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AMERICAN PLAYHOUSE: SOLOMON NORTHUP'S ODYSSEY (TV)
Summary
One in this dramatic anthology series. In this drama, Avery Brooks stars as Solomon Northup, an African captured into slavery and forced to work on various plantations throughout mid-19th century Louisiana. The drama is an adaptation of Northup's own autobiography, "My Twelve Years as a Slave," which documents his life of subjugation and cruelty.
Details
- NETWORK: PBS
- DATE: December 10, 1984 Monday
- RUNNING TIME: 1:55:43
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: T:21239
- GENRE: Drama, historical
- SUBJECT HEADING: African-American Collection - Drama; Drama, historical; Slavery; Biography
- SERIES RUN: PBS - TV series, 1982-
- COMMERCIALS: N/A
CREDITS
- Lindsay Law … Executive Producer
- Shep Morgan … Executive Producer
- Yanna Kroyt Brandt … Producer
- Gordon Parks … Director, Music by
- Preston Holmes … Associate Producer
- Nancy Lapook Diamond … Associate Producer
- Lou Potter … Writer
- Samm-Art Williams … Writer
- Solomon Northup … Based on the autobiography by
- Kermit Moore … Music by
- John Archangeli … Choreographer
- Avery Brooks … Cast, Solomon Northrup
- Mason Adams … Cast, Ford
- Kent Broadhurst … Cast, Bass
- Lee Bryant … Cast, Mrs. Epps
- Rhetta Greene … Cast, Jenny
- Janet League … Cast, Eliza
- Petronia Paley … Cast, Anne
- J.C. Quinn … Cast, Tibeats
- John Saxon … Cast, Epps
- John Seneca … Cast, Noah
- Michael Tolan … Cast, Henry Northrup
- Jamie Higgins … Cast, Margaret
- Tanzia Franks … Cast, Elizabeth
- Emory Beasley … Cast, Alonzo
- Lisa Bonfield … Cast, Mrs. Ford
- Charles Darden … Cast, Robert
- Robert L. Stevenson … Cast, Arthur
- Gerhard Schwisow … Cast, Manning
- Ralph Flanders … Cast, Captain
- Randal Patrick … Cast, Sailor
- Danny Nelson … Cast, Chapin
- Barbara Carlyle … Cast, Sally
- Leroy Bolden … Cast, Caleb
- Ralph Pace … Cast, Birch
- J. Don Ferguson … Cast, Freeman
- Don Devendorf … Cast, Robinson
- John D. Northup … Cast, Sherrill
- Royce Willman … Cast, Meril Brown
- Thomas Campbell … Cast, Bram Hamilton
- Art Evans … Cast, Walton
- Lou Walker … Cast, Jacob
- Jay McMillan … Cast, Harry
- Ann Pearl Gray … Cast, Kelsey
- Charles McGhee … Cast, Luke
- Anthony Edenfield … Cast, Ned
- Willie Woods … Cast, Shad
- Tony Dreyspool … Cast, Senator Soule
- Harry George … Cast, Sheriff
- Angela Killingsworth … Cast, Elizabeth
- David Keith Anderson … Cast, Alonzo