In 1988, Seymour got the female lead in the twelve-part television miniseries.
Victoria Tennant as Pamela Tudsbury got the look, the act, but did not get awards.
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[War and Remembrance] is the continuation of the story from the miniseries The [Winds of War.] She played Natalie Henry, an American Jewish woman trapped in Europe during World War II.
That same year, she won an Emmy Award for playing Maria Callas in the television movie Onassis: The Richest Man in the World.
Jane Seymour OBE (born Joyce Penelope Wilhelmina Frankenberg; 15 February 1951) is an English actress. After making her screen debut as an uncredited extra in the 1969 musical comedy Oh! What a Lovely War, Seymour transitioned to leading roles in film and television, including a leading role in the television series The Onedin Line (1972–1973) and the role of psychic Bond girl Solitaire in the James Bond film Live and Let Die (1973).
War and Remembrance is an American miniseries based on the 1978 novel of the same name written by Herman Wouk. The miniseries, which aired from November 13, 1988, to May 14, 1989, covers the period of World War II from the American entry into World War II immediately after Pearl Harbor in December 1941 to the day after the bombing of the Japanese city of Hiroshima. It is the sequel to the 1983 miniseries The Winds of War, which was also based on one of Wouk's novels.
Plot[edit]
The television mini-series continues the story of the extended Henry family and the Jastrow family starting on December 15, 1941 and ending on August 7, 1945 and their life experiences during World War II.
Cast[edit]
- Robert Mitchum as Capt. Victor "Pug" Henry
- Jane Seymour as Natalie Henry
- Hart Bochner as Byron Henry
- Victoria Tennant as Pamela Tudsbury
- Brian Werner as Naval Aviator (acting debut)
- Polly Bergen as Rhoda Henry
- Sharon Stone as Janice Henry
- Sami Frey as Avram Rabinovitz
- William Schallert as Harry Hopkins
- Jeremy Kemp as Brig. Gen. Armin von Roon
- Steven Berkoff as Adolf Hitler
- Robert Hardy as Winston Churchill
- Zevi Wolmark as John Simms
- Topol as Berel Jastrow
- Ralph Bellamy as Franklin D. Roosevelt
- John Gielgud as Aaron Jastrow
- David Dukes as Leslie Slote
- E. G. Marshall as Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Barry Bostwick as Carter "Lady" Aster
- Ian McShane as Philip Rule
- John Rhys-Davies as Sammy Mutterperl
- Robert Morley as Alistair Tudsbury
- Peter Graves as Palmer Kirby
- Hardy Krüger as Field Marshal Erwin Rommel
- Bill Wallis as Werner Beck
- Michael Woods (actor) as Warren Henry
- Ian Jentle as Joseph Goebbels
- Michael Wolf (actor) as Hermann Goering
- Dieter Wagner (de) as Heinrich Himmler
- Robert Stephens as SS Major Karl Rahm
- Peter Vaughan as General Kurt Zeitzler
- Barry Morse as Col. Gen. Franz Halder
- Leslie Hope as Madeline Henry
- Eddie Albert as Breckinridge Long
- Sky du Mont as Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg
- Richard Dysart as Harry S. Truman
- Elizabeth Hoffman as First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt
- Lawrence Dobkin as General George S. Patton
- John Dehner as Admiral Ernest King
- Pat Hingle as Admiral William "Bull" Halsey
- William Prince as Admiral Chester W. Nimitz
- Mike Connors as Col. Harrison "Hack" Peters
- G. D. Spradlin as Admiral Raymond A. Spruance
- Brian Blessed as General Yevlenko
- Howard Duff as William Tuttle
- G. W. Bailey as Commander Jim Grigg
- R. G. Armstrong as General 'Moose' Fitzgerald
- Charles Lane as Admiral William Standley
- Norman Burton as General George Marshall
- George Murdock (actor) as General Leslie Groves
- Charles Napier as Lt. General Walter Bedell Smith
- Earl Hindman as Lt. Commander C. Wade McClusky
- Dennis Patrick as Admiral Mahlon Tisdale
- Eric Christmas as Admiral Sir Dudley Pound
- Nina Foch as Comtesse de Chambrun
- Günther Maria Halmer (de) as SS Lt. Colonel Rudolf Höss
- Milton Johns as SS Lt. Colonel Adolf Eichmann
- Wolfgang Reichmann as Martin Bormann
- Geoffrey Whitehead as Albert Speer
- John Malcolm as Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel
- Wolfgang Preiss as Field Marshal Walter von Brauchitsch
- Anthony Bate as Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt
- Kenneth Colley as SS Colonel Paul Blobel
