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Woody Harrelson and Justin Theroux lead an ensemble cast as Hunt and Liddy. Below, a who's who of White House Plumbers and how they compare to their real-life counterparts. The Cubans were members of the Watergate break-in team that all had ties to working with Hunt during his time at the CIA.
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I don’t know that she was the kind of patriot that Woody [Harrelson, who plays E. Gordon Liddy] are portraying, but somehow it seems to me that her interest was more to benefit herself at the time. Here, the actress explains why Watergate never gets old, how her own history helped inform her performance, and the worst parts of revisiting the 1970s. “Those that fail to learn from history,” Winston Churchill so famously said, “are doomed to repeat it.” Kathleen Turner hasn’t failed to learn her history, but she seems thrilled to repeat it—or at least portray one of its most memorable characters. Harrelson has even more screen time than Hunt, with the show trying to understand how misguided Hunt was. “White House Plumbers” grabs a few chuckles from how Hunt is only a layer away from Liddy's nuttiness or that he’s a dorky dad with a secret job.
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On the TV side he enjoys Only Murders in the Building, Yellowstone, The Boys, Game of Thrones and is always up for a Seinfeld rerun. Woody Harrelson is an Oscar and Emmy-nominated actor best known for his roles in True Detective, Cheers, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, The Hunger Games, Zombieland and White Men Can't Jump. Most recently he starred in the sports comedy Champions and was part of the cast of the Best Picture-nominated movie Triangle of Sadness. As Deadline revealed exclusively in January, Daniels opened up a development room to explore ideas for a follow-up series to the Emmy-winning The Office.
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Woody Harrelson plays his colleague, retired CIA officer E. Howard Hunt who along with Liddy organized the Watergate burglary. Sons of Anarchy actor Kim Coates is Frank Sturgis, another one of the five burglars involved in Watergate. In the '50s, Sturgis moved to Cuba and worked for Fidel Castro and as a CIA informant, and opened a training camp where he taught Che Guevarra guerilla warfare, then eventually defected and joined the anti-Castro opposition.
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It shows how the pair accidentally brought down the very presidency they had been trying to protect. Gordon Liddy, masterminded the burglary of the Democratic National Committee headquarters at Watergate. When they were arrested, a vast network of cover-ups and payoffs from Nixon's top brass followed in order to buy their silence—which obviously backfired. Hunt spent 33 months in prison for burglary, wiretapping, and conspiracy. Michael Balderston is a DC-based entertainment and assistant managing editor for What to Watch, who has previously written about the TV and movies with TV Technology, Awards Circuit and regional publications. Spending most of his time watching new movies at the theater or classics on TCM, some of Michael's favorite movies include Casablanca, Moulin Rouge!
Frank Sturgis was a police officer, private investigator, Marine and anti-communist recruited by Howard Hunt to assist with the Watergate break-in. Playing Sturgis in White House Plumbers is Kim Coates, best known for his roles in titles like Bad Blood, Sons of Anarchy, Goon and Godless. Jeb Magruder was a White House communications adviser during the Nixon administration as well as a deputy director for Nixon’s re-election committee, which ultimately gave him ties to the Plumbers and the Watergate break-in.
The actress, who plays Dita Beard, says, "you laugh, of course—until you remember it’s all true." Parts of White House Plumbers are laugh-out-loud outrageous – but other parts do make you feel for some of these people, and, of course, compare that scandal to more contemporary ones. All the President's Men is one of my favorite movies of all time — and White House Plumbers is good enough to be shown as a very long, all-Watergate double feature.
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Howard Hunt in the new HBO miniseries White House Plumbers. The show is directed and executive produced by Veep's David Mandel. Start from the beginning of the series and watch the first episode of White House Plumbers for free.
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He was also involved in a number of conspiracy theories surrounding the assassination of John F. Kennedy, including some he perpetuated himself. For his role in Watergate, he spent 14 months in prison. Another link to another assassination, that of Portuguese prime minister Francisco de Sá Carneiro. The Game of Thrones actress plays Dorothy Hunt, first wife of E. She was killed in December 1972, when United Airlines Flight 553 crashed en route from Washington to Omaha. Though it was ruled an accident, her presence on the flight (and the fact that she had $10,000 in cash on her) led to various Watergate-related conspiracy theories, including that the crash was planned by the CIA.
Judy starred in Two and a Half Men, 13 Going On 30, Ant-Man, and Jurassic World. She’s also due to appear in The First Lady, coming out this year, which tells the story of the presidents’ wives. White House Plumbers is based partly on public records and the book Integrity by Egil ‘Bud’ Krogh and Matthew Krogh. The show follows the two political saboteurs and Watergate masterminds E. It delves into their backstories and shows how they came to be behind the 1972 burglary of the Democratic National Committee HQ that was eventually traced back to President Nixon’s administration.
Among his other roles are the latest Star Wars trilogy, American Made, Brooklyn, Ex Machina and About Time. Woody Harrelson, Justin Theroux, Lena Headey, Judy Greer, Domhnall Gleeson and more headline this series premiering on HBO on May 1, but let's get to know who they are playing as well as more of the cast bringing these historical figures to life. I did of course check out what we know about Dita Beard, but to me it was more important that she was the trigger who opened up the bribery scandal to John Mitchell.
Their patriotism isn’t just inflating their hubris; it will get them in serious trouble. This Series tellls the story of how Nixon's political saboteurs & Watergate masterminds accidentally toppled the Presidency they were zealously trying to protect. In the UK, White House Plumbers starts on Tuesday May 30 at 9pm on Sky Atlantic. It's a five-episode series running weekly in the UK every Tuesday at the same time and also available as a box set from that day on Sky Box Sets and NOW. Gordon Liddy, an attorney and former FBI agent who was assigned to the White House Special Investigations unit known as 'The White House Plumbers'.
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