Movies / Network (1976)
Runtime: 121 min
Genres: Drama
Languages: English
Countries: USA
Howard Beale, the dean of newscasters at the United Television Network, is put out to pasture because he too old. Network executive Max Schumacher, Howard's best friend, is forced to deliver the bad news. Beale can't stomach the idea of losing his 25-year post as anchorman simply because of age, so in his next broadcast he announces to the viewers that he's going to commit suicide on his final program. What he doesn't count on is a media blitz surrounding his circumstance.
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Directors (1) | Credit |
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Sidney Lumet | ... |
Writers (1) | Credit |
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Paddy Chayefsky | (written by) |
Composers (1) | Credit |
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Elliot Lawrence | ... |
Editors (1) | Credit |
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Alan Heim | ... |
Cinematographers (1) | Credit |
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Owen Roizman | ... |
Actors (55) | Credit |
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Ahmed Yamani | Himself (at OPEC conference) (archive footage) (uncredited) |
Andrew Duncan | Agent (uncredited) |
Arthur Burghardt | Great Ahmed Kahn |
Beatrice Straight | Louise Schumacher |
Bernard Pollock | Lou |
Betty Ford | Herself (beside her husband) (archive footage) (uncredited) |
Bill Burrows | TV Director |
Cameron Thomas | TV Technical Director |
Carolyn Krigbaum | Max's Secretary |
Cindy Grover | Caroline Schumacher |
Conchata Ferrell | Barbara Schlesinger |
Darryl Hickman | Bill Herron |
David Susskind | Himself (conducts interview) (archive footage) (uncredited) |
Ed Crowley | Joe Donnelly |
Faye Dunaway | Diana Christensen |
Fred Stuthman | Mosaic Figure |
Gene Gross | Milton K. Steinman |
Gerald Ford | Himself (speech on assassination attempts) (archive footage) (uncredited) |
Howard K. Smith | Himself (news anchorman) (archive footage) (uncredited) |
Jerome Dempsey | Walter C. Amundsen |
John Carpenter | George Bosch |
John Chancellor | Himself - News Anchorman (archive footage) (uncredited) |
John Gabriel | TV anchor reporting Beale's suicide threat (uncredited) |
Jordan Charney | Harry Hunter |
Kathy Cronkite | Mary Ann Gifford |
Ken Kercheval | Merrill Grant |
Kenneth Kimmins | Associate Producer |
Lance Henriksen | Network lawyer at Khan's place (uncredited) |
Lane Smith | Robert McDonough |
Lee Richardson | Narrator (voice) |
Lydia Wilen | Hunter's Secretary |
Lynn Klugman | TV Production Assistant |
Marlene Warfield | Laureen Hobbs |
Michael Lipton | Tommy Pellegrino |
Michael Lombard | Willie Stein |
Michael Tucker | Man At Desk (uncredited) |
Mitchell Jason | Arthur Zangwill |
Ned Beatty | Arthur Jensen |
Paul Jenkins | TV Stage Manager |
Peter Finch | Howard Beale |
Pirie MacDonald | Herb Thackeray |
Raymond Martino | Window person (uncredited) |
Robert Duvall | Frank Hackett |
Roy Poole | Sam Haywood |
Russ Petranto | TV Associate Director |
Sasha von Scherler | Helen Miggs |
Stanley Grover | Jack Snowden |
Ted Sorel | Giannini (as Theodore Sorel) |
Tim Robbins | Assassin (uncredited) |
Todd Everett | Reporter (uncredited) |
Walter Cronkite | Himself (news anchorman) (archive footage) (uncredited) |
Wesley Addy | Nelson Chaney |
William Holden | Max Schumacher |
William Prince | Edward George Ruddy |
Zane Lasky | Audio Man |