Ellis Island
Rating: 5.1 · 1984 · Drama · USA · 1 sns
Description
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.
Information
- Year
- 1984
- Genre
- Drama
- Country
- USA
- Seasons
- 1
- TMDB
- 5.1
- IMDb
- 5.1
- Tagline
- THE DREAM WAS AMERICA AND THE DOOR TO THE DREAM WAS ELLIS ISLAND.
Director
Cast
- Peter Riegert — Jacob Rubinstein
- Gregory Paul Martin — Marco Santorelli
- Claire Bloom — Rebecca Weiler
- Judi Bowker — Georgiana "Georgie" O'Donnell
- Kate Burton — Vanessa Ogden
- Joan Greenwood — Madame Levitska
- Ann Jillian — Nellie Byfield
- Lila Kaye — Kathleen O'Donnell
- Stubby Kaye — Abe Shulman
- Alice Krige — Bridget O'Donnell
- Cherie Lunghi — Una Marbury
- Melba Moore — Flora Mitchum
- Milo O'Shea — Casey O'Donnell
- Emma Samms — Violet Weiler
- Ben Vereen — Roscoe Haines
- Faye Dunaway — Maud Charteris
- Richard Burton — Sen. Phipps Ogden
- Michael Byrne — Dr. Carl Travers
- Sarah Peterson — Laura
- Julian Holloway — Florenz Ziegfeld