Undercover with the KKK

Undercover with the KKK
Genre	Drama
Based on	My Undercover Years with the Ku Klux Klan by Gary Thomas Rowe Jr.
Screenplay by
Directed by	Barry Shear
Starring	Don Meredith Ed Lauter Clifton James
Music by	Morton Stevens
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
Production
Executive producer
Producers	George Lehr
Production locations	Nevada City, California Roseville, California Sacramento, California
Cinematography
Editor
Running time	97 min
Production company	Columbia Pictures Television
Distributor	NBC
Release
Original network	NBC
Picture format	Color
Audio format	Mono
Original release	October 23, 1979 (1979-10-23)[1]

Undercover with the KKK is a 1979 NBC TV movie based on the autobiography My Undercover Years with the Ku Klux Klan by Gary Thomas Rowe Jr. and starring Don Meredith as Rowe.

Premise[]

The film tells the true story of Gary Thomas Rowe Jr., who infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan as an undercover agent and then testified as a key witness for the prosecution during the trial of several other Klansmen.^[2]

Cast[]

• Don Meredith as Gary Thomas Rowe Jr.
• Ed Lauter as Raleigh Porter
• Clifton James as Jimmy Eakin
• Albert Salmi as Lester Mitchell
• Michele Carey as Mary Beth Barker
• Lance LeGault as Weasel
• Margaret Blye as Billie Ruth Rowe
• Edward Andrews as Pat Murray
• Slim Pickens as Yancey Hicks
• James Wainwright as T.J. Barker
• Don "Red" Barry as Ben Wright
• as Roscoe Cobb
• Carl Lumbly as Reverend Lowell

References[]

External links[]

• Undercover with the KKK at IMDb

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