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It's Good to Be Alive

6.6 100 mins Drama   TV Movie   1974
Metromedia Producers Corporation  
Director(s): Michael Landon

Release Date: 22 Fri, Feb 1974

This movie details the struggles of former Brooklyn Dodger catcher Roy Campanella to adapt to life in a wheelchair following his crippling automobile accident in 1959. Cinematographer Ted Voigtlander was Emmy-nominated.

Casts of It's Good to Be Alive

Paul Winfield

as Roy Campanella

Louis Gossett Jr.

as Sam Brockington

Ruby Dee

as Ruth Campanella

Ramon Bieri

as Walter O'Malley

Ketty Lester

as Roy Campanella's Mother

Julian Burton

as Dr. Rusk

Lloyd Gough

as Surgeon

Eric Scott Woods

as Roy Campanella as a Boy

Joe De Santis

as Roy Campanella's Father

Len Lesser

as Man at Accident

Ty Henderson

as David Campanella

Matthew Beard

as Stymie

Joe E. Tata

as 'Pee Wee' Reese

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