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The Murder of Mary Phagan is a 1988 two-part American Television miniseries starring Jack Lemmon and dramatizing the true story of Leo Frank, a factory manager who was charged with murdering a 13-year-old girl, a factory worker named Mary Phagan, in Atlanta in 1913. His trial was sensational and controversial and at its end, Frank was convicted of murdering Mary Phagan and sentenced to death by hanging. After Frank's legal appeals failed, the governor of Georgia commuted his death sentence to life imprisonment on Monday, June 21, 1915, destroying his own career in the process. On the morning of Tuesday, August 17, 1915 Frank was kidnapped from prison and lynched by a small group of prominent men from Marietta, Georgia, Mary Phagan's home town.
Original Release
01/24/1988 on NBC
US Release
01/24/1988
Cast
Name | Character |
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Jack Lemmon | Gov. John Slaton |
Richard Jordan | Hugh Dorsey |
Robert Prosky | Tom Watson |
Peter Gallagher | Leo Frank |
Kathryn Walker | Sally Slaton |
Rebecca Miller | Lucille Frank |
Paul Dooley | William Burns |
Charles S. Dutton | Jim Conley |
Kevin Spacey | Wes Brent |
Cynthia Nixon | Doreen |
# | Title | Air Date |
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1 | Episode #1.1 | Sunday, 24 January 1988 |
2 | Episode #1.2 | Tuesday, 26 January 1988 |
Directors
Writers
George Stevens Jr., Jeffrey Lane, Larry McMurtry
Cast
Name | Character |
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Jack Lemmon | Gov. John Slaton |
Richard Jordan | Hugh Dorsey |
Robert Prosky | Tom Watson |
Peter Gallagher | Leo Frank |
Kathryn Walker | Sally Slaton |
Rebecca Miller | Lucille Frank |
Paul Dooley | William Burns |
Charles S. Dutton | Jim Conley |
Kevin Spacey | Wes Brent |
Cynthia Nixon | Doreen |
Kenneth Welsh | Luther Rosser |
Daniel Benzali | Coroner |
William C. Crawford | Witness |
Loretta Devine | Annie Maude Carter |
Barbara Eda-Young | Mrs. Phagan |
Sam Gray | Sigmond Montag |
Brent Jennings | Newt Lee |
William H. Macy | Randy |
Jordan Marder | Alonzo |
Nick Wyman | Lund |
Producers
Name | Role |
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George Stevens Jr. | Producer |
Caroline Stevens | Producer |
Editors
Year | Type | Category | Won |
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1989 | Golden Globe | Best Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television | Nominated |
1989 | Golden Globe | Best Performance by an Actor in a Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television | Nominated |
1988 | Emmy | Outstanding Editing for a Miniseries or a Special - Single Camera Production | Won |
1988 | Emmy | Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Special | Nominated |
1988 | Emmy | Outstanding Miniseries | Won |
1988 | Emmy | Outstanding Writing in a Miniseries or a Special | Nominated |
1988 | Emmy | Outstanding Sound Editing for a Miniseries or a Special | Won |