Popcorn Time

7.1

989 votes

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Plot:
The story of journalist Edward R. Murrow's stand against Senator Joseph McCarthy's anti-communist witch-hunts in the early 1950s.

Cast:

Actor	Character
David Strathairn	Edward R. Murrow
Patricia Clarkson	Shirley Wershba
George Clooney	Fred Friendly
Jeff Daniels	Sig Mickelson
Robert Downey Jr.	Joe Wershba
Frank Langella	William Paley
Ray Wise	Don Hollenbeck
Robert John Burke	Charlie Mack
Reed Diamond	John Aaron
Tate Donovan	Jesse Zousmer
Grant Heslov	Don Hewitt
Tom McCarthy	Palmer Williams
Matt Ross	Eddie Scott
Rose Abdoo	Mili Lerner
Alex Borstein	Natalie
Peter Jacobson	Jimmy
Robert Knepper	Don Surine
Dianne Reeves	Jazz Singer
Peter Martin	Pianist
Christoph Luty	Bassist
Jeff Hamilton	Drummer
Matt Catingub	Saxophonist
Glenn Morshower	Colonel Anderson
Don Creech	Colonel Jenkins
Helen Slayton-Hughes	Mary
Simon Helberg	CBS Page
JD Cullum	Stage Manager
John Kepley	CBS Lawyer #1
David Paul Christian	CBS Lawyer #2
Joyce Lasley	Make-Up Girl
Bill Blair	TV Studio Crewman (uncredited)
Joseph Dowd	Reporter (uncredited)
Bruna Matsin	Sig Mickelson's Wife (uncredited)
Katharine Phillips Moser	Jesse's Wife (uncredited)
Alexana Thomas	Senator's Wife (uncredited)
Dave Thompson	News Photographer (uncredited)
Rochelle Warner	Speech Wife (uncredited)
Roy Cohn	Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Dwight D. Eisenhower	Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Robert F. Kennedy	Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Liberace	Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Joseph McCarthy	Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
John L. McClellan	Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Milo Radulovich	Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Joseph N. Welch	Self (archive footage) (uncredited)