William Devane
William Joseph Devane (born September 5, 1937) is an American film, television and theater actor, known for his role as Greg Sumner on the primetime soap opera Knots Landing and as James Heller on the Fox serial drama 24, the role he reprised in Live Another Day. He is also known for his supporting roles in films such as McCabe & Mrs. Miller, Family Plot), Marathon Man, Rolling Thunder and Space Cowboys. Devane began his acting career with the New York Shakespeare Festival where he performed in 15 plays. In 1966, Devane portrayed Robert F. Kennedy in the Off-Broadway spoof MacBird. He gained acclaim for his role as President John F. Kennedy in a television docudrama about the Cuban Missile Crisis, The Missiles of October, and again when he played blacklisted radio personality John Henry Faulk in the Emmy Award-winning TV movie Fear on Trial. He is widely known for his ten years as the ambitious and hardnosed politician-turned-corporate titan Greg Sumner on Knots Landing. In 1994, Devane appeared as Al Capone in Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman in an episode entitled "That Old Gang of Mine". He also had a recurring role on the CBS show Early Edition as the lead character's father. Devane appeared in the films McCabe & Mrs. Miller; Lady Liberty; Family Plot; Marathon Man; Rolling Thunder; Yanks; Testament; Timestalkers; Forgotten Sins; Exception to the Rule; Payback; Hollow Man and Space Cowboys. Devane has played members of the Presidential Cabinet on two evening dramas. In 2004, on The West Wing, he guest-starred as the Secretary of State and potential Vice-Presidential nominee. Devane appeared in several scenes with Martin Sheen; they also appeared together as President John F. Kennedy and his brother Robert, respectively, 30 years earlier in The Missiles of October. In 2005, he joined the cast of 24 as Secretary of Defense James Heller for seasons 4, 5 and 6.
Interstellar
as WilliamsThe adventures of a group of explorers who make use of a newly discovered wormhole to surpass...
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Following the death of District Attorney Harvey Dent, Batman assumes responsibility for Dent's...
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Hollow Man
as Dr. KramerCocky researcher Sebastian Caine is working on a project to make living creatures invisible....
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With friends like these, who needs enemies? That's the question bad guy Porter is left asking...
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Stargate: Continuum
as President Henry HayesBa'al travels back in time and prevents the Stargate program from being started. SG-1 must...
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Marathon Man
as JanewayA graduate student and obsessive runner in New York is drawn into a mysterious plot involving...
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Space Cowboys
as Eugene DavisFrank Corvin, ‘Hawk’ Hawkins, Jerry O'Neill and ‘Tank’ Sullivan were hotdog members of Project...
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McCabe & Mrs. Miller
as The LawyerA gambler and a prostitute become business partners in a remote Old West mining town, and their...
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Family Plot
as Arthur AdamsonSpiritualist Blanche Tyler and her cab-driving boyfriend encounter a pair of serial kidnappers...
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Jesse Stone: Lost in Paradise
as Dr. DixPolice Chief Jesse Stone now presides over the quiet, seaside village of Paradise,...
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Jesse Stone: Death in Paradise
as Dr. DixWhen Jesse Stone looks into the murder of a teen-age girl whose body is found floating in a...
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Jesse Stone: No Remorse
as Dr. DixPolice Chief Jesse Stone, who was suspended by the Paradise, Mass. Town Council, begins...
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The River Why
as Dutch HinesA young man abandons his family for a solitary life of fly-fishing. His goal was to find his own...
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Monte Walsh
as Cal BrennanMonte Walsh and Chet Rollins are long-time cowhands, working whatever ranch work comes their...
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Truth
as Gen. Hodges (voice) (uncredited)As a renowned producer and close associate of Dan Rather, Mary Mapes believes she’s broken the...
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Jesse Stone: Benefit of the Doubt
as Dr. DixJesse finds himself struggling to get his job back as the Paradise police chief, and he is...
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Jesse Stone: Thin Ice
as Dr. DixJesse Stone and Captain Healy are shot during an unauthorized stake-out in Boston. Meanwhile, a...
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Rolling Thunder
as Major Charles RaneA Vietnam veteran, Charles Rane, returns home after years in a POW camp and is treated as a...
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Testament
as Tom WetherlyIt is just another day in the small town of Hamlin until something disastrous happens. Suddenly,...
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Yanks
as JohnDuring WWII, the United States set up army bases in Great Britain as part of the war effort....
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Jesse Stone: Sea Change
as Dr. DixPolice Chief Jesse Stone's relationship with his ex-wife worsens, and he fears he's relapsing...
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50 to 1
as Leonard Doc BlachA misfit group of New Mexico cowboys find themselves on the journey of a lifetime when they...
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The Badge
as The JudgeA sheriff begins an investigation into the death of a local transsexual after hearing that high...
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Jesse Stone: Innocents Lost
as Dr. DixJesse investigates the suspicious death of a young friend while the police force deals with the...
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Leprechaun's Revenge
as Pop O'HaraAn evil leprechaun who has been imprisoned within the roots of a majestic old oak tree, is...
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The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training
as Mike LeakA troubled, rebellious teen drives his rambunctious baseball team out to Houston where they play...
