- Country: USA
- Genres: Biography, Drama
- Release: 1977-02-06
- Director: Jud Taylor
- Writers: Lane Slate
- Language: English
- Stars: Peter Boyle , John Forsythe , Heather Menzies-Urich , Burgess Meredith , Patricia Neal , Jean Stapleton , Philip Abbott , Wesley Addy , Ned Beatty , Karen Carlson
- Runtime: 145 min
- Awards: Won 2 Primetime Emmys. 2 wins & 4 nominations total
- AKA: Tail Gunner Joe (United States of America) , La chasse aux sorcières (Canada) , Tail Gunner Joe
- Plot: A dramatization of the life of Joe McCarthy, the alcoholic senator from Wisconsin whose tactics of accusing prominent people of Communist sympathies were initially designed to give him a national power base when he later planned to run for President.
- IMDB:tt0076794
Tail Gunner Joe Cast · · · ALL
Jud Taylor
Director
Peter Boyle
Joseph McCarthy
John Forsythe
Paul Cunningham
Burgess Meredith
Joseph Welch
Patricia Neal
Margaret Chase Smith
Jean Stapleton
Mrs. DeCamp
Ned Beatty
Sylvester
Philip Abbott
Scott Lucas
Wallace Rooney
Speaker
Heather Menzies-Urich
Logan
Wesley Addy
Middleton
Karen Carlson
Jean Kerr
John Carradine
Wisconsin Farmer
Charles Cioffi
Logan's Boss
Diana Douglas
Sarah
Andrew Duggan
Dwight Eisenhower
Henry Jones
Armitage
Murray Matheson
Publisher
Allan Miller
Pete
Tim O’Connor
Librarian
Alan Oppenheimer
Eisenhower Publicist
Addison Powell
General George C. Marshall
Andrew Prine
Peter Parker McNair Gates
John Randolph
Gen. Lampkin
Allan Rich
Ray Jenkins
William Schallert
Gen. Zwicker