TV series · 2008
John Adams
“He united the states of America.”
First aired 16 March 2008 Drama TMDB ↗
Adapted from David McCullough's Pulitzer Prize-winning biography, this lavish seven-part miniseries chronicles the life of Founding Father John Adams, starting with the Boston Massacre of 1770 through his years as an ambassador in Europe, then his terms as vice president and president of the United States, up to his death on July 4, 1826.
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Tom Wilkinson
as Benjamin Franklin
Stephen Dillane
as Thomas Jefferson
John Dossett
as Benjamin Rush
Danny Huston
as Samuel Adams
Laura Linney
as Abigail Adams
Sarah Polley
as Abigail Adams Smith
Madeline Taylor
as Young Nabby Adams
Steven Hinkle
as Young John Quincy Adams
Everyone else (18) ↓
Judith Magre
as Madame Helvétius
Afemo Omilami
as Servant
David Morse
as George Washington
John Bedford Lloyd
as Richard Palmes
Jean-Hugues Anglade
as Comte de Vergennes
Željko Ivanek
as John Dickinson
Guy Henry
as Jonathan Sewall
Tom Hollander
as King George III
Rufus Sewell
as Alexander Hamilton
Paul Giamatti
as John Adams
Alan Cox
as William Maclay
Justin Theroux
as John Hancock
Andrew Scott
as Colonel William Smith
Ebon Moss-Bachrach
as John Quincy Adams
Samuel Barnett
as Thomas Adams
Mamie Gummer
as Sally Smith Adams
Cyril Descours
as Edmund Charles Genet
Kevin Trainor
as Charles Adams