Crisis at Central High (1981)
February 4, 1981Release Date
Crisis at Central High (1981)
February 4, 1981Release Date
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Cast & Crew.
Joanne Woodward
Elizabeth Huckaby
Charles Durning
Jess Matthews
Henderson Forsythe
Glenn Huckaby
Calvin Levels
Ernest Green
William Russ
J.O. Powell
Tamu Blackwell
Caroline Fuller
Shannon John
Donna Kirby
Bill Morey
Virgil Blossom
Tony Frank
Hildebrand
John William Galt
Mr. Kirby
Robert Ginnaven
General Thomas Woods
Lori Grupe
Marlene
Irma P. Hall
Lulu Richards
Jerry Haynes
General
Rosanna Huffman
Mrs. Farrow
Suzie Humphreys
Mrs. Kirby
Ray LePere
George Truitt
Pat Long
Billie Hobbs
Riona Martin
Carlotta Walls
Bonnie Pemberton
Maggie Armstrong
Regina Taylor
Minniejean Brown
Annabelle Weenick
Dorothy Truitt
Nina Wilson
Miss Pettijohn
Norma Young
Miss Opie
Mark D. Andrews
Soldier
Jerry Biggs
Bigot
Tad Black
Charles Taggard
Scott Campbell
Lenny Bell
Gary Lee Cavagnaro
Thug
Rex Cumming
Wagner
Beau Hughey
Bigot
Michael R. Keane
Student
Ben Stephenson
Ben
Lynette Walden
Student
Susan Williams
Student
James Healy Jr.
Hoodlum (uncredited)
William B. Jones
Reporter (uncredited)
Michael Minton
Student (uncredited)
Jess Sherman
Student (uncredited)
Lamont Johnson
Director
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Crisis at Central High is a 1981 made-for-television movie about the Little Rock Integration Crisis of 1957, based on a draft of the memoir by the same name by former assistant principal Elizabeth Huckaby.William Link and Richard Levinson wrote the screenplay and were executive producers together with David Susskind of Time-Life Productions. The film starred Joanne Woodward as Huckaby and told the events from that character's point of view, although one obituary at the time of Huckaby's death cited her as saying the TV-movie enlarged her role. Woodward was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or a Special and a Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for TV, in 1981 and 1982 respectively.