Actor	2-Aug-1914	7-Apr-2001	Network

CAST

Faye Dunaway	...   Diana Christensen
William Holden	...   Max Schumacher
Peter Finch	...   Howard Beale
Robert Duvall	...   Frank Hackett
Wesley Addy	...   Nelson Chaney
Ned Beatty	...   Arthur Jensen
Arthur Burghardt	...   Great Ahmed Kahn
Bill Burrows	...   TV Director
John Carpenter	...   George Bosch
Jordan Charney	...   Harry Hunter
Kathy Cronkite	...   Mary Ann Gifford
Ed Crowley	...   Joe Donnelly
Jerome Dempsey	...   Walter C. Amundsen
Conchata Ferrell	...   Barbara Schlesinger
Gene Gross	...   Milton K. Steinman
Stanley Grover	...   Jack Snowden
Cindy Grover	...   Caroline Schumacher
Darryl Hickman	...   Bill Herron
Mitchell Jason	...   Arthur Zangwill
Paul Jenkins	...   TV Stage Manager
Ken Kercheval	...   Merrill Grant
Kenneth Kimmins	...   Associate Producer
Lynn Klugman	...   TV Production Assistant
Carolyn Krigbaum	...   Max's Secretary
Zane Lasky	...   Audio Man
Michael Lipton	...   Tommy Pellegrino
Michael Lombard	...   Willie Stein
Pirie MacDonald	...   Herb Thackeray
Russ Petranto	...   TV Associate Director
Bernard Pollock	...   Lou
Roy Poole	...   Sam Haywood
William Prince	...   Edward George Ruddy
Sasha von Scherler	...   Helen Miggs
Lane Smith	...   Robert McDonough
Theodore Sorel	...   Giannini
Beatrice Straight	...   Louise Schumacher
Fred Stuthman	...   Mosaic Figure
Cameron Thomas	...   TV Technical Director
Marlene Warfield	...   Laureen Hobbs
Lydia Wilen	...   Hunter's Secretary
Lee Richardson	...   Narrator (voice)

REVIEWS

Have you seen this film? We would love to see your review. Submit your review for this film

Do you know something we don't?
Submit a correction or make a comment about this profile

Copyright ©2019 Soylent Communications