Sunday Best: The Untold Story of Ed Sullivan - Cast

Sunday Best: The Untold Story of Ed Sullivan (2025)
TV-14
90 min | Documentary, Biography, History

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Sunday Best: The Untold Story of Ed Sullivan (2025)

TV-14

90 min | Documentary, Biography, History

Ed Sullivan broke barriers by booking Black artists on his Sunday night variety show. This documentary spotlights the TV pioneer's legacy of equality.

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26 cast members

Name	Known for
The Beatles Themselves (archive footage) Themselves (archive footage) See fewer	The Beatles: Get Back (2021)
Harry Belafonte Self Self See fewer	Bobby (I) (2006)
James Brown Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	The Blues Brothers (1980)
Diahann Carroll Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Julia (1968)
Johnny Carson Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962)
Nat 'King' Cole Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	The Nat King Cole Show (1956)
Sammy Davis Jr. Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	The Cannonball Run (1981)
Berry Gordy Self Self See fewer	Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)
Jackson 5 Themselves (archive footage) Themselves (archive footage) See fewer	Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)
Jackie Jackson Self Self See fewer	The Running Man (1987)
Mahalia Jackson Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Mississippi Burning (1988)
John F. Kennedy Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Profiles in Courage (1964)
Martin Luther King Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Freedom Writers (2007)
Gladys Knight Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Hollywood Homicide (2003)
Rosa Parks Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Touched by an Angel (1994)
Elvis Presley Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Girls! Girls! Girls! (1962)
Bill Robinson Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	The Little Colonel (1935)
Smokey Robinson Self Self See fewer	Big Time (1977)
Nina Simone Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Point of No Return (1993)
Ed Sullivan Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Bye Bye Birdie (1963)
The Supremes Themselves (archive footage) Themselves (archive footage) See fewer	The Sixth Sense (1999)
Tina Turner Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985)
Dionne Warwick Self Self See fewer	Alive (1993)
Otis Williams Self Self See fewer	Goodfellas (1990)
Oprah Winfrey Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	The Oprah Winfrey Show (1986)
Stevie Wonder Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Wild Wild West (1999)