Ellis Island
Ellis Island
Overview
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.
Cast
Peter Riegert
Gregory Paul Martin
Claire Bloom
Judi Bowker
Kate Burton
Joan Greenwood
Ann Jillian
Lila Kaye
Stubby Kaye
Alice Krige
Cherie Lunghi
Melba Moore
Milo O’Shea
Emma Samms
Ben Vereen
Faye Dunaway
Richard Burton
Michael Byrne
Barrie Holland
Crew
Jerry London
Fred Mustard Stewart
Frank Konigsberg
Zeljko Marasovich
Bernard Gribble
Patricia Johnson
Barry Jossen
Gabriel Katzka
James Galloway
Christopher Newman
Fred Mustard Stewart
John Addison
Jack Hildyard
John J. Dumas
Dudley Lovell
Nick Gillott
Jerry London
