Blind Ambition
20/05/1979
The Watergate crisis as viewed by John Dean and his wife Maureen, based on their personal accounts -- his best-seller, her book on how it affected their marriage -- and distilled into an eight-hour drama with all of the political figures of the day parading by as Dean relates his story to his attorney when his world, based on blind ambition, begins crashing down on him.
TV Show Information
Martin Sheen
as John Dean
Theresa Russell
as Maureeen Dean
Michael Callan
as Charles Colson
Lonny Chapman
as L. Patrick Gray
William Daniels
as G. Gordon Liddy
Clifford David
as Fred Fielding
Ed Flanders
as Charles Shaffer
Fred Grandy
as Donald Segretti
Christopher Guest
as Jeb Stuart Magruder
Graham Jarvis
as John Ehrlichman
Edward Mallory
as Henry Petersen
Gerald S. O'Loughlin
as John J. 'Jack' Caufield
Alan Oppenheimer
as George Simonson
Lawrence Pressman
as H.R. Haldeman
John Randolph
as John Mitchell
Peter Mark Richman
as Robert Mardian
William Schallert
as Herbert Kalmbach
James Sloyan
as Ronald Ziegler
Rip Torn
as Richard M. Nixon
William Windom
as Richard Kleindienst
Ralph Byers
as Hugh Sloan
Patrick Collins
as Gordon Strachan
Kip Niven
as Egil Krogh
Garn Stephens
as Carol Thompson
Logan Ramsey
as J. Edgar Hoover
James Greene
as E. Howard Hunt
Mitzi Hoag
as May-Chapin's Secretary
Lee Kessler
as Jane Thomas
Dawson Mays
as Dwight Chapin
Darrell Zwerling
as Frederick LaRue
Cathleen Cordell
as Pat Nixon
Terence McGovern
as Jack Garfield
Jenny O'Hara
as Liz Garfield
Al Checco
as Judge John Sirica
Rosemary DeCamp
as Maureen Dean's Mother
David Sheiner
as Sam Dash
Ross Bickell
as Tom Huston
Stuart Gillard
as Larry Higby
Harry Basch
as Gen. Walters
Brian Farrell
as Bruce Kehrli
