Captains and the Kings (1976 miniseries)

***Captains and the Kings*** is an eight-part television miniseries broadcast on NBC in 1976 as part of its *Best Sellers* anthology series. It is an adaptation of the 1972 novel *Captains and the Kings* by Taylor Caldwell. Like the novel, the miniseries is about an Irish American family, headed by ambitious Irish immigrant Joseph Armagh (played by Richard Jordan), which accumulates economic and political power during the 19th and early 20th centuries.

## Cast

* Richard Jordan - Joseph Armagh
* Harvey Jason - Harry Zieff
* Patty Duke - Bernadette Armagh nee Hennessey
* Blair Brown - Elizabeth Hennessey nee Healey
* Robert Vaughn - Charles Desmond
* Perry King - Rory Armagh
* Katherine Crawford - Mary 'Moira' Armagh
* Jane Seymour - Marjorie Armagh nee Chisholm
* Bernard Behrens - Gentleman
* Cynthia Sikes - Claudia Armagh nee Desmond
* Charles Durning - Ed Healey
* David Huffman - Sean Armagh
* Terry Kiser - Courtney Wickersham
* Vic Morrow - Tom Hennessey
* Barbara Parkins - Martinique
* Joanna Pettet - Katherine Hennessey
* Doug Heyes Jr. - Kevin Armagh
* Jenny Sullivan - Honora Armagh nee Houlihan
* Beverly D'Angelo - Miss Emmy
* Peter Donat - Clair Montrose
* Henry Fonda - Senator Enfield Bassett
* John Houseman - Judge Newell Chisholm
* Celeste Holm - Sister Angela
* Joe Kapp - Bill Strickland
* Ann Dusenberry - Anne-Marie
* Rod Haase - Roger Mace
* Charles H. Gray - Captain Calvin
* Charles O. Lynch - Hotel Clerk
* Roberta Storm - Mrs. Calvin
* Ray Bolger - R.J. Squibbs
* Neville Brand - O'Herlihy
* Sian Barbara Allen - Cara Leslie
* John Carradine - Father Hale
* Lee de Broux - President Theodore Roosevelt
* Robert Donner - Wounded Texan
* George Gaynes - Orestes Bradley
* Stefan Gierasch - Gannon
* Alan Hewitt - Governor Hackett
* Burl Ives - Old Syrup
* Cliff De Young - Brian Armagh
* John McLiam - Robert
* Clifton James - Governor Skerritt
* Roger Robinson - Corporal Lincoln Douglas
* Pernell Roberts - Colonel Elbert Braithwaite
* Ken Swofford - Captain Muldoon
* Ford Rainey - President Abraham Lincoln
* William Prince - Jay Regan
* Terence Locke - Faylen
* Richard Herd - Talmadge
* Mills Watson - Preston
* Walter O. Miles - Doctor
* Ann Sothern - Mrs. Finch
* Macon McCalman - Dolan
* James O'Connell - Orren Teale
* John Herbsleb - Young Courtney Wickersham
* Patrick Labyorteaux - Young Rory Armagh
* Leslie Simms - Mrs. Teale
* Sally Kirkland - Aggie
* Johnny Doran - Young Joseph Armagh
* Harvey Gold - Miles Lawrence
* George Skaff - Prosecutor
* John Dennis Johnston - Medical Orderly
* Ronald Long - Hotel Clerk
* Philip Bourneuf - Father Scanlon
* Edward Edwards - 1st Soccer Player
* Eldon Quick - Albert
* Kermit Murdock - James Spaulding
* Connie Kreski - Pearl Gray
* Elizabeth Cheshire - Young Bernadette Hennessey
* Randy Shields - 2nd Soccer Player
* Sean McClory - Boland
* William Bryant - Skeeter
* Sandy Ward - Louie
* William D. Gordon - Doctor Gill
* Barbara Morrison - Mrs. Whyte
* Ned Wilson - Van Cleve
* Norman Stuart - Swiss Gentleman
* Vincent Milana - 1st Striker
* John de Lancie - Timothy Armagh
* Stephen Coit - President William McKinley
* Sterling Swanson - Spokesman
* Ted Gehring - Heckler
* Patrick Whyte - English Gentleman
* Ben Wright - German Gentleman
* Todd Martin - Bensinger
* Byron Webster - Senator William Jennings Bryan
* Albert Carrier - French Gentleman
* Grant Owens - Captain O'Neill

**Rest of cast listed alphabetically:**

* Norman Bartold
* George Berkeley - Ryan
* Severn Darden - Plover
* Walt Davis
* Missy Gold - Mary Armagh as a Child
* Tracey Gold - Rosemary Armagh
* Duane Grey
* Fred Gwynne
* Martin Kove
* Richard Matheson - President James A. Garfield
* Kristopher Marquis - Sean, as a child
* Boyd 'Red' Morgan
* Bill Quinn - Dr. Harris Herbert
* Alex Sharp
* Woody Skaggs
* Jack Stryker
* June Whitley Taylor
* Giorgio Tozzi - Foreign Gentleman
* Brien Varady - Brian Armagh
* Alex Wipf
* Linda Kelsey - Peg (uncredited)
* Paul Koslo - Rufus (uncredited)