Daniel and The Towers is a Made-for-TV movie featuring the famous folk art masterpiece, the Watts Towers (located in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles), and their creator Simon Rodia's friendship with a 10-year-old neighborhood boy.
The story itself, and the friendship it describes, are fiction; however, Simon Rodia did build the towers. Some of the neighborhood situations that the movie portrays are factually based.
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The drama, under the WonderWorks Family Movie tag, came to television in 1987 and was released on VHS in 1992 .
The movie was nominated by the Young Artist Awards in 1988 as "Best Television Family Special, Movie of the Week or Variety Show" and Miguel Alamo was nominated for "Best Young Actor Starring in a Television Drama Special, Movie of the Week or Variety Show".
In Credits Order
Actor/Actress | Role(s) |
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Miguel Alamo | Daniel Guerra |
Shawn Harrison | Sean |
Jimmy Yung | Liko |
Allan Arbus | Simon 'Sam' Rodia |
Montrose Hagins | Hellen Littlefield |
Carmen Zapata | Consuelo Guerra |
Beulah Quo | Lynn Chow |
Michael McKean | Wexler Hatch |
Liam Sullivan | Commissioner |
Janice McElroy | Miss Williams |
Mary Lowitt | Customer At Store |
Steven Camarillo | Rude Vacho 1 |
Telly Bilbrew | Rude Vacho 2 |
Anthony James Guttierrez | Rude Vacho 3 |
John Outterbridge | Postman |
Tom Noble | Commissioner's Assistant |
In Alphabetical Order