The Astronaut

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The Astronaut
Directed by	Robert Michael Lewis
Produced by	Harve Bennett
Written by	Harve Bennett Robert Biheller Gerald Di Pego Charles Kuenstle
Starring	Jackie Cooper Monte Markham
Music by	Gil Melle
Cinematography	Alric Edens
Editing by	Les Green John Kaufman
Distributed by	American Broadcasting Company
Release date(s)	January 8, 1972
Running time	73 mins
Country	The United States of America
Language	English
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The Astronaut is a 1972 science fiction film starring Jackie Cooper and directed by Robert Michael Lewis. This made for television film follows a man who has been hired to impersonate an astronaut who died during the first manned mission to Mars. Following the failure of the mission NASA (who fear their project will be cancelled) fool the public by having an actor given extensive surgery and faking the landing on Mars. Only his wife begins to suspect that the man claiming to be her husband may not be who he claims to be.

1 Cast
2 References
- 2.1 Bibliogrpahy
3 External links

[edit] Cast

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Actor	Role
Jackie Cooper	Kurt Anderson
Monte Markham	Eddie Reese
Monte Markham	Col. Brice Randolph
Richard Anderson	Dr. Wylie
Robert Lansing	John Phillips
Susan Clark	Gail Randolph
John Lupton	Don Masters
Walter Brooke	Tom Everett
James Sikking	Astronaut Higgins
Paul Kent	Carl Samuels
Loretta Leversee	Toni Scott
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