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Rich Man, Poor Man is a 1976 American television miniseries based on the 1969 novel of the same name by Irwin Shaw that aired on ABC in one or two-hour episodes mostly on Monday nights over seven weeks, beginning February 1.
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Jefferson co-starred as merchant seaman Roy Dwyer in the award-winning novel for television Rich Man, Poor Man, its sequel, Rich Man, Poor Man Book II, and other TV films, such as the Emmy Award-winning miniseries drama The Law, with Judd Hirsch, as Jamaican defendant Maxwell Fall, and the Revolutionary War novel for TV, The Bastard, as Lucas, one of the legendary Minutemen, which is based on ...
Rich Man, Poor Man Book II is an American television miniseries that aired on ABC in one-hour episodes at 9:00pm ET/PT on Tuesday nights between September 21, 1976 and March 8, 1977. A sequel to Rich Man, Poor Man that had aired the previous season, it focused on the further exploits and conflicts of the Jordache family.
She was cast in the 1972 movie, The People, which reunited her with William Shatner from her Star Trek appearance. [9] She played the unhinged Virginia Calderwood in the first television miniseries, Rich Man, Poor Man in 1976. [6] Darby had the central role of Sally Farnham in the made-for-TV chiller Don't Be Afraid of the Dark (1973).
Rich Man, Poor Man is a 1969 novel by Irwin Shaw. It is the last of the novels of Shaw's middle period before he began to concentrate, in his last works such as Evening In Byzantium, Nightwork, Bread Upon The Waters and Acceptable Losses on the inevitability of impending death. The title is taken from the nursery rhyme "Tinker, Tailor".
The role earned Asner an Emmy Award, [20] as did the similarly dark role of Axel Jordache in the miniseries Rich Man, Poor Man (1976). In contrast, he played a former pontiff in the lead role of Papa Giovanni: Ioannes XXIII (Pope John XXIII 2002), an Italian television film for RAI. [21]
His other noted television miniseries credits include starring roles in Rich Man, Poor Man, its sequel Rich Man, Poor Man Book II, and Masada. Strauss played Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. in the 1977 TV movie Young Joe, the Forgotten Kennedy.