Daniel and the Towers

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Daniel and The Towers is a television film featuring the famous folk art masterpiece, the Watts Towers (located in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles), and their creator Simon Rodia's friendship with a 10-year-old neighborhood boy.

The story itself, and the friendship it describes, are fiction; however, Simon Rodia did build the towers. Some of the neighborhood situations that the film portrays are factually based.

Plot[]

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Cast[]

In Credits Order

Actor/Actress	Role(s)
	Daniel Guerra
Shawn Harrison	Sean
	Liko
Allan Arbus	Simon 'Sam' Rodia
Montrose Hagins	Hellen Littlefield
Carmen Zapata	Consuelo Guerra
Beulah Quo	Lynn Chow
Michael McKean	Wexler Hatch
Liam Sullivan	Commissioner
	Miss Williams
	Customer At Store
	Rude Vacho 1
	Rude Vacho 2
	Rude Vacho 3
John Outterbridge	Postman
	Commissioner's Assistant

Crew[]

Writers[]

In Alphabetical Order

• Anton Kline
• Jessie Nelson
• Camille Thomasson
• Stephen Tolkin

Producers[]

• Christopher Chase: Associate Producer
• Judith James: Producer (as Judith Rutherford James)
• Michael D. Pariser: Line Producer

Original Music[]

• Dennis Dreith

Cinematography[]

• Tom Hurwitz

Film Editing[]

• Norman Hollyn

Casting[]

• Vicki Hillman

Production Design[]

• John Ivo Gilles

Costume Design[]

• Heidi Freundlich Gilles (as Heidi Freundlich-Gilles)

Makeup Department[]

• Marietta Carter-Narcisse: Hair Assistant (as Marietta Carter)
• Marietta Carter-Narcisse: Makeup Assistant (as Marietta Carter)
• Robin Siegel: Hair Stylist
• Robin Siegel: Makeup Artist

Distribution Information[]

The drama, under the WonderWorks Family Movie tag, came to television in 1987 and was released on VHS in 1992 .

• Runtime: 61 min
• Country: United States
• Language: English
• Color: Color

Awards[]

The movie was nominated by the Young Artist Awards in 1988 as "Best Television Family Special, Movie of the Week or Variety Show" and was nominated for "Best Young Actor Starring in a Television Drama Special, Movie of the Week or Variety Show".

External links[]

• Daniel and the Towers at IMDb