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Lady Liberty
as Jock FennerAn Italian woman faces challenges at JFK Airport when Customs confiscates the mortadella sausage...
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Bad Turn Worse
as Big RedThree teenage friends get in way over their head when they cross a down-home crime syndicate....
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Honky Tonk Freeway
as Mayor Kirby T. CaloTiclaw, a small town in Florida, has only one attraction: a safari park. The government...
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Timestalkers
as Scott McKenzieHistory professor Scott McKenzie makes an anachronistic discovery in a photograph from the Old...
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Report to the Commissioner
as Asst. D.A. JacksonPolice officer Patty Butler, alias "Chicklet," is the live-in girlfriend of Thomas 'Stick'...
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A Christmas Visitor
as George BoyajianThe Boyajian family learned of 18-year-old John's death in the Persian Gulf War on Christmas Eve...
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Night Watch
as Nick CaldwellUN agents Mike Graham and Sabrina Carver are sent by their director Nick Caldwell to investigate...
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Freefall: Flight 174
as Capt. Bob PearsonTrue story of a brand-new Canadian airliner running out of fuel in-flight and forced to glide to...
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Who could have deliberately released a rare and deadly African plague that is now spreading...
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Vital Signs
as Dr. ChathamAs they enter their third year of medical school, a group of young students must prepare to...
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The Dark
as Roy Warner, aka Steve DupreeAt night the Mangler stalks the streets of Los Angeles, killing and mutilating random victims....
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Race to Space
as Roger ThornhillIn the 1960s a young woman works at NASA as an animal trainer responsible for the chimpanzee who...
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Prophet of Evil: The Ervil LeBaron Story
as Daniel 'Dan' FieldsThe take-down of an infamous leader of a small polygamous Mormon fundamentalist group, who...
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The Missiles of October
as President John F. KennedyBased in part on Robert F. Kennedy's book, "Thirteen Days," this film profiles the Kennedy...
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The Pursuit of Happiness
as PilotWilliam Popper is the son of a stockbroker and is thoroughly disenchanted with "the system." So...
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Poor White Trash
as Ron LakeMike and Lenny are two buddies who dream of getting out of the trailer park. Out of desperation...
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Obsessed
as Ed BledsoeLorie Brindel works at an insurance company and falls in love with one of her clients, the much...
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The Kane Files: Life of Trial
as ThompsonScott Kane (Drew Fuller), a man with a checkered past is trying to live a clean life. When his...
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Threat of Exposure
as Col. WeldonA man poses as a hypnotherapist's patient to find the truth about his missing brother.
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Good Morning, Killer
as Everett Morgan GrayFollows FBI Special Agent Ana Gray as she hunts for a kidnapper. As Ana develops a rapport with...
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Murder C.O.D.
as Alex BrandtSomeone is killing people in Portland, Oregon, and later blackmails the relatives, who profit...
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Payback: Straight Up
as Fred CarterPorter is shot by his wife and best friend and is left to die. When he survives he plots revenge.
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Lady in Waiting
as Lt. BarrettA divorced cop investigating the sadistic murders of high-class prostitutes discovers that the...
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Exception to the Rule
as Lawrence KellermanAn aggressive woman tries to blackmail a married gem trader who had an affair with her.
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Judgment: The Court Martial of the Tiger of Malaya — General Yamashita
as uncreditedDramatization of the trial of General Yamashita.
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The Man Who Used to Be Me
as Older Sam RyanA burned-out ex-cop travels back in time and teams up with his younger self to catch his...
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Nightmare in Columbia County
as Sheriff Jim MettsThe recounting of a terrible crime that wracked a family and galvanized police in South Carolina...
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Red Flag: The Ultimate Game
as Maj. Phil ClarkTwo fighter pilots, Phil Clark and Jay Rivers, who flew together in Vietnam are assigned to the...
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My Old Man's Place
as Jimmy PilgrimTwo soldiers return from Vietnam with serious PTSD. They decide to go for a couple of days to a...
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For the Love of Nancy
as TomThe parents of an anorexic woman fight to save her life.
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Miracle on the Mountain: The Kincaid Family Story
as Tom KincaidA staunch professional executive and his wife coerce their rebellious teens and their older...
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The Preppie Murder
as Jack LitmanThis is the story of a young woman who was found dead. Now the police investigate, and evidence...
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The President's Child
as Elliot McSwainJames Guthrie is a candidate for the presidency of the United States. Eight years ago he fell in...
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Fear on Trial
as John Henry FaulkThe story of John Henry Faulk, a radio/TV personality of the 1950s, who was blacklisted during...
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Rubdown
as Harry OrwitzA rich man offers his masseur, a former baseball player with damaged knees, $50,000 to have an...
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In the Country
as uncreditedDuring the Vietnam War, a young revolutionary, isolated with his lover in a country house,...
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The Fall
as judge Stanley SeebanTwo brothers are forced to confront a terrible crime that was hidden in their past.
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The Other Victim
as Harry LangfordAfter his wife is raped, a man struggles to find ways to express the anger and helplessness...
