The Civil War

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The Civil War (23-Sep-1990)

Director: Ken Burns

Writers: Ken Burns; Ric Burns; Geoffrey C. Ward

Name Occupation Birth Death Known for

Hoyt Axton Country Musician 25-Mar-1938 26-Oct-1999 Folk singer, songwriter, composer

Philip Bosco Actor 26-Sep-1930 American character actor

Colleen Dewhurst Actor 3-Jun-1924 2-Aug-1991 Murphy Brown's mother

Frederick Douglass Activist 7-Feb-1817 20-Feb-1895 Anti-slavery activist and autobiographer

Laurence Fishburne Actor 30-Jul-1961 The Matrix

Shelby Foote Author 17-Nov-1916 27-Jun-2005 Shiloh

Morgan Freeman Actor 1-Jun-1937 Unforgiven

Julie Harris Actor 2-Dec-1925 East of Eden

Jeremy Irons Actor 19-Sep-1948 Dead Ringers

Derek Jacobi Actor 22-Oct-1938 Claudius on I, Claudius

Garrison Keillor Radio Personality 7-Aug-1942 A Prairie Home Companion

David McCullough Historian 7-Jul-1933 The American Experience

Arthur Miller Playwright 17-Oct-1915 10-Feb-2005 Death of a Salesman

George Plimpton Author 18-Mar-1927 25-Sep-2003 Paper Lion

Jody Powell Government 30-Sep-1943 White House Press Secretary for Jimmy Carter

Pamela Reed Actor 2-Apr-1949 Gail Green on Jericho

Jason Robards Actor 26-Jul-1922 26-Dec-2000 All The President's Men

Studs Terkel Author 16-May-1912 Wrote working class book Working

M. Emmet Walsh Actor 22-Mar-1935 Grizzled character actor

Sam Waterston Actor 15-Nov-1940 Asst DA Jack McCoy on Law & Order

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