The supporting cast reads like a hall of fame reel: Rip Torn as ; Warren Oates as Major Welles ; Robert Vaughn, Geraldine Page, Paul Winfield, and Sterling Hayden as the fiery abolitionist John Brown. The series also features early appearances by actors like Kathleen Beller and Julia Duffy.
The sheer number of speaking parts—over 160 characters—and the employment of approximately 6,300 extras for battle sequences gave the series an unprecedented cinematic scale for television. The Blue and the Gray -1982- -multi sub- Civil ...
delivers a distinguished performance as Abraham Lincoln. The supporting cast reads like a hall of