"John Adams" quotes

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The life of one of the USA's Founding Fathers, its second President, and his role in the nation's first 50 years.

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Year: 2008
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ImdbRating: 8.5
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Released: 16 Mar 2008
Awards: Won 13 Primetime Emmys. 51 wins & 38 nominations total

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Cast

John Adams - Paul Giamatti
Abigail Adams - Laura Linney
Benjamin Rush - John Dossett
Thomas Jefferson - Stephen Dillane
Nabby Adams - Sarah Polley
Thomas Adams - Samuel Barnett
George Washington - David Morse
Colonel William Smith - Andrew Scott
Samuel Adams - Danny Huston
John Quincy Adams - Ebon Moss-Bachrach
Young John Quincy Adams - Steven Hinkle
Young Nabby Adams - Madeline Taylor
Sally Smith Adams - Mamie Gummer
Charles Adams - Kevin Trainor
Benjamin Franklin - Tom Wilkinson
Young Charles Adams - Michael Hall D'Addario
Alexander Hamilton - Rufus Sewell
John Hancock - Justin Theroux
Madame Helvétius - Judith Magre
Robert Treat Paine - Brennan Brown
Elbridge Gerry - Tom Beckett
Second Dutch Banker - Jules Croiset
Dutch Man - Sieger Sloot
First Dutch Banker - Lex van Delden
John Dickinson - Zeljko Ivanek
Timothy Pickering - John Keating
Young Thomas Adams - Thomas Langston
Attorney General Charles Lee - Timmy Sherrill
Bostonian Townsperson - Lucas N. Hall
Boston Citizen - James Judice
Sons of Liberty - Tim Seip
Richard Palmes - John Bedford Lloyd
King George III - Tom Hollander
Comte de Vergennes - Jean-Hugues Anglade
Captain Preston - Ritchie Coster
Jonathan Sewall - Guy Henry
Captain John Tucker - Neal Huff
Louisa Catherine Adams - Caroline Corrie
Robert Goddard - Boris McGiver
Edward Rutledge - Clancy O'Connor
Edmund Charles Genet - Cyril Descours
John Trumbull - Buzz Bovshow
Dutch Doctor - Jerome Aarts
Reverend Whitney - Tom Mannion
Admiral D'Estaing - Jean Brassard
Francis Dana - Pip Carter
Justice Lynde - Bill Buell
Sally Hemmings - Lizan Mitchell
William Maclay - Alan Cox
James Duane - Ed Jewett
Master of Ceremonies - Dominic Borrelli
Monticello Servant - Ken Peebles
Andrew Holmes - Vincent Renart
Lord Carmarthen - Bertie Carvel
General Henry Knox - Del Pentecost
Monticello Doctor - Andy Prosky
First Mourner - Melissa Blue
Thomas Pinckney - Hugh O'Gorman
Peacefield Doctor - Crispin Redman
King Louis XVI - Damien Jouillerot
First Boston Local - Jim Carmalt
First Senator - Curzon Dobell
Patsy Jefferson - Pamela Stewart
Esther Sewall - Cheyenne Casebier
New Hampshire Delegate - James K. Boykin
Edward Bancroft - Sean McKenzie
Robert R. Livingston - Alex Draper
Third Senator - Aaron Michael Lacey
Maryland Delegate - Robert Randolph Caton
Second Mourner - Chris Clabo
The Magistrate - Murray McArthur
Duke of Dorset - Julian Firth
Congressional Secretary - Michael Countryman
James Forrest - Dara Coleman
Lieutenant Barron - Derek Milman
Servant - Afemo Omilami
Maitre d'Hotel - Marc-Antoine Goulard
Richard Henry Lee - Paul Fitzgerald
Bosun - Tim L. Smith
Senate Secretary - Matt Ryb
Man in Crowd - Stephen A. Siegfried
Apprentice's Father - Jimmy R. Fowler
Smallpox Doctor - Ford Flannagan
Second Senator - Ean Sheehy
Female Slave - Roxanne Fox
Second Post Rider - Steven Overman
Jury Foreman - John Joseph Gallagher
Wounded Militiaman - Rick Forrester
Jean-Antoine Houdon - Patrice Valota
Baby Thomas Adams - Carter Godwin
French Surgeon - Max Van Bel
Second Boston Local - Isaac Gay
Jail Guard - Brett Gentile
Grieving Son - Steven Green
Male Slave - Robert X. Golphin
Chevalier de la Luzerne - Nicolas Vaude
North Carolina Delegate - Steve Hurwitz
Matthew Kilroy - Tripp Green
New Jersey Delegate - Raymond H. Johnson
Master Gunner - Eric Alan Wisbith
General Warren - Sean Mahan
Customs Man - Joe Hickey
Stephen Hopkins - John O'Creagh
Court Clerk - Quentin Kerr
Caesar Rodney - Tim Parati
Rope Walker - Mark Jeffrey Miller
Grieving Father - Mark Scarboro
Apprentice - Justin Phillips
Connecticut Delegate - Greg Smith
Third Mourner - Rose Powhatan
Fourth Mourner - Mike Shiflett
Post Rider - Tommy Mack Turvey
Georgia Delegate - Bill Ward
First Rope Walker - Justin Smith
Thomas McKean - Eric Zuckerman
Second Wharf Local - Michael Tourek
Apprentice - Sam Trueman
Third Boston Local - Charles Wise
Apprentice - William Yelton
Hugh Montgomery - Harry Zittel
NC Senator - Jeffro
Post Rider - Tommie Turvey
Senator of Massachusetts - Greg Pronko
White House Construction Foreman - John Curran
Redcoat Defendant #1 - Jeremy Ambler
White House Servant - Charisse Matthews
Merchant - Dan Taylour
Boston Local - Austin Zajur
Boston Townsperson - Patrick Michael Strange
Boston Citizen - Sean LeeRoy
Bostonian Townsperson - Juan Eloy Carrera
2 episodes, 2008 - Robert Rice
Red Coat - Chris Gulluscio
Oliver Wolcott, Jr. - Jason Butler Harner
James McHenry - Zak Orth
John Marshall - Jack Gwaltney
Man in crowd - Robert Shepherd
John Carter - Andrew McKeough
British Redcoat - Michael Carey
Benjamin Harrison - Ken McNaughton
U. S. Senator (Unite Or Die) - Tex Allen
PA Delegate - Walt Smith
Stone Mason - Dan Delafield
Boston Lady - Eleanor Drew
Sons of Liberty Horseman - Kevyn Settle
Bostonian Townsperson - Tamara Johnson
French Elite Woman - Natalie Christina
Juror - Jeff Elmore
Additional Washington's Servant - Tarnee Kendell Hudson
New Hampshire Delegate - Nick Ventura
Native American Warrior - Ginew Benton
Militiaman - Ed Mantell
South Carolina Delegate - Christopher Allison
George Read - Douglas Nelson
Grieving Mother - Rachel Streater
New Jersey Delegate - Kerry Meushaw
Congressman - Paul W. Carroll
Senator - Karl Bittner
Extra - Rob Cavedo
Woman of the Mob - Lynne Forgette
Redcoat Defendant #2 - Jarrett Spencer
President's House Slave Worker - Aisha Renée Moore
Artillery Engineer - Sam Ricco