F.D.R. The Last Year (1980)
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Jason Robards stars as the ailing, 62-year-old President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in F.D.R.: The Last Year. Though visibly frail and weary, Roosevelt runs for a precedent-setting fourth term. He also oversees plans for the D-Day Invasion and engages in tempestuous summit meetings with his wartime allies Stalin (Nehemiah Persoff) and Churchill (Wensley Pithey). Eileen Heckart co-stars as Eleanor Roosevelt, while Kim Hunter plays his "great and good friend," artist Lucy Rutherfurd, who is at his side when he suffers his fatal cerebral hemorrhage in April of 1945. The 3-hour, made-for-TV F.D.R.: The Last Year was first telecast May 15, 1980. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Director(s):
- Anthony Page
Synopsis of F.D.R. The Last Year
Jason Robards stars as the ailing, 62-year-old President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in F.D.R.: The Last Year. Though visibly frail and weary, Roosevelt runs for a precedent-setting fourth term. He also oversees plans for the D-Day Invasion and engages in tempestuous summit meetings with his wartime allies Stalin (Nehemiah Persoff) and Churchill (Wensley Pithey). Eileen Heckart co-stars as Eleanor Roosevelt, while Kim Hunter plays his "great and good friend," artist Lucy Rutherfurd, who is at his side when he suffers his fatal cerebral hemorrhage in April of 1945. The 3-hour, made-for-TV F.D.R.: The Last Year was first telecast May 15, 1980. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Complete Cast of F.D.R. The Last Year
- Eileen Heckart - Eleanor Roosevelt
- Edward Binns - General "Pa" Watson
- Larry Gates - Admiral Leahy
- Jason Robards, Jr. - Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Mike Kellin - Andre Gromyko
- Avon Long - Bunnright
- Nehemiah Persoff - Josef Stalin
- Sylvia Sidney - Cousin Polly
- Kenneth Welsh - Thomas E. Dewey
- Kim Hunter - Lucy Rutherford
- Augusta Dabney - Grace Tully
- Richard Hamilton - Robert Hanagan
- James Karen - Admiral McIntyre
- Cec Linder - Samuel Rosenman
- Terry O'Quinn - James Roosevelt
- George R. Robertson - General Groves
- Kathryn Walker - Anna
- Michael Gross - Dr. Howard Bruenn
- Director(s):
- Anthony Page
- Writer(s):
- Stanley R. Greenberg
- Producer(s):
- Robert Berger
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