The Fifties (1997) | Full Cast

Alex Gibney

DIRECTOR

Tracy Dahlby

DIRECTOR

Susan Motamed

DIRECTOR

Edward Herrmann

Narrator

David Halberstam

Self

B.B. King

Self

John Chancellor

Self

Jane Stern

Self - Author

Mickey Spillane

Self - Author

Allen Ginsberg

Self

Pete Hamill

Self - Writer

Jules Feiffer

Self - Cartoonist

Edward Teller

Self - Scientist

Stuart Samuels

Self - Filmmaker

Dan Wakefield

Self - Journalist

Sam Phillips

Self - Record Producer

Richard Rhodes

Self

Jack Anderson

Self - Journalist

Frank Gibney

Self - Journalist

Robert Serber

Self - Nuclear Physicist

Kensinger Jones

Self

Sophie Morris

Self

Bernice Burnett

Self

Eugene Burnett

Self

Jess Uzwy

Self

Philip Morris

Self

Carlos Rodriguez

Self - Korean War Vet

John Service

Self - US Foreign Service, Persecuted by McCarthy

Steve Buczak

Self

George Reedy

Self - Journalist

Kathleen Brindley

Self

Edward McCabe

Self - Korean War Vet

Cynthia Dale

Grace Metalious

Fisher Stevens

Jack Kerouac (Readings from On The Road)

Guy Williams

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Tracey Ullman

Self

Dinah Shore

Self - Blows KissarchiveFootage

John Kenneth Galbraith

Self

Sloan Wilson

Self (author)

Alfred Leslie

Self (painter, filmmaker)

Elizabeth Taylor

Self (marries)uncredited,archiveFootage

Lauren Bacall

Self (concerned about HUAC)uncredited,archiveFootage

Marilyn Monroe

Self (with GIs in Korea)uncredited,archiveFootage

Grace Kelly

Self (weds Rainier)uncredited,archiveFootage

Humphrey Bogart

Self (concerned about HUAC)uncredited,archiveFootage

Rita Hayworth

Sadie Thompsonuncredited,archiveFootage

Elvis Presley

Selfuncredited,archiveFootage

Carl Reiner

Self (in RCA TV ad)uncredited,archiveFootage

Mike Nichols

Self (in Nichols & May sketch)uncredited,archiveFootage

Danny Kaye

Self (concerned about HUAC)uncredited,archiveFootage

George Harrison

Self (leaves plane)uncredited,archiveFootage

Elaine May

Self (in Nichols & May sketch)uncredited,archiveFootage

Ringo Starr

Self (leaves plane)uncredited,archiveFootage

John Lennon

Selfuncredited,archiveFootage

Paul McCartney

Self (leaves plane)uncredited,archiveFootage

Alice Pearce

Self (in girdle ad)uncredited,archiveFootage

Hugh Hefner

Selfuncredited,archiveFootage

Gene Autry

Self (at the microphone)uncredited,archiveFootage

Richard Nixon

Self (HUAC, with Thomas)uncredited,archiveFootage

Fidel Castro

Selfuncredited,archiveFootage

Prince Rainier of Monaco

Self (weds Grace)uncredited,archiveFootage

Frank Gifford

Self (in razor ad)uncredited,archiveFootage

Jack Kerouac

Selfuncredited,archiveFootage

Hank Williams

Self (sings Hey Good Lookin')uncredited,archiveFootage

Duke Ellington

Selfuncredited,archiveFootage

Mohammad Reza Pahlavi

Misidentification (of Mohammed Mossadegh)uncredited,archiveFootage

Jackson Pollock

Self (dribbles paint)uncredited,archiveFootage

Dizzy Gillespie

Self (with his band, 1949)uncredited,archiveFootage

Fats Domino

Selfuncredited,archiveFootage

Frankie Lymon

Self (with the Teenagers)uncredited,archiveFootage

Thelonious Monk

Self (plays)uncredited,archiveFootage

Charlie Parker

Self (plays with Dizzy)uncredited,archiveFootage

John Howard Lawson

Self (testifies before HUAC)uncredited,archiveFootage

Margaret Sanger

Self (interviewed by Mike Wallace)uncredited,archiveFootage

Grace Metalious

Self (interviewed by Joyce Davidson)uncredited,archiveFootage

Margaret Truman

Self (sees Truman take oath, 1945)uncredited,archiveFootage

Harold L. Ickes

Self (sees Truman take oath, 1945)uncredited,archiveFootage

Mohammed Mossadegh

Self (in military uniform, wears glasses)uncredited,archiveFootage

Alfred Kinsey

Selfuncredited,archiveFootage

Sam Rayburn

Self (sees Truman take oath, 1945, behind Judge Stone)uncredited,archiveFootage

John H. Bradley

Self (raises flag on Iwo Jima)uncredited,archiveFootage

Elizabeth Eckford

Self (attends Little Rock school under guard)uncredited,archiveFootage

Joyce Davidson

Self (interviews Grace Metalious)uncredited,archiveFootage

Harlan F. Stone

Self (administers oath to Truman, 1945)uncredited,archiveFootage

Syngman Rhee

Self (with MacArthur)uncredited,archiveFootage

William D. Leahy

Self (sees Truman take oath, 1945)uncredited,archiveFootage

Bess Truman

Self (sees Truman take oath, 1945)uncredited,archiveFootage

Joseph W. Martin Jr.

Self (sees Truman take oath, 1945)uncredited,archiveFootage

Fred M. Vinson

Self (sees Truman take oath, 1945)uncredited,archiveFootage

Edward R. Stettinius Jr.

Self (sees Truman take oath, 1945)uncredited,archiveFootage

Francis Biddle

Self (sees Truman take oath, 1945)uncredited,archiveFootage

Franklin Sousley

Self (raises flag on Iwo Jima)uncredited,archiveFootage

J. Parnell Thomas

Self (HUAC)uncredited,archiveFootage

Gregory Pincus

Self (at the microscope)uncredited,archiveFootage