Ellis Island

Synopsis

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.

Trailer

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Cast

Peter Riegert

Jacob Rubinstein

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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

Crew

Camera

• Jack Hildyard Director of Photography
• Dudley Lovell Director of Photography
• Ennio Guarnieri Director of Photography

Crew

• Fred Mustard Stewart Creator

Directing

• Jerry London Director

Editing

• Bernard Gribble Editor
• James Galloway Editor
• John J. Dumas Editor

Production

• Frank Konigsberg Executive Producer
• Patricia Johnson Associate Producer
• Barry Jossen Associate Producer
• Gabriel Katzka Executive Producer
• Nick Gillott Producer
• Jerry London Supervising Producer

Sound

• Zeljko Marasovich Original Music Composer
• John Addison Original Music Composer

Writing

• Christopher Newman Teleplay
• Fred Mustard Stewart Teleplay
• Fred Mustard Stewart Novel

Seasons & episodes