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Rich Man, Poor Man (1976)


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Synopsis:
The overwhelming success of this star-laden TV adaptation of Irwin Shaw's 1970 best-seller that was shown as six two-hour motion pictures over a seven-week period assured the future of the "Novel for Television" miniseries genre. Stars of varying magnitudes were made of the production's three leading players -- Peter Strauss, Susan Blakely and Nick Nolte (each Emmy Award-nominated) -- as the two Jordache brothers and the girl involved at one time or another with each during the twenty years from the end of World War II until the late 1960s in this odyssey examining the shifting social and moral values in America. It also spawned a weekly series, "Rich Man, Poor Man -- Book II" (which had nothing to do with Shaw's original book), running during the 1976-77 television season with Strauss continuing his original role.

Emmy Awards were won by Edward Asner and Fionnuala Flanagan for acting, David Greene for directing (Part 8), and Alex North for his music score. Among the other nominations (twenty in all) were one for Best Limited Series as well as to Dorothy McGuire, Ray Milland, Bill Bixby, Robert Reed, Van Johnson and Norman Fell (in various specialized acting categories), director Boris Sagal (for Part 5), writer Dean Reisner, cinematographer Howard R. Schwartz, costumer Charles Waldo, and editors Douglas Stewart and Richard Bracken.



Cast

Name
Credits
Rudy Jordache

Tom Jordache

Julie Prescott

Axel Jordache

Al Fanducci

Arnold Simms

Sue Prescott

Mary Jordache

Teddy Boylan

Claude Tinker

Mr Tinker

Miss Lenaut

Dr Tinker

Buddy

Martin

Theatre Manager

Bayard Nichols

Willie Abbott

Virginia Calderwood

Clothilde

Brad Knight

Duncan Calderwood

Bill Denton

Teresa Santoro

Harold Jordache

Jay Ledbetter

Asher Berg

Smitty

Gloria Bartley

Linda Quales

Joey Quales

Lou Martin

Pete Tierney

Falconetti

Sid Gossett

Marsh Goodwin

Irene Goodwin

Colonel Deiner

Kate

Pinky

Martha

Phil McGee

Billy Abbott

Writers

Name
Credits
Screenplay

Novel as Source Material

Producers

Name
Credits
Executive Producer

Producer

Directors

Name
Credits
Director

Director

Editor

Name
Credits
Camera, Film & Tape

Name
Credits
Director of Photography

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