Undercover with the KKK

Undercover with the KKK
Genre	Drama
Based on	My Undercover Years with the Ku Klux Klan by Gary Thomas Rowe Jr.
Screenplay by	Lane Slate
Directed by	Barry Shear
Starring	Don MeredithEd LauterClifton James
Music by	Morton Stevens
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
Production
Executive producer	Douglas Benton
Producers	George LehrDebra Miles
Production locations	Nevada City, CaliforniaRoseville, CaliforniaSacramento, California
Cinematography	Robert C. Moreno
Editor	Jack Kampschroer
Running time	97 minutes
Production company	Columbia Pictures Television
Original release
Network	NBC
Release	October 23, 1979 (1979-10-23)[1]

Undercover with the KKK is a 1979 NBCTV movie based on the autobiography My Undercover Years with the Ku Klux Klan by Gary Thomas Rowe Jr. and starring Don Meredith as Rowe.

Premise

The film tells the true story of Gary Thomas Rowe Jr., who infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan as an undercover FBI informant and then testified as a key witness for the prosecution during the trial of several other Klansmen.^[2][3]

Cast

• Don Meredith as FBI Agent Gary Thomas Rowe Jr.
• Ed Lauter as Raleigh Porter
• Clifton James as Jimmy Eakin
• Albert Salmi as Lester Mitchell
• Michele Carey as Mary Beth Barker
• Lance LeGault as "Weasel"
• Margaret Blye as Billie Ruth Rowe
• Edward Andrews as Pat Murray
• Slim Pickens as Yancey Hicks
• James Wainwright as T.J. Barker
• Don "Red" Barry as Ben Wright
• Ron Trice as Roscoe Cobb
• Carl Lumbly as Reverend Lowell
• Robert Stack as The Narrator

References

1. "Undercover with the KKK". IMDb.com. Retrieved 22 June 2019.
2. "Undercover With the KKK (1979) - Overview - TCM.com". Turner Classic Movies. Archived from the original on January 14, 2013. Retrieved 22 June 2019.
3. Kaufman, Michael T. (1998-10-04). "Gary T. Rowe Jr., 64, Who Informed on Klan In Civil Rights Killing, Is Dead". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2025-05-07.

External links

• Undercover with the KKK at IMDb