Tail Gunner Joe

Directed by Jud Taylor
Not Rated
1977    2h 25mDrama, Biography,
6.7
A dramatization of the life of Joe McCarthy, the alcoholic senator from Wisconsin whose tactics of accusing prominent people of Communist sympathies were initially designed to give him a national power base when he later planned to run for President.

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Cast of Tail Gunner Joe

  • Peter BoyleJoseph McCarthy
  • John ForsythePaul Cunningham
  • Burgess MeredithJoseph Welch
  • Patricia NealMargaret Chase Smith
  • Jean StapletonMrs. DeCamp
  • Ned BeattySylvester
  • Philip AbbottScott Lucas
  • Wallace RooneySpeaker
  • Heather MenziesLogan
  • Wesley AddyMiddleton
  • Karen CarlsonJean Kerr
  • John CarradineWisconsin Farmer
  • Charles CioffiLogan's Boss
  • Diana DouglasSarah
  • Andrew DugganDwight Eisenhower
  • Henry JonesArmitage
  • Murray MathesonPublisher
  • Allan MillerPete
  • Tim O'ConnorLibrarian
  • Alan OppenheimerEisenhower Publicist
  • Addison PowellGeneral George C. Marshall
  • Andrew PrinePeter Parker McNair Gates
  • John RandolphGen. Lampkin
  • Allan RichRay Jenkins
  • William SchallertGen. Zwicker
  • Simon ScottRobert Ten Broeck Stevens
  • Robert F. SimonDrew Pearson
  • George WynerRoy Cohn
  • Lin McCarthySen. Stuart Symington
  • Kelly Jean PetersMrs. Sarah Gates
  • Robert SymondsPresident Harry Truman
  • Charles SiebertJames Juliana
  • Sam Chew Jr.Robert F. Kennedy
  • John ChappellSen. Karl Mundt
  • Herb VolandSen. Raymond Baldwin
  • Edward AnhaltSen. Herbert Lehman
  • Alan HewittDean Acheson
  • Howard HessemanLt. Ted Cantwell
  • Jack BannonEisenhower Aide
  • Charles MacaulayWm. Roberts
  • Richard M. DixonSen. Richard M. Nixon
  • Morgan UptonClucas
  • Shirley O'HaraMarie
  • George PetrieChas. Kraus

 

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