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Roots (23-Jan-1977)

Directors: Marvin J. Chomsky; John Erman; David Greene; Gilbert Moses

Writers: William Blinn; M. Charles Cohen; Ernest Kinoy; James Lee

From novel: Roots by Alex Haley

Keywords: Drama, Slavery, Ku Klux Klan, Controversial

TV miniseries.

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
John Amos
Actor
27-Dec-1939   James Evans on Good Times
Maya Angelou
Poet
4-Apr-1928   I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Ed Asner
Actor
15-Nov-1929   Lou Grant
Lloyd Bridges
Actor
15-Jan-1913 10-Mar-1998 Airplane!
Todd Bridges
Actor
27-May-1965   Diff'rent Strokes
Georg Stanford Brown
Actor
24-Jun-1943   Officer Webster on The Rookies
LeVar Burton
Actor
16-Feb-1957   La Forge on Star Trek: TNG
Macdonald Carey
Actor
15-Mar-1913 21-Mar-1994 Tom Horton on Days of Our Lives
Gary Collins
Actor
30-Apr-1938   Host of The Home Show
Chuck Connors
Actor
10-Apr-1921 10-Nov-1992 The Rifleman
Scatman Crothers
Jazz Musician
23-May-1910 22-Nov-1986 Jazz musician and actor
Thayer David
Actor
4-Mar-1927 17-Jul-1978 Jergens in Rocky
Brad Davis
Actor
6-Nov-1949 8-Sep-1991 Midnight Express
Yvonne De Carlo
Actor
1-Sep-1922 8-Jan-2007 Lily on The Munsters
Sandy Duncan
Actor
20-Feb-1946   Wheat Thins pitchwoman
Richard Farnsworth
Actor
1-Sep-1920 6-Oct-2000 Comes a Horseman
Lynda Day George
Actor
11-Dec-1944   Lisa Casey on Mission: Impossible
Lou Gossett, Jr.
Actor
27-May-1936   Drill Sgt. in An Officer and a Gentleman
Lorne Greene
Actor
12-Feb-1915 11-Sep-1987 Actor, wildlife host, promoter of dogfood
Moses Gunn
Actor
2-Oct-1929 16-Dec-1993 Bumpy Jonas in Shaft
George Hamilton
Actor
12-Aug-1939   Well-tanned celebrity
Burl Ives
Singer
14-Jun-1909 14-Apr-1995 Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Brion James
Actor
20-Feb-1945 7-Aug-1999 Leon the replicant in Blade Runner
Carolyn Jones
Actor
28-Apr-1929 3-Aug-1983 Morticia on The Addams Family
Yaphet Kotto
Actor
15-Nov-1937   Homicide
Doug McClure
Actor
11-May-1935 5-Feb-1995 Trampas in The Virginian
Ian McShane
Actor
29-Sep-1942   Lovejoy
Vic Morrow
Actor
14-Feb-1929 23-Jul-1982 Sgt. Chip Saunders on Combat
John Quade
Actor
1-Apr-1938 9-Aug-2009 Every Which Way But Loose
Robert Reed
Actor
19-Oct-1932 12-May-1992 Mike (dad) on The Brady Bunch
Roxie Roker
Actor
28-Aug-1929 2-Dec-1995 Helen Willis on The Jeffersons
Richard Roundtree
Actor
9-Jul-1942   Shaft
John Schuck
Actor
4-Feb-1940   Sgt. Enright on McMillan and Wife
Paul Shenar
Actor
12-Feb-1936 11-Oct-1989 The Secret of NIMH
O. J. Simpson
Football
9-Jul-1947   Searching tirelessly for the real killers
Madge Sinclair
Actor
28-Apr-1938 20-Dec-1995 Nurse Shoop on Trapper John
Raymond St. Jacques
Actor
1-Mar-1930 27-Aug-1990 Cotton Comes to Harlem
Ernest Thomas
Actor
26-Mar-1950   Raj on What's Happening
Cicely Tyson
Actor
19-Dec-1933   Sounder
Leslie Uggams
Actor
25-May-1943   Roots
Ben Vereen
Actor
10-Oct-1946   Jesus Christ Superstar
Ralph Waite
Actor
22-Jun-1928   John Walton, Sr. on The Waltons

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