I Never Sang for My Father
A motion picture the whole world has taken to its heart.
Directed by Gilbert Cates
Produced by Janel Productions, Columbia Pictures
A deeply intimate family drama about the painful, unresolved tension between a son's need for independence and his emotional entanglement with an aging, demanding father.
A man living in the towering shadow of his aging father finds it difficult to start a new chapter in his life by marrying his girlfriend and moving to California.
Essence
Ensemble
Gene Hackman
Gene Garrison
Melvyn Douglas
Tom Garrison
Dorothy Stickney
Margaret Garrison
Estelle Parsons
Alice
Elizabeth Hubbard
Dr. Margaret 'Peggy' Thayer
Lovelady Powell
Norma
Daniel Keyes
Dr. Mayberry
Conrad Bain
Rev. Sam Pell
Jon Richards
Marvin Scott
Nikki Counselman
Waitress
Carol Peterson
1st Nurse
Sloane Shelton
2nd Nurse
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