The Paper Chase (1978)
The Paper Chase (1978)
Network & Production Companies
Plot.
Critically lauded drama about the life and pressures of a group of students at a prestigious Eastern law school, with a strict and domineering contract-law professor named Charles Kingsfield, who alternately inspires and terrifies the students.
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Cast & Crew.
John Houseman
Charles Kingsfield
James Stephens
James T. Hart
Lainie Kazan
Rose Samuels
Penny Johnson Jerald
Vivian Conway
Charles Hallahan
Ernie
Peter Nelson
Tom Ford
Stanley DeSantis
Gagarian
Diana Douglas
Prof. Tyler
Robert Ginty
Thomas Craig Anderson
Michael Tucci
Gerald Golden
Betty Harford
Mrs Nottingham
Francine Tacker
Elizabeth Logan
James Keane
Willis Bell
James Bridges
Creator / Writer
Jonathan Segal
Jonathan Brooks
Albert Aley
Producer
Deka Beaudine
Asheley Brooks
Tom Fitzsimmons
Franklin Ford III
Robert Lewin
Producer
Robert C. Thompson
Executive Producer / Director
Andra Millian
Laura Kiernan
Clare Kirkconnell
Rita Harriman
Robert Krimmer
Martin Zeiss
James Hassinger
Set Decoration
Jack Bender
Director
Alex March
Director
Philip Leacock
Director
Joseph Pevney
Director
Alf Kjellin
Director
Corey Allen
Director
Joseph Hardy
Director
Gwen Arner
Director
Mark Cullingham
Director
Arthur Allan Seidelman
Director
Paul Laurence
Executive Story Editor
Lee Kalcheim
Writer
Irv Pearlberg
Writer
John Jay Osborn Jr.
Writer
Stacey Nelkin
Tracy Ford
Robert Karvelas
Beerman
Mark Schubb
Sims
Erich Anderson
Steve Williamson
Allan Miller
Herb Soloway
Steven Peterman
Soloway
Deborah Harmon
Darleen Carr
Robert Reed
Lynn Swann
Media.
Details.
Release Date
September 9, 1978
Status
Ended
Seasons
4
Episodes
58
Running Time
1h
Genres
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This TV Show Is About.
law school
strict teacher
Scripted
Wiki.
The Paper Chase is a 1978 American drama television series based on the 1971 novel of the same title by John Jay Osborn Jr., and a 1973 film adaptation. It follows the lives of law student James T. Hart and his classmates at an unnamed law school, modeled on Harvard Law School.
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