Tail Gunner Joe

145 minutes

2/6/1977

Overview

Senator Joseph McCarthy from Wisconsin accuses prominent people of Communist sympathies in order to give him a national power base when he later planned to run for President.

Cast List

Peter Boyle
as Joseph McCarthy
John Forsythe
as Paul Cunningham
Burgess Meredith
as Joseph Welch
Patricia Neal
as Margaret Chase Smith
Jean Stapleton
as Mrs. DeCamp
Ned Beatty
as Sylvester
Philip Abbott
as Scott Lucas
Wallace Rooney
as Speaker
Heather Menzies
as Logan
Wesley Addy
as Middleton
Karen Carlson
as Jean Kerr
John Carradine
as Wisconsin Farmer
Charles Cioffi
as Logan's Boss
Diana Douglas
as Sarah
Andrew Duggan
as Dwight Eisenhower
Henry Jones
as Armitage
Murray Matheson
as Publisher
Allan Miller
as Pete
Tim O'Connor
as Librarian
Alan Oppenheimer
as Eisenhower Publicist
Addison Powell
as General George C. Marshall
Andrew Prine
as Peter Parker McNair Gates
John Randolph
as Gen. Lampkin
Allan Rich
as Ray Jenkins
William Schallert
as Gen. Zwicker
Simon Scott
as Robert Ten Broeck Stevens
Robert F. Simon
as Drew Pearson
George Wyner
as Roy Cohn
Lin McCarthy
as Sen. Stuart Symington
Kelly Jean Peters
as Mrs. Sarah Gates
Robert Symonds
as President Harry Truman
Charles Siebert
as James Juliana
Sam Chew Jr.
as Robert F. Kennedy
John Chappell
as Sen. Karl Mundt
Herb Voland
as Sen. Raymond Baldwin
Edward Anhalt
as Sen. Herbert Lehman
Alan Hewitt
as Dean Acheson
Howard Hesseman
as Lt. Ted Cantwell
Jack Bannon
as Eisenhower Aide
Charles Macaulay
as Wm. Roberts
Richard M. Dixon
as Sen. Richard M. Nixon
Morgan Upton
as Clucas
Shirley O'Hara
as Marie
George Petrie
as Chas. Kraus