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Jane Doe
as William QuinnA young amnesiac who was left for dead following a brutal assault is now being stalked by her...
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With Intent to Kill
as Aaron CharneyA high school football hero Bo Reinecker tries to piece together the events leading up to murder...
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Deceit
as Grove McCarthyEllen's life is turned upside down after her wealthy hubby vanishes at sea. Everyone close to...
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Chips, the War Dog
as Col. CharnleyIn this made-for-tv movie, misfits Danny Stauffer and Chips (a chicken-chasing German shepherd)...
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Hadley's Rebellion
as Coach BallAfter he transfers to a new school, Hadley is victimized and ostracized by his too-cool...
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Flag of My Father
as JakeServing her country is an honour for Judith (GiGi Erneta: Friday NIght Lights, Vernonica Mars),...
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The Absolute Truth
as Sen. Emmett HunterA television newswoman (Seymour) must betray a friend in order to expose a presidential...
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Red Alert
as Frank BrolenA computer at a nuclear power plant malfunctions and receives erroneous information of a...
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The Irish Whiskey Rebellion
as LT. AshleyAn Irish radical turns East Coast bootlegger during Prohibition.
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Plotting 'Family Plot'
as SelfDocumentary about the making of Alfred Hitchcock's "Family Plot".
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Crime Club
as KilburnA group of public and private investigators looks into the suspicious death of the son of one of...
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The Bait
as Earl StokeyTracy Fleming is a widowed police officer, with a young son, who has risen to the role of...
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The 300-Year Weekend
as TomA doctor spends 24 hours in a clinic with a group of patients. Each character has his or her own...
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NCIS
as Nicolas MasonFrom murder and espionage to terrorism and stolen submarines, a team of special agents...
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Stargate SG-1
as President HayesThe story of Stargate SG-1 begins about a year after the events of the feature film, when the...
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The West Wing
as Lewis BerryhillThe West Wing provides a glimpse into presidential politics in the nation's capital as it tells...
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The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as SelfThe Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson is a talk show hosted by Johnny Carson under The Tonight...
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The X-Files
as General Mark SuvegThe exploits of FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully who investigate X-Files:...
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Mannix
as Al KordicMannix is an American television detective series that ran from 1967 through 1975 on CBS....
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Psych
as PetersThanks to his police officer father's efforts, Shawn Spencer spent his childhood developing a...
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Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman
as Al CaponeA much more lavish version of the popular Superman television series which had first aired forty...
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24
as President James HellerCounterterrorism agent Jack Bauer fights the bad guys of the world, a day at a time. With each...
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24
as James HillerCounterterrorism agent Jack Bauer fights the bad guys of the world, a day at a time. With each...
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King of the Hill
as Chuck Garrison (voice)Set in Texas, this animated series follows the life of propane salesman Hank Hill, who lives...
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Medical Center
as Dr. Ray WalthamMedical Center is a medical drama series which aired on CBS from 1969 to 1976. It was produced...
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Revenge
as Edward GraysonWhen Emily Thorne moves to the Hamptons, everyone wonders about the new girl, but she knows...
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Knots Landing
as Greg SumnerThe domestic adventures, misdeeds and everyday interactions of five families living on a...
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Touched by an Angel
as Benjamin ParkerMonica, an angel, is tasked with bringing guidance and messages from God to various people who...
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Gunsmoke
as Moss StrattonGunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman...
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Bosch: Legacy
as Whitney VanceBosch is now making a living as a private investigator two years after he quit the LAPD and...
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The Michael Richards Show
as Brady McKayThe Michael Richards Show is a sitcom that debuted on NBC in 2000. The show starred Michael...
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Phenom
as Lou Della RosaA teenage tennis prodigy tries to balance a social life with her ambition for stardom, under...
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The Grinder
as Dean Sanderson Sr.Television lawyer Dean Sanderson moves back to his small home town after his hit series, "The...
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Hope and Gloria
as William DevaneHope and Gloria is an American sitcom produced by Warner Bros. Television and aired on NBC from...
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From Here to Eternity
as Sgt. Milt WardenThe lives of the men and families of G Company, 24th Infantry Division, United States Army, on...
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Crumbs
as uncreditedTwo estranged brothers reunite in their small hometown to deal with their mother who has just...
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Black Beauty
as John ManlyBorn free in the American West, Black Beauty is a horse rounded up and brought to Birtwick...
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The Snoop Sisters
as David PrineTwo elderly mystery novelists solve real crimes.
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A Woman Named Jackie
as Black Jack BouvierThis biographical miniseries, based on the best seller by C. David Heymann, starts when Jackie...
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Turks
as Sergeant Joseph TurkTurks is an American police drama that aired on CBS from January 21, 1999 to April 23, 1999.
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Knots Landing: Back to the Cul-de-Sac
as Greg SumnerKnots Landing: Back to the Cul-de-Sac is a 1997 television miniseries that served as a reunion...
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The Monroes
as uncreditedThe Monroes is a primetime soap opera starring William Devane and Susan Sullivan, that ran from...
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The Missiles of October
as John F. Kennedy - US PresidentThe Missiles of October is a 1974 docudrama made-for-television play about the Cuban missile...
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