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Roots: The Gift

6.8 93 mins Drama   History   TV Movie   1988
David L. Wolper Productions   Warner Bros. Television  
Director(s): Kevin Hooks

Release Date: 11 Sun, Dec 1988

On Christmas Eve 1770, a young African warrior, who three years prior had been captured and sold into slavery in America, leads a desperate group of runaway slaves as they attempt to reach freedom in the North.

Casts of Roots: The Gift

LeVar Burton

as Kunta Kinte

Louis Gossett Jr.

as Fiddler

Avery Brooks

as Cletus Moyer

Kate Mulgrew

as Hattie Carraway

Shaun Cassidy

as Edmund Parker, Jr.

John McMartin

as Edmund Parker, Sr.

Jerry Hardin

as William Reynolds

Annabella Price

as Sarah Parker

Michael Learned

as Amelia Parker

Fran Bennett

as May

Tim Russ

as Marcellus

Jimmie F. Skaggs

as Scarvie

Brandy Brown

as Arabella

Maria Bryant

as Lilly

James McIntire

as Jubal

Lawrence Mandley

as Boatman

John Sherrod

as Driver #1

Karl Anthony Smith

as Gaunt Man

Donna Howell

as Elly

Billy Ray Reynolds

as Christopher

Michael Edwards

as Gentleman #1

Myke R. Mueller

as Gentleman #2

John Murray

as Bishop Wadley

Alex Haley

as Self - presenter

Bernard Peyton

as Jolly

Tina Andrews

as Aurelia (archive footage) (uncredited)

Robert Goldman

as Horseman (uncredited)

Debra Perry

as Slave Girl (uncredited)

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