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Blind Ambition (1979)

6.32h 0mWar & Politics — Drama

The Watergate crisis as viewed by John Dean and his wife Maureen, based on their personal accounts -- his best-seller, her book on how it affected their marriage -- and distilled into an eight-hour drama with all of the political figures of the day parading by as Dean relates his story to his attorney when his world, based on blind ambition, begins crashing down on him.

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Time-Life Television Productions

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Director: George Schaefer

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Martin Sheen as John Dean

Martin Sheen

John Dean

Theresa Russell as Maureeen Dean

Theresa Russell

Maureeen Dean

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Michael Callan

Charles Colson

Lonny Chapman as L. Patrick Gray

Lonny Chapman

L. Patrick Gray

William Daniels as G. Gordon Liddy

William Daniels

G. Gordon Liddy

Clifford David as Fred Fielding

Clifford David

Fred Fielding

Ed Flanders as Charles Shaffer

Ed Flanders

Charles Shaffer

Fred Grandy as Donald Segretti

Fred Grandy

Donald Segretti

Christopher Guest as Jeb Stuart Magruder

Christopher Guest

Jeb Stuart Magruder

Graham Jarvis as John Ehrlichman

Graham Jarvis

John Ehrlichman

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Edward Mallory

Henry Petersen

Gerald S. O'Loughlin as John J. 'Jack' Caufield

Gerald S. O'Loughlin

John J. 'Jack' Caufield

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