Movie · 1977
Tail Gunner Joe
Released 6 February 1977 More from 1977 → Letterboxd ↗ · TMDB ↗
Senator Joseph McCarthy from Wisconsin accuses prominent people of Communist sympathies in order to give him a national power base when he later planned to run for President.
FR·01
How old were they?
Burgess Meredith
as Joseph Welch
Alan Hewitt
as Dean Acheson
John Randolph
as Gen. Lampkin
John Forsythe
as Paul Cunningham
Lin McCarthy
as Sen. Stuart Symington
Herb Voland
as Sen. Raymond Baldwin
Addison Powell
as General George C. Marshall
Jean Stapleton
as Mrs. DeCamp
Diana Douglas
as Sarah
Philip Abbott
as Scott Lucas
Andrew Duggan
as Dwight Eisenhower
Shirley O'Hara
as Marie
Charles Macaulay
as Wm. Roberts
Peter Boyle
as Joseph McCarthy
Andrew Prine
as Peter Parker McNair Gates
Ned Beatty
as Sylvester
Charles Siebert
as James Juliana
Howard Hesseman
as Lt. Ted Cantwell
FR·02
The numbers
33years between the oldest and youngest billed
69Burgess Meredith — oldest on the call sheet
36Howard Hesseman — youngest billed
52average age of the credited cast