- Clifford Rose as SS Lt. General Heinz Kammler
- Wolf Kahler as SS Major Anton Burger
- Michael Sarne as SS Captain Schwarz
- Velimir Bata ?ivojinovi? as Jewish partisan leader
- William Berger as Consul General Jim Gaither
- John Barrard as Oskar Friedman
- Jack Ging as Commander William Buracker
- Michael Madsen as Lt. 'Foof' Turhall
- William R. Moses as Lt. Cdr. Simon Anderson
- Christopher Malcolm as Bunky Thurston
- J. Kenneth Campbell as Commander Hoban (Devilfish)
- Matt Clark as Chief Clark (Northampton)
- Ian Abercrombie as Vice Admiral Rodney
- Mills Watson as Chief Derringer (Devilfish)
- Aubrey Morris as Father Martin
- Georges Corraface as Pascal Gaffori
- Barbara Steele as Elsa MacMahon
- Carl Duering as Dr. Karl Goerdeler
- Paul Glawion as Gen. Friedrich Paulus
- Burkhard Heyl as SS Lieutenant Greiser
- Joachim Hansen as Alfred Jodl
- Vernon Dobtcheff as Henri Bulle
- Rade Markovi? as SS Captain (Theresienstadt) (uncredited) (Episode 7)
- Demeter Bitenc as SS Captain (Train to Auschwitz) (uncredited) (Episode 11)
- Nikola Gec as SS Guard (Ukraine) (uncredited) (Episode 7)
- Zdenko Jel?i? as SS Sergeant (Ukraine) (uncredited) (Episode 7)
- Zvonimir Torjanac as Danish Red Cross Member (uncredited) (Episode 9)
- Bo?idar Smiljani? as Doctor (uncredited) (Episode 9)
Production[edit]
Development[edit]
War and Remembrance had a multi-year production timeline. It was, at the time, the most expensive single project in the history of filmed entertainment[1] and the most expensive single-story undertaking in United States television history. Costing $104 million ($253 million in 2021 dollars), it took over ABC's broadcast schedule for two one-week periods in 1988 and 1989, totaling 30 prime-time hours.
Up to that point, television had been dominated by the Big Three broadcasting networks in the United States, ABC, NBC and CBS. Shortly afterwards, cable television began the fragmentation of the United States broadcasting audience in earnest, leaving War and Remembrance the last of the giant miniseries. Miniseries had been major events on American television and ABC had produced some of the most seminal, under its ABC Novels for Television banner, including QB VII, Rich Man, Poor Man, Roots, Roots: The Next Generations, and Masada.
Because Herman Wouk was happy with Dan Curtis's 1983 ABC Novel for Television adaptation of The Winds of War, Wouk allowed Curtis to adapt the sequel novel as well. Curtis turned the project down at first, however. He feared it would be impossible to accomplish, even with virtually unlimited resources. Curtis worried that the massive naval battles could not be recreated, because so few WWII-era ships and planes still existed. More importantly, Curtis, who was Jewish, wondered how to do justice to the reality of the Holocaust, saying "to put on film the true horror was impossible. Once one false note sneaks in, you're gone. And, in my own eyes, I felt failing would be an absolute crime." Curtis credited his wife Norma with convincing him to take on the mammoth job, recounting that she told him "You'll kill yourself if someone else finishes this story."[2]
Paramount Television had produced The Winds of War at a cost of $40 million, $32 million of which was covered by ABC's licensing fee. However, Paramount decided not to produce the sequel and sold the rights to ABC, which produced the massive miniseries itself.[3] ABC first planned a $65 million, 20-hour series, but when they went to Curtis, he said he wanted to make a $100 million, 30-hour series, which they eventually greenlit.[4] There were also strict contractual restrictions on advertising that Herman Wouk had negotiated in 1977, before either miniseries aired. He had approval over all ads and required them not to disturb the narrative or to run under 30 seconds.[5] Wouk also refused to allow any advertising for personal care products, foods, or any other ABC programming.[6] Major eventual sponsors were Ford Motors, Nike, IBM, GE and American Express. In addition, Wouk required that certain Holocaust sequences run uninterrupted by commercials of any kind. ABC's standards and practices division also agreed to an unprecedented waiver allowing frontal nudity during the lengthy Holocaust sequences,[7] running parental advisories before any episodes beginning before 8pm.[4]