About Blind Ambition
- Released on May 20, 1979
The Watergate crisis as viewed by John Dean and his wife Maureen, based on their personal accounts -- his best-seller, her book on how it affected their marriage -- and distilled into an eight-hour drama with all of the political figures of the day parading by as Dean relates his story to his attorney when his world, based on blind ambition, begins crashing down on him.
Full Cast of Blind Ambition
Martin Sheen plays John Dean (4 episodes)
Theresa Russell plays Maureeen Dean (4 episodes)
Michael Callan plays Charles Colson (4 episodes)
Lonny Chapman plays L. Patrick Gray (4 episodes)
William Daniels plays G. Gordon Liddy (4 episodes)
Clifford David plays Fred Fielding (4 episodes)
Ed Flanders plays Charles Shaffer (4 episodes)
Fred Grandy plays Donald Segretti (4 episodes)
Christopher Guest plays Jeb Stuart Magruder (4 episodes)
Graham Jarvis plays John Ehrlichman (4 episodes)
Edward Mallory plays Henry Petersen (4 episodes)
Gerald S. O'Loughlin plays John J. 'Jack' Caufield (4 episodes)
Alan Oppenheimer plays George Simonson (4 episodes)
Lawrence Pressman plays H.R. Haldeman (4 episodes)
John Randolph plays John Mitchell (4 episodes)
Peter Mark Richman plays Robert Mardian (4 episodes)
William Schallert plays Herbert Kalmbach (4 episodes)
James Sloyan plays Ronald Ziegler (4 episodes)
Rip Torn plays Richard M. Nixon (4 episodes)
William Windom plays Richard Kleindienst (4 episodes)
Ralph Byers plays Hugh Sloan (4 episodes)
Patrick Collins plays Gordon Strachan (4 episodes)
Kip Niven plays Egil Krogh (4 episodes)
Garn Stephens plays Carol Thompson (4 episodes)
Logan Ramsey plays J. Edgar Hoover (4 episodes)
James Greene plays E. Howard Hunt (4 episodes)
Mitzi Hoag plays May-Chapin's Secretary (4 episodes)
Lee Kessler plays Jane Thomas (4 episodes)
Dawson Mays plays Dwight Chapin (4 episodes)
Darrell Zwerling plays Frederick LaRue (4 episodes)
Cathleen Cordell plays Pat Nixon (4 episodes)
Terence McGovern plays Jack Garfield (4 episodes)
Jenny O'Hara plays Liz Garfield (4 episodes)
Al Checco plays Judge John Sirica (4 episodes)
Rosemary DeCamp plays Maureen Dean's Mother (4 episodes)
David Sheiner plays Sam Dash (4 episodes)
Ross Bickell plays Tom Huston (4 episodes)
Stuart Gillard plays Larry Higby (4 episodes)
Harry Basch plays Gen. Walters (4 episodes)
Brian Farrell plays Bruce Kehrli (4 episodes)
Crew of Blind Ambition
Art
Camera
Directing
Editing
Production
Sound
Writing
- Martin Sheen
- Theresa Russell
- Michael Callan
- Lonny Chapman
- William Daniels
- Clifford David
- Ed Flanders
- Fred Grandy
- Christopher Guest
- Graham Jarvis
- Edward Mallory
- Gerald S. O'Loughlin
- Alan Oppenheimer
- Lawrence Pressman
- John Randolph
- Peter Mark Richman
- William Schallert
- James Sloyan
- Rip Torn
- William Windom
- Ralph Byers
- Patrick Collins
- Kip Niven
- Garn Stephens
- Logan Ramsey
- James Greene
- Mitzi Hoag
- Lee Kessler
- Dawson Mays
- Darrell Zwerling
- Cathleen Cordell
- Terence McGovern
- Jenny O'Hara
- Al Checco
- Rosemary DeCamp
- David Sheiner
- Ross Bickell
- Stuart Gillard
- Harry Basch
- Brian Farrell