Movie
Grass Roots
Released: February 24, 1992 (1992)
Runtime: 155 minutes
Genres: Drama, Crime, Thriller, TV Movie
This sequel to the 1983 miniseries, "Chiefs," continues the saga of the Lee family with Will Lee, an ambitious Georgia lawyer running for the U.S. Senate at the same time he is forced by a local judge to defend a young man in a murder trial. On top of this, he becomes the target of an assassin hired by a white-supremacist organization.
Main Cast (Top 10 billed, oldest first)
- Raymond Burr as Judge Boggs
Age at release: 74
- Claude Akins as Sheriff Cox
Age at release: 65
- Katherine Helmond as Emma Carr
Age at release: 62
- Rod Taylor as Gen. Willoughby
Age at release: 62
- Herb Edelman as Manny Pearl
Age at release: 58
- John Glover as Harold Perkerson / Jason Ross
Age at release: 47
- Reginald VelJohnson as Det. Mickey Henderson
Age at release: 39
- Corbin Bernsen as Will Lee
Age at release: 37
- Mel Harris as Kate Rule
Age at release: 35
- James Wilder as Jerry Lomax
Age at release: 23
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- Henry Jones as Sen. Ben Carr
Age at release: 79
- Tim O'Connor as Billy Lee
Age at release: 64
- Fred Covington as Police Captain
Age at release: 63
- Julian Holloway as Elton Hunter
Age at release: 47
- Joanna Cassidy as Ann Heath
Age at release: 46
- Judson Vaughn as Ernest Jenkins
Age at release: 37
- Tom Nowicki as Tommy Newman
Age at release: 36
- Donna Biscoe as Lisa Conroy
Age at release: 36
- Christopher Murray as Jack Buchanan
Age at release: 34
- Donzaleigh Abernathy as Cora Mae Turner
Age at release: 34
- Cristi Conaway as Charlene Joiner
Age at release: 27
- Carlyle King as Suzy
Age at release: Unknown
- Michael H. Moss as Det. Sgt. Charlie Pittman
Age at release: Unknown
- Larry Black as Gov. Mack Dean
Age at release: Unknown
- David Dwyer as Deputy Bart
Age at release: Unknown
- C. Harrison Avery Jr. as Roosevelt Watkins
Age at release: Unknown
- Tracy L. Scruggs as Sarah Clark
Age at release: Unknown
- Edith Ivey as Mrs. Billy Lee
Age at release: Unknown
- Charles Lawlor as Dr. Albright
Age at release: Unknown
- James Mayberry as Frank
Age at release: Unknown