Blind Ambition
War & Politics
Drama
HE WANTED OFFICE, THEY WANTED MORE...
The Watergate crisis as viewed by John Dean and his wife Maureen, based on their personal accounts -- his best-seller, her book on how it affected their marriage -- and distilled into an eight-hour drama with all of the political figures of the day parading by as Dean relates his story to his attorney when his world, based on blind ambition, begins crashing down on him.
1979-05-20
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Cast
Director
George Schaefer
Martin Sheen as John Dean
Theresa Russell as Maureeen Dean
Michael Callan as Charles Colson
Lonny Chapman as L. Patrick Gray
William Daniels as G. Gordon Liddy
Clifford David as Fred Fielding
Ed Flanders as Charles Shaffer
Fred Grandy as Donald Segretti
Christopher Guest as Jeb Stuart Magruder
Graham Jarvis as John Ehrlichman
Gerald S. O'Loughlin as John J. 'Jack' Caufield
Alan Oppenheimer as George Simonson
Lawrence Pressman as H.R. Haldeman
John Randolph as John Mitchell
Peter Mark Richman as Robert Mardian
William Schallert as Herbert Kalmbach
James Sloyan as Ronald Ziegler
Rip Torn as Richard M. Nixon
William Windom as Richard Kleindienst
Patrick Collins as Gordon Strachan
Kip Niven as Egil Krogh
Garn Stephens as Carol Thompson
Logan Ramsey as J. Edgar Hoover
James Greene as E. Howard Hunt
Mitzi Hoag as May-Chapin's Secretary
Darrell Zwerling as Frederick LaRue
Cathleen Cordell as Pat Nixon
Terence McGovern as Jack Garfield
Jenny O'Hara as Liz Garfield
Al Checco as Judge John Sirica
Rosemary DeCamp as Maureen Dean's Mother
David Sheiner as Sam Dash
Ross Bickell as Tom Huston
Stuart Gillard as Larry Higby
Harry Basch as Gen. Walters