Citizen Cohn (1992)
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Frank Pierson's made-for-cable adaptation of Nicholas VonHoffman's biography, Citizen Cohn stars James Woods as the controversial lawyer Roy Cohn. The film is structured as a series of flashbacks while Cohn lies in a New York hospital dying of AIDS. In the 1940s and early '50s, Cohn… More Frank Pierson's made-for-cable adaptation of Nicholas VonHoffman's biography, Citizen Cohn stars James Woods as the controversial lawyer Roy Cohn. The film is structured as a series of flashbacks while Cohn lies in a New York hospital dying of AIDS. In the 1940s and early '50s, Cohn became one of the most powerful men in the country after becoming an important associate of Senator Joseph McCarthy (Joe Don Baker) and his Communist witch hunts. The film recounts those turbulent times and features portrayals of such real-life figures as J. Edgar Hoover (Pat Hingle), Dashiell Hammett (Frederic Forrest), Cardinal Spellman (Daniel Benzali), and Walter Winchell (Joseph Bologna). ~ Perry Seibert, Rovi
- Directed By
- Frank Pierson
- Genres
- Drama
R,
- In Theaters
- Aug 22, 1992 Wide
- On DVD
- Jul 10, 2001
- Studio
- HBO Video
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Cast
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James Woods
as Roy Marcus Cohn
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Joe Don Baker
as Senator Joseph McCarthy
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Lee Grant
as Dora
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Joseph Bologna
as Walter Winchell
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Ed Flanders
as Welch
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Pat Hingle
as Hoover
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Chuck Aber
as Senator McClellan
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Lamont Arnold
as Male Nurse
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Steve Aronson
as Judge Kaufman
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Daniel Benzali
as Cardinal Spellman
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Bernard Canepari
as New York Judge
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Sam Coppola
as Carmine Gelanti
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David Earle
as Chauffeur
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Tovah Feldshuh
as Iva Schlesinger
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John Finn
as Senator Charles Potter
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Frederic Forrest
as Hammett
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Frances Foster
as First Annie Lee Moss
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Allen Garfield
as Abe Feller
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David Marshall Grant
as Robert F. Kennedy
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Fanni Green
as Juror
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Joe Grifasi
as Gerald Walpin
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Karen Ludwig
as Ethel Rosenberg
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John McMartin
as Older Doctor
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Larry John Meyers
as Frank Raichle
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Zachary Mott
as Sam Garfield
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Novella Nelson
as Second Annie Lee Moss
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Jeffrey Nordling
as G. David Schine
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Joseph Scorsiani
as Milo Gandini
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Robin Thomas
as Reporter
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Daniel von Bargen
as Clyde Tolson
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Don Wadsworth
as English Reporter #2
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Rick Warner
as Robert Morgenthau Jr.
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Fritz Weaver
as Senator Everett Dirksen
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Peter Maloney
as Ray Kaplan
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John Seitz
as Army Secretary Stevens
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Josef Sommer
as Albert Cohn
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Lance Lewman
as Young Doctor
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Patricia Dunnock
as Female Nurse
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Kate Young
as French Reporter
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Daniel Hugh Kelly
as Congressman Neil Gallagher
