

10/02/1985
The Atlanta Child Murders is a TV miniseries that aired on February 10 and 12, 1985 on CBS. Inspired by true events, the miniseries examines the so-called "Atlanta child murders" of the late 1970s and early 1980s.

Jason Robards
as Alvin Binder

James Earl Jones
as Major Walker

Rip Torn
as Lewis Slaton

Morgan Freeman
as Ben Shelter

Calvin Levels
as Wayne Williams

Lynne Moody
as Selena Cobb

Ruby Dee
as Faye Williams

Gloria Foster
as Camille Bell

Paul Benjamin
as Homer Williams

Andrew Robinson
as Jack Mallard

Christopher Allport
as Larry Peterson

Guy Boyd
as Mike Edwards

Gary Graham
as Ken Lawson

Bill Paxton
as Campbell

Percy Rodriguez
as Mayor Jackson

William Allen Young
as Withers

Martin Sheen
as Chet Dettlinger

Tina Andrews
as Gwendolyn

Michael Alldredge
as Bobby Tolin

Clarence Floyd III
as J.J. Coleman

Robert S. Telford
as Polygraph Operator

Jim Antonio
as Gilliland

Stephen Godwin
as Jerry Heckler

Ernest Harden Jr.
as Cool Breeze

Don Hood
as McLean

Kenneth Kimmins
as Broderick

Christopher Maher
as Dr. Saleh Zaki

Alley Mills
as Amy Kennear

CCH Pounder
as Venus Taylor

Veronica Redd
as Sharon Blakely

Henry G. Sanders
as Judge Clarence Cooper

Lisa Blake Richards
as Helen Dettlinger

Barbara Sammeth
as Connie Levine

Essex Smith
as Robert Henry

Harold Sylvester
as Hindsman

Royce Wallace
as Margaret Carter

Charles Weldon
as John Bell

John Wesley
as Tombe Chorro

Mark Arnold
as David Dingle

Beau Billingslea
as Commissioner Lee Brown

Ed Cambridge
as Mr. Cobb

Marilyn Coleman
as Lois Evans

Noel Conlon
as Psychiatrist

John Devlin
as Cassidy

Zero Hubbard
as Patrick

Barbara Harris
as Mary Welcome

Steve James
as Policeman #1

John Lafayette
as Young Lawyer

Lawrence Lott
as Dr. Sack

Felton Perry
as Rev. Avery

John Petlock
as Pathologist

Jack Rader
as Rackleff

J.W. Smith
as Nathaniel Carter

Maurice Sneed
as Roommate

Christopher St. John
as Baltazar

Kristoff St. John
as Sheldon Kemp

Olga Talyn
as Mrs. Sack

Anthony Thompkins
as Darryl

Ellen Tobie
as Gloria Patterson

Myrna White
as Robin Shelter

Noble Willingham
as Jerry Armstrong

Erica Yohn
as Ruth

S.V. Henson, Jr.
as Dancer
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