Power

Power

240 mins | Drama, TV Movie | Jan. 14, 1980

Loosely based on the life of Jimmy Hoffa, this traces the rise of Tommy Vanda (Joe Don Baker) from a Chicago dock worker to an influential labor leader who, like Hoffa, finds himself behind bars in a federal prison, and not long after, taken for a ride by shady men never to be seen again.

Power

240 mins | Drama, TV Movie | Jan. 14, 1980

Power
Loosely based on the life of Jimmy Hoffa, this traces the rise of Tommy Vanda (Joe Don Baker) from a Chicago dock worker to an influential labor leader who, like Hoffa, finds himself behind bars in a federal prison, and not long after, taken for a ride by shady men never to be seen again.
Producers Columbia Pictures Television, David Gerber Productions
Original title Power
Directors Barry Shear, Virgil W. Vogel
Writers Ernest Tidyman

Cast

Joe Don Baker

as Tommy Vanda

Karen Black

as Rose Vanda-Buchanan

David Groh

as Tony Guidice

Howard Da Silva

as Jack Eisenstadt

Tom Atkins

as Buck Buchanan

Scott Brady

as Armstrong

Victor Jory

as Hillman

Brian Keith

as Charles Kandell

Suzanne Lederer

as Catherine

William Lucking

as Sham Murphy

John Quade

as Loading Dock Foreman

Joe Santos

as Arthur 'Art' Konigsburg

Laraine Stephens

as Norma Greer

Paul Stewart

as Vince Ianelli

Jo Van Fleet

as Mother Vanda

Ralph Bellamy

as Ben Frelinghuysen

Red Buttons

as Solly Weiss

Jacques Aubuchon

as Robins

William Kirby Cullen

as Bobby Vanda

Lee Delano

as Fred Goff

John Durren

as Dan Feldon

Sean Garrison

as Tex

Kevin Hagen

as Paul Hackett

Brett Halsey

as Prosecutor

Victor Holchak

as Lonny

Brian Kerwin

as Jack Vanda

Lance LeGault

as Stevens

Byron Morrow

as Harry Bliss

Don Reid

as Faraday

Joseph Ruskin

as Bill Davis

Walter Barnes

as Al Grove

Frederic Downs

as Old-Timer

Bess Gatewood

as Receptionist

Jean Holloway

as Mrs. Goff

David Levy

as Carl Biaggi

Johnny Alpaugh

as Bobby Vanda at Age 10

Samantha McCoy

as Secretary

Michael Mullins

as Sean Murphy

Than Wyenn

as Judge

Don Furneaux

as Driver

Judie Carroll

as Secretary

Tom Regan

as Detective #2

Bill Jelliffe

as Britt - FBI Man

Andrew Masset

as Felton

Tony Ramirez

as Sean Murphy at Age 10