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George Wallace

Year:

1997

Duration:

178 min | Finland:200 min (4 parts)

Genres:

Biography | Drama

IMDB rate:

7.3

Director:

John Frankenheimer

Awards:

Won 2 Golden Globes. Another 15 wins & 22 nominations

Details

Country: USA

Release Date: 1997-08-24

Filming Locations: Los Angeles, California, USA

Cast

Actor

Character

Angelina Jolie

Gary Sinise

George C. Wallace

Mare Winningham

Lurleen Wallace

Clarence Williams III

Archie

Joe Don Baker

Big Jim Folsom

Terry Kinney

Billy Watson

William Sanderson

T.Y. Odum

Mark Rolston

Ricky Brickle

Tracy Fraim

Gerald Wallace

Skipp Sudduth

Al Lingo (as Skip Sudduth)

Ron Perkins

Nicholas Katzenbach

Mark Valley

Bobby Kennedy

Charles Bartlett

Demonstrator

Terrence Beasor

Demonstrator

Chuck A. Bernard

Convention Speaker

Scott Brantley

Arthur Bremer

Kathryn Craig

Girl at Party

Timothy Dowling

Demonstrator (as Tim Dowling)

Miata Edoga

Demonstrator

Kathryn Erbe

Mrs. Folsom

Julian Forbes

Reporter

Francis Guinan

Klan Member #2

Randy Hall

Mass. State Trooper

Michael Harrington

Doctor (Maryland)

Steve Harris

Neal

Michael Haynes

Cornelia's Trooper #1

Vincent Henry

Reporter

Kent Houseman

Guitarist

Ron Jeremy

Demonstrator (as Ron Hyatt)

Mel Jackson

Eddie

Jan Johannes

General Graham

Franklin Dennis Jones

Jamison (as Frank Jones)

Robert Jones

Man in Church

Kathleen Kane

Demonstrator

Bobby Kirby

James Hood

Clancy Imislund

Klan Member #1

Sabrina Mance

Wallace Girl

Jonathan Mumm

TV Commentator

Ketema Nelson

Vivian Malone

Race Nelson

Cornelia's Trooper #1

Kaye Phillips

Choir Leader

Briana Romero

Cornelia as Child

Chanel Ryan

Wallace Girl (as Chanel S. Ryan)

Tiffany Salerno

Velma

Vernon Scott

Demonstrator

Liam Sullivan

Reporter

Don Blakely

Loosh

Cliff De Young

Dr. Jeff McKinney

Beau Billingslea

Demonstrator

Rob Roy Fitzgerald

Alabama State Trooper

Ralph Abernathy

Himself - Behind King (archive footage) (uncredited)

Cabran E. Chamberlain

Wallace Supporter (uncredited)

Eva Ford

Campaign Supporter (uncredited)

Gretchen Janke

Student (uncredited)

Lyndon Johnson

Himself - Calls Alabama National Guard (archive footage) (uncredited)

John F. Kennedy

Himself - Civil Rights Speech (archive footage) (uncredited)

Martin Luther King

Himself - 'How Long' Speech (archive footage) (uncredited)

Todd Krainin

Demonstrator (uncredited)

John Lewis

Himself - Leads Marchers at Edmund Pettus Bridge (archive footage) (uncredited)

Jim McHugh

Reporter (uncredited)

Jill Marie McMurray

Political Supporter (uncredited)

Bayard Rustin

Himself - Behind King (archive footage) (uncredited)

John-Clay Scott

Big Jim Folsom Body Guard (uncredited)

Andrew Young

Himself - Behind King (archive footage) (uncredited)

Did you know?

Trivia

The night that Gary Sinise won the Emmy award for his portrayal of George Wallace, the real George Wallace died of a heart attack.

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Gary Sinise returned in the role of Wallace on another TV movie Path to War (2002), also directed by John Frankenheimer.

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Filmed in Sacramento, to use the California's capital building. Alabama refused to allow the use for this movie.

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Goofs

When Archie lowers Wallace into the tub for bathing, his severely atrophied legs are made quite obvious, but in the next scene when he is sitting in his wheelchair wearing a robe while watching the kids play through the window, his calf muscles are showing and his legs appear normal in size.

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The future Cornelia Wallace is depicted as a small girl on her uncle's shoulders at Jim Folson's inauguration on January 17, 1955. In fact, Cornelia would have been eleven days short of her sixteenth birthday at the time.

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When Wallace (Sinise) is watching TV after the events in Selma, the gas masks that the Alabama state troopers wear change in between scenes.

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