Friendly Fire
Friendly Fire
Release: 1980-11-09
·Runtime: 147m
·★ 7.5
Drama
War
TV Movie
In March 1970, a U.S. Army officer arrived at the Iowa farm of Peg and Gene Mullen and informed them that their son Michael had been killed in Vietnam by "friendly fire." Their determined attempts to learn more about the circumstances of their son's death are the subject of this true account film.
Production Countries
United States of America
United Kingdom
Production Companies
Marble Arch Productions
ABC
Cast
Carol Burnett
as Peg Mullen
Ned Beatty
as Gene Mullen
Dennis Erdman
as Michael E. Mullen
Sherry Hursey
as Patricia Mullen
Timothy Hutton
as John Mullen
Steve Bonino
as Cactus
Henry Brown
Hilly Hicks
as Willis Huddleston
John Hillner
Kevin Hooks
as Polk
David Keith
as Leroy Hamilton
Dan Shor
as Prince
Mark L. Taylor
as Capt. Bannock
Bernard Behrens
as Dietrich
Jorge Cervera Jr.
William Jordan
as Col. Byron Schindler
Joseph G. Medalis
Jack Rader
as Sgt. Fitzgerald
Vernon Weddle
as Col. Georgi
Phillip R. Allen
as Ralph Jenner
Nicolas Coster
as Carl
Charles Cyphers
as Tom Loomis
Macon McCalman
Sierra Pecheur
as Mrs. Hamilton
Ford Rainey
as Mr. Hamilton
Sam Waterston
as C.D.B. Bryan
Norman Bartold
William Bogert
Mary Gregory
Jerry Hardin
Warren Munson
Wyatt Knight
as (uncredited)