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"American Experience" The Donner Party (TV Episode 1992) Poster

Full Cast & Crew

Directed by 

Ric Burns

Writing Credits (in alphabetical order)  

Ric Burns ... (writer)

Cast (in credits order)  

David McCullough ... Self - Narrator (voice)
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
J.D. Cannon ... (voice)
Timothy Hutton ... (voice)
Gene Jones ... (voice)
Amy Madigan ... (voice)
Donal McCann ... (voice)
George Plimpton ... (voice)
Paul Roebling Paul Roebling ... (voice)
Lois Smith ... (voice)
Frances Sternhagen ... (voice)
Eli Wallach ... George McKinstry (voice)

Produced by 

Lisa Ades ... producer
Ric Burns ... producer
Matthew Butcher ... associate producer
Judy Crichton ... executive producer
Margaret Drain ... executive producer
Larry LeCain ... field producer
Bob M. McCausland ... field producer
Susan Mottau ... coordinating producer
Chas Norton ... field producer
Mark Samels ... senior producer
Joseph Tovares ... series editor

Music by 

Brian Keane

Cinematography by 

Allen Moore
Buddy Squires

Editing by 

Bruce Shaw

Production Design by 

Alison Kennedy ... series designer
Chris Pullman ... series designer

Production Management 

Frank Capria ... post-production supervisor
Mari Lou Granger ... unit manager

Sound Department 

Ed Barteski ... assistant sound editor (as Edward Barteski Jr.)
Lee Dichter ... re-recording mixer
Steve Longstreth ... sound recordist
Roger Sherman ... sound recordist
Ira Spiegel ... sound editor
Buddy Squires ... sound recordist
Lou Verrico ... sound recordist: voiceovers

Visual Effects by 

John Alagna ... titles & opticals
Dave Pultz ... colorist

Camera and Electrical Department 

Salvatore Raciti ... gaffer

Animation Department 

George Davis ... animation photographer

Editorial Department 

Rebecca Barnes ... post-production assistant
Ed Barteski ... assistant editor (as Edward Barteski Jr.)
Doug Martin ... on-line editor
Noëlle Penraat ... negative matcher
Dan Watson ... on-line editor
Christopher White ... assistant editor

Music Department 

Ron Bach ... music mixing engineer
Michael Bacon ... series theme adaption
John Boswell ... musician: piano
William Galison ... musician: harmonica
Brian Keane ... music arranger / musician: guitar and sythesizer
Kenneth Kosek ... musician: fiddle
Charles Kuskin ... music theme
Eric Weissberg ... musician: banjo

Additional Crew 

John E. Allen ... opticals
Johanna Baker ... publicist
Randall Balsmeyer ... map animation
Chet Bridgeman ... intern
Norman Cohen ... intern
Judy Crichton ... executive consultant
John Dowdell ... film-to-tape transfer
Nancy Farrell ... project administrator
Donald L. Hardesty ... consultant
Thomas G. Hunt ... consultant
Joseph A. King ... consultant
James Madden ... title designer (as Jim Madden)
Jim Madden ... title designer
Merrill J. Mattes ... consultant
Patricia Nelson Limerick ... consultant
Daphne B. Noyes ... publicist
Helen R. Russell ... project administrator
Ann Scott ... project administrator
Richard Snow ... senior creative consultant
Wallace Stegner ... consultant
Geoffrey C. Ward ... senior creative consultant

See also

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