Tail Gunner Joe
TV Movie
Drama
Senator Joseph McCarthy from Wisconsin accuses prominent people of Communist sympathies in order to give him a national power base when he later planned to run for President.
1977-02-06
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Cast
Director
Jud Taylor
Peter Boyle as Joseph McCarthy
John Forsythe as Paul Cunningham
Burgess Meredith as Joseph Welch
Patricia Neal as Margaret Chase Smith
Jean Stapleton as Mrs. DeCamp
Ned Beatty as Sylvester
Philip Abbott as Scott Lucas
Wallace Rooney as Speaker
Heather Menzies as Logan
Wesley Addy as Middleton
Karen Carlson as Jean Kerr
John Carradine as Wisconsin Farmer
Charles Cioffi as Logan's Boss
Diana Douglas as Sarah
Andrew Duggan as Dwight Eisenhower
Henry Jones as Armitage
Murray Matheson as Publisher
Allan Miller as Pete
Tim O'Connor as Librarian
Alan Oppenheimer as Eisenhower Publicist
Addison Powell as General George C. Marshall
Andrew Prine as Peter Parker McNair Gates
John Randolph as Gen. Lampkin
Allan Rich as Ray Jenkins
William Schallert as Gen. Zwicker
Simon Scott as Robert Ten Broeck Stevens
Robert F. Simon as Drew Pearson
George Wyner as Roy Cohn
Lin McCarthy as Sen. Stuart Symington
Kelly Jean Peters as Mrs. Sarah Gates
Robert Symonds as President Harry Truman
Charles Siebert as James Juliana
Sam Chew Jr. as Robert F. Kennedy
John Chappell as Sen. Karl Mundt
Herb Voland as Sen. Raymond Baldwin
Edward Anhalt as Sen. Herbert Lehman
Alan Hewitt as Dean Acheson
Howard Hesseman as Lt. Ted Cantwell
Jack Bannon as Eisenhower Aide
Charles Macaulay as Wm. Roberts
Morgan Upton as Clucas
Shirley O'Hara as Marie
George Petrie as Chas. Kraus