Directed by:
Sidney LumetScreenplay:
Paddy ChayefskyCinematography:
Owen RoizmanComposer:
Elliot LawrenceCast:
Faye Dunaway, William Holden, Peter Finch, Robert Duvall, Wesley Addy, Ned Beatty, Arthur Burghardt, Jordan Charney, Ed Crowley, Jerome Dempsey (more)VOD (1)
Plots(1)
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. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Faye Dunaway
USA
Best movies:
Little Big Man (1970)
The Towering Inferno (1974)
Chinatown (1974)
William Holden
USA
Best movies:
The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
Sunset Blvd. (1950)
The Towering Inferno (1974)
Peter Finch
UK
Best movies:
Father Brown (1954)
A Town Like Alice (1956)
The Nun's Story (1959)
Robert Duvall
USA
Best movies:
The Godfather Trilogy: 1901-1980 (1992) (TV movie)
The Godfather: A Novel for Television (1977) (series)
The Godfather (1972)
Wesley Addy
USA
Best movies:
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970)
Network (1976)
Ned Beatty
USA
Best movies:
Toy Story 3 (2010)
All the President's Men (1976)
The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (1972)
Arthur Burghardt
USA
Best movies:
Network (1976)
Transformers: The Movie (1986)
Denial (1998)
Jordan Charney
USA
Best movies:
Ghostbusters (1984)
Frances (1982)
Network (1976)
Ed Crowley
USA
Best movies:
Serpico (1973)
Three Days of the Condor (1975)
Running on Empty (1988)
Jerome Dempsey
USA
Best movies:
Network (1976)
The Hudsucker Proxy (1994)
Malatesta's Carnival of Blood (1973)
Conchata Ferrell
USA
Best movies:
K-Pax (2001)
Edward Scissorhands (1990)
True Romance (1993)
Darryl Hickman
USA
Best movies:
Rhapsody in Blue (1945)
If I Were King (1938)
Leave Her to Heaven (1945)
Paul Jenkins
USA
Ken Kercheval
USA
Best movies:
Network (1976)
The Patricia Neal Story (1981) (TV movie)
The Seven-Ups (1973)
Kenneth Kimmins
USA
Best movies:
If Tomorrow Comes (1986) (series)
Shoot the Moon (1982)
Network (1976)
Michael Lombard
USA
Best movies:
The Devil's Advocate (1997)
Network (1976)
Rounders (1998)
Roy Poole
USA
Best movies:
Brubaker (1980)
Network (1976)
Sometimes a Great Notion (1971)
William Prince
USA
Best movies:
Sybil (1976) (TV movie)
Objective, Burma! (1945)
Network (1976)
Lane Smith
USA
Best movies:
If Tomorrow Comes (1986) (series)
The Legend of Bagger Vance (2000)
Frances (1982)