The Defender (Studio One)
Drama
TV Movie
The pilot for the television series, "The Defenders." The story of Walter and Kenneth Pearson, a father-and-son legal team. Broadcast as two segments of "Studio One," the story relates how the Pearsons defend a young man accused of killing a woman during a robbery attempt.
1957-02-25
en
Cast
Director
Robert Mulligan
Ralph Bellamy as Walter Preston
Martin Balsam as Francis Toohey
Steve McQueen as Joseph Gordon
Vivian Nathan as Mrs. Gordon
William Shatner as Kenneth Preston
Ian Wolfe as Judge Marsala
David J. Stewart as Dr. Victor Wallach
Russell Hardie as First Guard
Iggie Wolfington as Court Clerk
Eileen Ryan as Betsy Fuller
Milton Selzer as 2nd Guard
Rudy Bond as Peter D'Agostino
Dolores Sutton as Norma Lane
Rosetta LeNoire as Mary Ellen Bailey
John McGovern as Dr. Horace Bell
Michael Higgs as Sergeant James Sheeley
Betty Furness as Self / Commercial Spokeswoman
Irene Kane as Courtroom Observer
Florence Stanley as Courtroom Spectator
Ed Asner as Juror (uncredited)
Joby Baker as Trial Spectator (uncredited)
Robert Morris as Anthony Carmonada (uncredited)