TV series · 1984
Ellis Island
“THE DREAM WAS AMERICA AND THE DOOR TO THE DREAM WAS ELLIS ISLAND.”
First aired 11 November 1984 Drama TMDB ↗
Ellis Island is a television miniseries broadcast in three parts in 1984 on the CBS television network. The screenplay was co-written by Fred Mustard Stewart, adapted from his 1983 novel of the same title. The series tells the story of several immigrants from the late 1800s until the early 1910s, trying to achieve the American Dream and arriving on Ellis Island, hoping for a better life. Ellis Island highlighted numerous important events which occurred up to and during World War I, and many of the characters are based on real persons, such as Irving Berlin.
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Joan Greenwood
as Madame Levitska
Milo O'Shea
as Casey O'Donnell
Lila Kaye
as Kathleen O'Donnell
Claire Bloom
as Rebecca Weiler
George Innes
as Ellis Island Doctor
Julian Holloway
as Florenz Ziegfeld
Melba Moore
as Flora Mitchum
Ben Vereen
as Roscoe Haines
Peter Riegert
as Jacob Rubinstein
Liam Neeson
as Kevin Murray
Cherie Lunghi
as Una Marbury
Judi Bowker
as Georgiana "Georgie" O'Donnell
Kate Burton
as Vanessa Ogden
Gregory Paul Martin
as Marco Santorelli
Emma Samms
as Violet Weiler
Neil Morrissey
as Sean