Stars
Peter Finch: Oscar-winning Australian Actor/In UK
Faye Dunaway: Oscar winning american actress, NETWORK
William Holden: American actor, STALAG 17, SUNSET BOULEVARD, NETWORK
Robert Duvall: American Actor/Director
Wesley Addy: American actor, HUSH, HUSH SWEET CHARLOTTE
Ned Beatty: American character actor
Beatrice Straight: American Character Actress, NETWORK (1976)
Arthur Burghardt:
Bill Burrows:
Jordan Charney: American TV/Film Actor
Kathy Cronkite:
Ed Crowley:
Jerome Dempsey:
Conchata Ferrell: American actress, TWO AND A HALF MEN
Gene Gross:
Stanley Grover:
Cindy Grover:
Darryl Hickman: American TV/Film Actor
Mitchell Jason:
Paul Jenkins:
Ken Kercheval: American TV/Film Actor
Kenneth Kimmins:
Lynn Klugman:
Carolyn Krigbaum:
Zane Lasky:
Michael Lombard: Actor/Australian?
Pirie MacDonald:
Russ Petranto:
Bernie Pollack: Costume Designer
Roy Poole: American Actor
William Prince: American Supporting Actor
Sasha Von Sherler:
Lane Smith: American Character Actor
Ted Sorel: Actor
Fred Stuthman:
Cameron Thomas:
Marlene Warfield: Supporting Actress
Lydia Wilson:
Lee Richardson: Actor
Michael Lipton: Score Composer
Director
Sidney Lumet: American director/producer
Producer
Howard Gottfried: Producer/Executive
Screenwriter
Paddy Chayefsky: Screenwriter, Novelist, Playwright, NETWORK, ALTERED STATES
Composer
Elliot Lawrence: American Composer
Editor
Alan Heim: American Editor
Review 1:
"...A vicious, exaggerated satire which aims for barbed black humour over belly laughs....[With a] sharp screenplay..."
Source: Total Film
p.110 09/01/2000
Review 2:
"Finch won a posthumous Oscar for his all-over-the-map portrayal of Beale."
Source: Premiere
p.62 04/01/2004
Review 3:
"NETWORK is the perfect meeting of director and screenplay....Lumet and Chayefsky's real achievement is the subtle escalation of the drama..."
Source: Empire
p.177 10/01/2008
Review 4:
4 stars out of 4 -- "If movies can tell the future, then this 1976 harbinger about a major network's calculated and deranged ratings grab is right on time."
Source: Rolling Stone
p97 03/09/2006