Daniel and the Towers

Daniel and The Towers is a television film 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 film portrays are factually based.

Distribution Information

The drama, under the WonderWorks Family Movie tag, came to television in 1987 and was released on VHS in 1992 .

Runtime: 61 min
Country: United States
Language: English
Color: Color

Awards

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".

Cast

In Credits Order

Actor/Actress	Role(s)
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

Crew

Writers

In Alphabetical Order

Anton Kline
Jessie Nelson
Camille Thomasson
Stephen Tolkin

Producers

Christopher Chase: Associate Producer
Judith James: Producer (as Judith Rutherford James)
Michael D. Pariser: Line Producer

Original Music

Dennis Dreith

Cinematography

Tom Hurwitz

Film Editing

Norman Hollyn

Casting

Vicki Hillman

Production Design

John Ivo Gilles

Costume Design

Heidi Freundlich Gilles (as Heidi Freundlich-Gilles)

Makeup Department

Marietta Carter-Narcisse: Hair Assistant (as Marietta Carter)
Marietta Carter-Narcisse: Makeup Assistant (as Marietta Carter)
Robin Siegel: Hair Stylist
Robin Siegel: Makeup Artist

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External links

Daniel and the Towers on IMDb

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