
The Man
It took an accident to make this man President of the United States. What they do to him now won't be an accident.
1972 en 93 minutes
Rating: 6.3
Plot
When the President and Speaker of the House are killed in a building collapse, and the Vice-President declines the office due to age and ill-health, Senate President pro tempore Douglas Dilman (James Earl Jones) suddenly becomes the first black man to occupy the Oval Office. The events from that day to the next election when he must decide if he will actually run challenge his skills as a politician and leader.
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Cast

James Earl Jones
Douglass Dilman

Martin Balsam
Jim Talley

Burgess Meredith
Senator Watson

Lew Ayres
Noah Calvin

William Windom
Arthur Eaton

Barbara Rush
Kay Eaton

Georg Stanford Brown
Robert Wheeler

Janet MacLachlan
Wanda

Martin E. Brooks
Wheeler's Lawyer

Simon Scott
Hugh Gaynor

Patric Knowles
South African Consul

Robert DoQui
Webson

Anne Seymour
Ma Blore

Jack Benny
Jack Benny

Edward Faulkner
Secret Service Man

Gilbert Green
Congressman Hand

Lew Brown
Gilbert

Philip Bourneuf
Chief Justice Williams

Reginald Fenderson
Reverend Otis Waldren

Elizabeth Ross
Mrs. Smelker

Barry Russo
Haley

Garry Walberg
Pierce

Ted Hartley
Press Secretary

Charles Lampkin
Congressman Walding

Lawrence Cook
Congressman Steller

Vince Howard
Congressman Eckworth

Leonard Stone
Congressman Parmel

Howard K. Smith
Howard K. Smith

Bill Lawrence
Self