Citizen Cohn (1992)
- Starring:
- James Woods, Joe Don Baker, (more)
- Director(s):
- Frank Pierson
- Category:
- Television
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Frank Pierson's made-for-cable adaptation of Nicholas VonHoffman's biography, Citizen Cohn stars James Woods as the controversial lawyer Roy Cohn. The film is structured as a series of flashbacks while Cohn lies in a New York hospital dying of AIDS. In the 1940s and early '50s, Cohn became one of the most powerful men in the country after becoming an important associate of Senator Joseph McCarthy (Joe Don Baker) and his Communist witch hunts. The film recounts those turbulent times and features portrayals of such real-life figures as J. Edgar Hoover (Pat Hingle), Dashiell Hammett (Frederic Forrest), Cardinal Spellman (Daniel Benzali), and Walter Winchell (Joseph Bologna). ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide
- Theatrical Feature Running Time:
- 112 mins
Complete Cast:
- James Woods - Roy Marcus Cohn
- Lee Grant - Dora
- Ed Flanders - Welch
- Chuck Aber - Senator McClellan
- Steve Aronson - Judge Kaufman
- Bernard Canepari - New York Judge
- David Earle - Chauffeur
- John Finn - Senator Charles Potter
- Frances Foster - First Annie Lee Moss
- Daniel Hugh Kelly - Congressman Neil Gallagher
- Patricia Dunnock - Female Nurse
- Josef Sommer - Albert Cohn
- Peter Maloney - Ray Kaplan
- Rick Warner - Robert Morgenthau Jr.
- Daniel Von Bargen - Clyde Tolson
- Joseph Scorsiani - Milo Gandini
- Novella Nelson - Second Annie Lee Moss
- Larry John Meyers - Frank Raichle
- Karen Ludwig - Ethel Rosenberg
- Fanni Green - Juror
- Joe Don Baker - Senator Joseph McCarthy
- Joseph Bologna - Walter Winchell
- Pat Hingle - Hoover
- Lamont Arnold - Male Nurse
- Daniel Benzali - Cardinal Spellman
- Sam Coppola - Carmine Gelanti
- Tovah Feldshuh - Iva Schlesinger
- Frederic Forrest - Hammett
- Allen Garfield - Abe Feller
- Kate Young - French Reporter
- Lance Lewman - Young Doctor
- John Seitz - Army Secretary Stevens
- Fritz Weaver - Senator Everett Dirksen
- Don Wadsworth - English Reporter #2
- Robin Thomas - Reporter
- Jeffrey Nordling - G. David Schine
- Zachary Mott - Sam Garfield
- John McMartin - Older Doctor
- David Marshall Grant - Robert F. Kennedy
- Joe Grifasi - Gerald Walpin
- Director(s):
- Frank Pierson
- Categories:
- Television
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- 1993 - Citizen Cohn - ACE - Best Movie/Miniseries
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